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A young startup is setting out to help enterprises cut their cloud costs by writing "more efficient" code -- and it has secured $6.8 million in fresh funding from notable backers including Alphabet's GV, Spark Capital and Lightspeed. Polar Signals, as the company is called, kicked off its seed round back in 2021 with $4 million from GV and Lightspeed, and it's now closing the round out at $10.8 million. The problem that Polar Signals is looking to solve is this: Application...

I saw an opportunity to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions. Actuated is now in pilot and aims to solve most if not all of the friction.

A year ago, inside of the corporate leviathan Alphabet, Black Googlers and other Black Alphabet employees were invited to some informal programming around angel investing during Black History Month. It was organized by employees so that anyone interested could learn a bit more about how startup deals are structured, the typical timeline for a possible […]

In the coming year, organizations will seek to simplify, optimize, and consolidate observability through a mix of new tools and practices.

The importance of observability has been well established, with organizations relying on metrics, logs, and traces to help detect, diagnose, and isolate problems in their environments. But, like most things in IT, observability is continuing to evolve rapidly – both in terms of how people define it and how they are working to improve observability […]

Parca takes the observability industry forward by measuring code performance for everyone Polar Signals, a company dedicated to helping organizations measure and understand infrastructure and application