TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Tracking the growth and frequency of open source startups has been a long-running project at TechCrunch. This column joined the fun in the last few years , noting what seemed to be a rising wave of startups building open source projects that they later monetized. Confluent was one. Hashicorp was another.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Victoria Melnikova Contributor Share on Twitter Alongside fellow Evil Martians , Victoria Melnikova builds devtools and commercial open source products and writes about her journey in tech. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work. . Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the world. Image Credits: Tea.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 31, 2023

is an open source tool that collects data about an application's code to aid debugging, troubleshooting and optimization efforts. Grafana Labs' Pyroscope 1.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Now the team behind creating Conductor are launching Orkes , a cloud-hosted version of the tool based on Conductor; and along with this, they’re announcing $9.3 million in funding to fuel the mission, as well as to support the continued growth of the open-source Conductor community.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

CloudQuery , an early-stage startup, wanted to make it easier, and built an open source tool to do the work for you. CloudQuery CEO and co-founder Yevgeny Pats said that on a high level, “We are an open source, cloud assets inventory [tool] powered by SQL.” He set out to build that tool.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English. Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.

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DevOps.com

MAY 10, 2023

At the Open Source Summit North America conference today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is making Cedar, a language for defining permissions as policies that includes automated reasoning to mathematically prove an IT environment is secure, available as an open source project.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So despite the broader downturn , it seems that 2022 may have been relatively kind to startups operating in the no- and low-code sphere, something that fledgling Northern Irish startup Budibase is capitalizing on with the announcement of a fresh $7 million tranche of funding to further develop an open source web app builder.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Kobiton is open sourcing a script generation tool for the Appium automation framework that automates the running of test scripts.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While DevOps is foremost a way of collaborating, a lot of it is shaped by tools. And it turns out that many popular DevOps tools, such as Prometheus, Argo, Grafana, KubeFlow and Jenkins, are open source software (OSS). For example, logging tool Log4j has been in murky waters since last year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When users on websites and apps find they have problems, developers have various tools to record what they are doing in order to find out what went wrong. Meanwhile, developers are using open source solutions, but these have their drawbacks. OpenReplay is a great example of such an approach.”.

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InfoWorld

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meta has introduced Purple Llama, a project dedicated to creating open-source tools for developers to evaluate and boost the trustworthiness and safety of generative AI models before they are used publicly.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Founded out of Berlin in 2021, Qdrant is targeting AI software developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data, which is an integral part of AI application development particularly as it relates to using real-time data that hasn’t been categorized or labeled. That Qdrant has now raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Merchants building businesses on giant marketplaces often have to think inside the marketplace’s box, but Medusa , a one-year-old e-commerce startup from Denmark, is going after e-commerce platforms, like Shopify and WooCommerce, with its open source alternative aimed at the JavaScript developer community.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

An update to the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) open source dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool made available today improves performance by employing a multi-threaded passive scanner engine. The post Update to Open Source ZAP Tool Improves DAST Performance appeared first on DevOps.com.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 16, 2023

System Initiative is making the digital twin tool it developed to manage DevOps workflows available under an open source Apache 2.0 license.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Software is just like any other product you build and ship; it relies on using components that others have built, often in the form of source code, and making sure that it doesn’t break or have weaknesses that compromise the final product. That also means a reliance on trusting that the developers will always act in good faith.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2).

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DevOps.com

JUNE 23, 2023

Integral this week launched an open source Robin AI project that leverages OpenAI's generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) platform to review code changes and provide constructive feedback.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Companies producing software are becoming ever more reliant on open source databases to build their programs, but it’s complex working with all these different products. Instaclustr , a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases delivered as a service.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 11, 2021

The post 7 Popular Open Source CI/CD Tools appeared first on DevOps.com. It focuses on integration of development and operations teams, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and automation of tasks and processes. Typically, DevOps teams use pipelines to streamline and standardize processes.

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DevOps.com

MAY 9, 2022

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has made available a prototype of a package analysis tool that has already identified more than 200 malicious packages uploaded to PyPI and npm software components. The post OpenSSF Adds Open Source Package Analysis Tool Prototype appeared first on DevOps.com.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 12, 2021

DevOps isn’t just a cultural shift — it requires great tools to come to fruition. Below, we’ve pulled together a list of some of the most well-loved DevOps tools available today. These DevOps tools all are open source, and […].

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DevOps.com

JUNE 20, 2022

Coder today launched an open source project that gives developers and data scientists a way to create cloud workspaces in a matter of minutes to make it easier to build applications and models faster. The post Open Source Coder Tool Helps Devs Build Cloud Spaces appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechBeacon

MARCH 31, 2021

For container security, you'll find plenty of open-source tools that can help prevent a debacle such as the one that befell Tesla, which suffered a Kubernetes cluster breach. But container security is still tricky, so you need to know which utilities to add to your arsenal.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Successful companies such as Hashicorp, JFrog, Elastic, MongoDB and Gitlab have demonstrated the power of open source models. Effectively, open source startups need to build two product road maps and companies. Effectively, open source startups need to build two product road maps and companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Tea , an open source unified package manager for software developers, today announced it has added another $8.9 Tea is the brainchild of Max Howell , creator of popular open source package manager Homebrew , and Timothy Lewis.

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DevOps.com

JUNE 15, 2023

Developer experience (DX) is becoming more and more of a competitive advantage among developer-facing tools and platforms. A great developer experience that’s easy to follow and implement can truly help a software tool stand out from the crowd. Simultaneously, open source software is all the rage.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Creating a great customer experience requires a lot of data from a variety of sources, and pulling that disparate data together has captured the attention of companies and big and small from Salesforce and Adobe to Segment and Klaviyo. For now the company is taking an open source approach to build a community around the tool.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors. But otherwise, we’ll use existing tools.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story. He created a tool to do this called Hudi , which Uber donated to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project the following year. But then you were limited by the size of the data.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Many application performance monitoring tools (also referred to as application performance monitoring), come with a hefty price tag to cover licensing fees. But there are plenty of open-source APM alternatives to consider if you're just getting started — and these tools may also complement commercial alternatives.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Cisco has launched an open source project, dubbed FunctionClarity, that makes it possible to verify signatures before code is deployed in a serverless computing environment. The post Cisco Adds Open Source Tool to Validate Serverless Functions appeared first on DevOps.com.

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