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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

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In practical terms, this takes the form of an open source API that enables users to convert the data (video, audio, etc) into a mathematical representation that machines can understand. He says that there are 55 contributors to the open source project and 700 community members overall. Activeloop image database.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire

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TechCrunch Senior Writer Romain Dillet interviewed Jill Wetzler, VP of Engineering at Pilot, and Preeti Somal, EVP of Engineering at HashiCorp , to learn more about how they evaluate third-party vendors, select open-source components and think ahead with regard to engineering capabilities. And accumulate.

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Observability startup Better Stack lands $18.6M in new cash

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too many tools) as the top blockers, as well as concerns about open source tools. Masar, who serves as Better Stack’s CEO, said that the funding will be put toward hiring with the goal of expanding the team from 14 to about 30 people by the end of the year. But there’s room for improvement.

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How do you select the right tech stack?

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So to help founders understand what a good tech stack should look like, we invited two experts on this topic, Preeti Somal , the EVP of Engineering at HashiCorp and Jill Wetzler , the VP of Engineering at Pilot , to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 to discuss everything from evaluating vendors to making sure you can rely on an open source product.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

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Image Credits: Dilok Klaisataporn (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. As founders find themselves fielding ample investor interest, accelerators are changing how they invest, what they offer to their cohorts, and how they maximize value and attract top talent, reports Natasha Mascarenhas.

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Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020

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Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed source projects at companies of all sizes. Our environment allows developers to find solutions that have already been developed.

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The State of the Octoverse 2019

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We’ve also seen that software development is, increasingly, a community endeavor as it becomes easier to find and build on work from others around the world. And some of the top open source projects not only have thousands of contributors—they’re dependencies for millions of repositories. million other repositories this year.