The Graph: An open-source query protocol for blockchains, using GraphQL

Querying blockchains is hard, but it does not have to be. This is the vision driving The Graph.
Read More →Chainlink launches Mainnet to get data in and out of Ethereum smart contracts

Smart contracts promise to take execution of processes and agreements to the Ethereum global computer. There's just one problem: Smart contracts can't talk to the rest of the world. Chainlink wants to solve this, starting today.
Read More →On the Rookout for live data: Instant observability to fix software bugs and open AI black boxes

Getting data to debug your code while running in production, without stopping or redeploying it. Whatever you may be running, wherever you may be running it. And now, with support for open source machine learning frameworks Apache Spark and Tensorflow added to the mix. This is what startup Rookout promises.
Read More →A standard for storing big data? Apache Spark creators release open-source Delta Lake

From data lakes to data swamps and back again. Data reliability, as in transactional support, is one of the pain-points keeping organizations from getting the most out of their data lakes. Delta Lake is here to address this.
Read More →Graphs in the cloud. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: April 2019

The first sign of convergence in the graph space is here. Graph databases continue to grow, expand, and make their way to the cloud, a number of open source frameworks for working with graphs has been released, and a slew of new interesting use cases. Read the full article on the Year of the Graph
Read More →Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL

Tired of using many databases? FaunaDB wants to be the all-in-one solution for polyglot persistence in the cloud and on premise, and it just got SQL, GraphQL, and CQL
Read More →Run:AI takes your AI and runs it, on the super-fast software stack of the future

Startup Run:AI exits stealth, promises a software layer to abstract over many AI chips
Read More →Safety in data: Implementing data-driven road safety

Using data to improve road safety sounds like a good idea, but the devil is in the details.
Read More →The new Cloudera-Hortonworks Hadoop: 100 percent open source, 50 percent boring

How do you bring Hadoop to the AI, hybrid, and multi cloud era, making it so easy to use and reliable that it's boring? How do you build a sustainable business doing that, while switching to a 100-percent open source model? The new Cloudera raises more questions than it offers answers at this point
Read More →Nvidia GPUs for data science, analytics, and distributed machine learning using Python with Dask

Nvidia wants to extend the success of the GPU beyond graphics and deep learning to the full data science experience. Open source Python library Dask is the key to this.
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