IOTA is bringing smart contracts with zero fees, Ethereum interoperability, and compatibility for next-gen distributed apps

IOTA is unveiling its smart contracts, with a clear onboarding path and many interesting features for developers.
Read More →The state of AI in 2021: Machine learning in production, MLOps and data-centric AI

With lessons learned from operationalizing AI, the emphasis is shifting from shiny new models to perhaps more mundane, but practical aspects such as data quality and data pipeline management
Read More →Open source backend as a service Appwrite gets $10M seed funding to commercialize traction

Appwrite, an open source platform that offers a slew of features to developers, aims to capitalize on its grass-roots popularity
Read More →An AI-powered revenue operating system for aviation and beyond: FLYR Labs Lands $150 Million in Series C Funding

A multi-trillion dollar business in crisis, upending incumbents, unfettered ambition, and pragmatic deep learning. FLYR's story has it all.
Read More →Apollo GraphQL announces $130 Million Series D Funding, wants to define its own category

GraphQL is a specification that came at just the right time to address an age-old issue in software engineering: service integration. Apollo's implementation is seeing lots of traction, and it just got more gas in the tank for its grand vision that goes well beyond integration
Read More →Amazon Neptune update: Machine learning, data science, and the future of graph databases

Amazon Neptune just added another query language, openCypher, to its arsenal. That may not sound like a big deal in and of itself, but coupled with updates in machine learning and data science features, it points towards the future of graph databases.
Read More →The biggest investment in database history, the biggest social network ever, and other graph stories from Neo4j

A $325 million Series F funding round, bringing Neo4j's valuation to over $2 billion. A social network of 3 billion people, distributed across 1000 servers. The latter is a demo; the former is not. But both are real signs that the graph market and Neo4j are getting huge.
Read More →Superconductive scores $21M Series A funding to sustain growth of its Great Expectations open source framework for data quality

Ensuring data quality is essential for analytics, data science and machine learning. Superconductive's Great Expectations open source framework wants to do for data quality what test-driven development did for software quality
Read More →It’s all about the data: Explorium’s bet pays off in $75M Series C funding

Data science and machine learning are being commoditized, so it's the datasets that make the difference in the end. That's the thesis startup Explorium is capitalizing on.
Read More →OtterTune sets out to auto tune all the databases

Tuning databases is key to application performance and stability, but it's a hard job. Auto-tuning helps, but it was reserved for the Oracles and Microsofts of the world till now. OtterTune wants to democratize this capability
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