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GitLab-spinoff Meltano raises another $8.2M for its open-source DataOps platform

TechCrunch

As Meltano CEO and GitLab veteran Douwe Maan told me, the original idea behind Meltano was to build an end-to-end data platform, but then the team narrowed its focus back to ELT again between 2020 and 2021, with the Singer open-source ELT tool as its core component. Now, with this new funding as a basis and the launch of Meltano 2.0

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The Business of Open Source

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It was a fascinating discussion, with important implications for open source companies and their business models. The behavior of major cloud companies, such as Amazon, has increasingly stirred up angst and fear in open source companies. Hadoop is the “open core,” the island on which the company was built.

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Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

TechCrunch

With the investment, the company will build a “quality-assured” manufacturing marketplace, as well as mirrored servers in China to open access to its hardware capital, Shenzhen. The “impact” aspect of Wikifactory’s playbook is that it involves less shipping and less costly inventories being required.

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8 Most in Demand Programming Languages of 2021

The Crazy Programmer

It is frequently used in developing web applications, data science, machine learning, quality assurance, cyber security and devops. It is a free, open source, programming language that has quality frameworks, extensive training material, a friendly developer community and user-friendly data structures.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

TechCrunch

Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019. But Perl makes the case that QA Wolf removes the complexity of quality assurance testing like few others do. ” QA Wolf promises a lot.

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Codenotary raises $12.5M Series B to secure software supply chains

TechCrunch

Codenotary , a service that makes it easier for development teams to build transparent software supply chains (and also the company behind the popular open source immudb immutable database), today announced that it has raised a $12.5 million Series B round from new and existing investors like Bluwat, Elaia and others.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO

Weve also seen the emergence of agentic AI, multi-modal AI, reasoning AI, and open-source AI projects that rival those of the biggest commercial vendors. Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either.