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 →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 →Open-source growth and venture capital investment: Data, databases, challenges, and opportunities

Open-source software used to be poorly understood by commercial forces, and it's often approached in a biased way. A new generation of investment funds goes to show that things are changing.
Read More →More than words: Shedding light on the data terminology mess

Data management, data governance, data observability, data fabric, data mesh, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps. It's a data terminology mess out there. Let's try and untangle it, because there's more to words than lingo.
Read More →Graphs as a foundational technology stack: Analytics, AI, and hardware

How would you feel if you saw demand for your favorite topic — which also happens to be your line of business — grow 1,000% in just two years’ time? Vindicated, overjoyed, and a bit overstretched in trying to keep up with demand, probably.
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
Read More →Open-source software economics and community health analytics: Enter CHAOSS

Trying to capture the value open-source software generates can be a bit chaotic. The CHAOSS project may lend a helping hand.
Read More →Weaviate is an open-source search engine powered by ML, vectors, graphs, and GraphQL

Google uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not. Weaviate wants to change that.
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