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Explosion snags $6M on $120M valuation to expand machine learning platform

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Explosion, a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. The round was led by SignalFire, and the company reported that today’s investment represents 5% of its value. Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be […] Continue reading Explosion snags $6M on $120M valuation to expand machine learning platform→

Harness snags $85M Series C on $1.7B valuation as revenue grows 3x

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Harness, the startup that wants to create a suite of engineering tools to give every company the kind of technological reach that the biggest companies have, announced an $85 million Series C today on a $1.7 billion valuation. Today’s round comes after 2019’s $60 million Series B, which had a $500 million valuation, showing a […] Continue reading Harness snags $85M Series C on $1.7B valuation as revenue grows 3x→

AWS introduces new Chaos Engineering as a Service offering

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When large companies like Netflix or Amazon want to test the resilience of their systems, they use chaos engineering tools designed to help them simulate worst-case scenarios and find potential issues before they even happen. Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels introduced the company’s Chaos Engineering as a Service offering called AWS Fault […] Continue reading AWS introduces new Chaos Engineering as a Service offering→

Redpoint and Sequoia are backing a startup to copy edit your shit code

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Code is the lifeblood of the modern world, yet the tooling for some programming environments can be remarkably spartan. While developers have long had access to graphical programming environments (IDEs) and performance profilers and debuggers, advanced products to analyze and improve lines of code have been harder to find. These days, the most typical tool […] Continue reading Redpoint and Sequoia are backing a startup to copy edit your shit code→

Atlassian Smarts adds machine learning layer across the company’s platform of services

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Atlassian has been offering collaboration tools, often favored by developers and IT for some time with such stalwarts as Jira for help desk tickets, Confluence to organize your work and BitBucket to organize your development deliverables, but what it lacked was machine learning layer across the platform to help users work smarter within and across […] Continue reading Atlassian Smarts adds machine learning layer across the company’s platform of services→

Adobe beefs up developer tools to make it easer to build apps on Experience Cloud

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Adobe has had a developer program for years called Adobe.io, but today at the Adobe Developers Live virtual conference, the company announced some new tools with a fresh emphasis on helping developers build custom apps on the Adobe Experience Cloud. Jason Woosley, VP of developer experience and commerce at Adobe says that the pandemic has […] Continue reading Adobe beefs up developer tools to make it easer to build apps on Experience Cloud→

Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise

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When we last reported on Snyk in January, eons ago in COVID time, the company announced $150 million investment on a valuation of over $1 billion. Today, barely nine months later, it announced another $200 million and its valuation has expanded to $2.6 billion. The company is obviously drawing some serious investor attention and even […] Continue reading Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise→

Progress snags software automation platform Chef for $220M

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Progress, a Boston area developer tool company, boosted its offerings in a big way today when it announced it was acquiring software automation platform Chef for $220 million. Chef, which went 100% open source last year, had annual recurring revenue (ARR) of $70 million from the commercial side of the house. Needless to say, Progress […] Continue reading Progress snags software automation platform Chef for $220M→

A pandemic and recession won’t stop Atlassian’s SaaS push

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No company is completely insulated from the macroeconomic fallout of COVID-19, but we are seeing some companies fare better than others, especially those providing ways to collaborate online. Count Atlassian in that camp, as it provides a suite of tools focused on working smarter in a digital context. At a time when many employees are […] Continue reading A pandemic and recession won’t stop Atlassian’s SaaS push→

Harness makes first acquisition, snagging open source CI company Drone.io

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Harness has made a name for itself creating tools like continuous delivery (CD) for software engineers to give them the kind of power that has been traditionally reserved for companies with large engineering teams like Google, Facebook and Netflix. Today, the company announced it has acquired Drone.io, an open source continuous integration (CI) company, marking […] Continue reading Harness makes first acquisition, snagging open source CI company Drone.io→