Category Archives: serverless computing

Aqua Security raises $135M at a $1B valuation for its cloud native security service

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Aqua Security, a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based security startup that focuses squarely on securing cloud-native services, today announced that it has raised a $135 million Series E funding round at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by ION Crossover Partners. Existing investors M12 Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, TLV Partners, Greenspring Associates […] Continue reading Aqua Security raises $135M at a $1B valuation for its cloud native security service→

Microsoft’s Dapr open-source project to help developers build cloud-native apps hits 1.0

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Dapr, the Microsoft-incubated open-source project that aims to make it easier for developers to build event-driven, distributed cloud-native applications, hit its 1.0 milestone today, signifying the project’s readiness for production use cases. Microsoft launched the Distributed Application Runtime (that’s what “Dapr” stand for) back in October 2019. Since then, the project released 14 updates and […] Continue reading Microsoft’s Dapr open-source project to help developers build cloud-native apps hits 1.0→

Dataloop raises $11M Series A round for its AI data management platform

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Dataloop, a Tel Aviv-based startup that specializes in helping businesses manage the entire data lifecycle for their AI projects, including helping them annotate their datasets, today announced that it has now raised a total of $16 million. This includes a $5 seed round that was previously unreported, as well as an $11 million Series A […] Continue reading Dataloop raises $11M Series A round for its AI data management platform→

Microsoft brings data services to its Arc multi-cloud management service

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Microsoft today launched a major update to its Arc multi-cloud service that allows Azure customers to run and manage workloads across clouds — including those of Microsoft’s competitors — and their on on-premises data centers. First announced at Microsoft Ignite in 2019, Arc was always meant to not just help users manage their servers but […] Continue reading Microsoft brings data services to its Arc multi-cloud management service→

Google Cloud launches its Business Application Platform based on Apigee and AppSheet

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Unlike some of its competitors, Google Cloud has recently started emphasizing how its large lineup of different services can be combined to solve common business problems. Instead of trying to sell individual services, Google is focusing on solutions and the latest effort here is what it calls its Business Application Platform, which combines the API […] Continue reading Google Cloud launches its Business Application Platform based on Apigee and AppSheet→

Vendia raises $5.1M for its multi-cloud serverless platform

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When the inventor of AWS Lambda, Tim Wagner, and the former head of blockchain at AWS, Shruthi Rao, co-found a startup, it’s probably worth paying attention. Vendia, as the new venture is called, combines the best of serverless and blockchain to help build a truly multi-cloud serverless platform for better data and code sharing. Today, […] Continue reading Vendia raises $5.1M for its multi-cloud serverless platform→

4 enterprise developer trends that will shape 2021

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It’s time to shift focus from delivering software to delighting customers. Welcome to a new era of modern software delivery. Continue reading 4 enterprise developer trends that will shape 2021→

Pulumi brings support for more languages to its infrastructure-as-code platform

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Seattle-based Pulumi has quickly made a name for itself as a modern platform that lets developers specify their infrastructure through writing code in their preferred programming language — and not YAML. With the launch of Pulumi 2.0, those languages now include JavaScript, TypeScript, Go and .NET, in addition to its original support for Python. It’s […] Continue reading Pulumi brings support for more languages to its infrastructure-as-code platform→

AWS launches discounted spot capacity for its Fargate container platform

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AWS today quietly brought spot capacity to Fargate, its serverless compute engine for containers that supports both the company’s Elastic Container Service and, now, its Elastic Kubernetes service. Like spot instances for the EC2 compute platform, Fargate Spot pricing is significantly cheaper, both for storage and compute, than regular Fargate pricing. In return, though, you […] Continue reading AWS launches discounted spot capacity for its Fargate container platform→

New Relic snags early stage serverless monitoring startup IOpipe

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As we move from a world dominated by virtual machines to one of serverless, it changes the nature of monitoring, and vendors like New Relic certainly recognize that. This morning the company announced it was acquiring IOpipe, an early-stage Seattle serverless monitoring startup to help beef up its serverless monitoring chops. Terms of the deal […] Continue reading New Relic snags early stage serverless monitoring startup IOpipe→