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New Episodes Return Today Focusing on How to Spark Transformation, Overcome Challenges and Celebrate Innovation SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DataStax today announced the second season of the Inspired Execution podcast. Inspired Execution features global technology leaders on their journeys to scaling multi-billion dollar businesses, while inspiring their teams. Each episode will focus on recurring themes conveyed through guest’s stories including customer experiences, speed & agili...

The big story: Microsoft unveils Mesh for AR/VR meetings Mesh is a platform that allows for shared meetings between Microsoft’s HoloLens (augmented reality) and Windows Mixed Reality (virtual reality). Lucas Matney describes it as “pretty standard faire” for spatial computing, but noted that this will also serve as a platform for developers to build their own applications. The tech giants Uber spins out delivery robot startup as Serve Robotics — Postmates X, the robotics division of the...

DataStax is sticking true to its aim of making its cloud-based Database-as-a-Service as easy to use as possible, by making Astra serverless.

2 months ago Distributed database enables mission-critical applications to run at scale with enterprise-grade SLAs and security SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yugabyte, the leader in open source distributed SQL databases, today announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.4 with hardened enterprise-grade security features, enhanced multi-region deployment capabilities, and performance improvements. The newest iteration of Yugabyte’s open source dat...

Epoch time transformer now supports timezones Copy As SQL: now uses correct SQL dialect Metadata editor: support of pure unicode identifiers was added Content assistant was fixed for drop-down selectors Connection configuration import now supports target folders GIS (spatial) data viewer: 3D geometry objects now can be displayed on map Geometry transformer for binary format (WKB) was added Trino (ex-PrestoSQL) driver was added (thanks to @mosabua) MariaDB: default driver version upgraded to 2.7...

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Who gets credit for open source success? Like so many winning projects, Weaveworks’ Cortex is the result of a long and winding chain of open source inspiration and innovation Credit: Dreamstime Over 2000 years ago the Roman historian Tacitus observed that “Victory is claimed by all”—or, as some translations put it, ...

Datastax acquires Kesque as it gets into data streaming Datastax, the company best known for commercializing the open-source Apache Cassandra database, is moving beyond databases. As the company announced today, it has acquired Kesque, a cloud messaging service. The Kesque team built its service on top of the Apache Pulsar messaging and streaming project. Datastax has now taken that team’s knowledge in this area and, combined with its own expertise, is launching its own Pulsar-based streaming...

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Recordon also served as engineering director at Facebook from 2009 to 2015 and again from 2017 to 2018, after his first period at the White House. Most recently, he was vice president for infrastructure and security at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a Zuckerberg family nonprofit that tackles social issues with technology. Open source plays a big part in Recordons career. He managed several open-source projects at Facebook, where he also served as open programs manager. These included the Phabr...

To get to that Prometheus service a number of different companies and open source communities played a part: SoundCloud, which gave birth to Prometheus; Hyperic, the inspiration behind Cortex (by way of Scope); SpringSource, which recognized the business value in monitoring. Oh, and at the center of everything, Weaveworks, the company perhaps best known for GitOps but which also created Cortex. Buried in the history of Cortex is a lesson in apportioning open source credit. The tl;dr? It’s com...