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 →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 →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 →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 →Open source AI stack is ready for its moment

Open source stacks enabled software to eat the world. Now several innovative companies are working to build a similar open source software stack for AI development.
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.
Read More →Databases, graphs, and GraphQL: The past, present, and future

GraphQL was never conceived as a query language for databases. Yet, it's increasingly being used for this purpose. Here's why, and how.
Read More →IOTA still wants to build a better blockchain and get it right this time

In 2014, IOTA set out to offer an alternative to the key issues with blockchain: Scalability and transaction fees. Somewhere along the way, things went wrong. Not everything is lost, however, and IOTA is looking to regain momentum.
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