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 platform by the name of Datastax Luna Streaming, which is now generally available.
This move comes right as Datastax is also now, for the first time, announcing that it is cash-flow positive and profitable, as the company’s chief product officer, Ed Anuff, told me. “We are at over $150 million in [annual recurring revenue]. We are cash-flow positive and we are profitable,” he told me. This marks the first time the company is publically announcing this data. In addition, the company al
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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 Recordon s career. He managed several open-source projects at Facebook, where he also served as open programs manager. These included the Phabricator code review tools the company uses internally and the Apache Cassandra distributed database. His team also created HipHop, a system that transforms source code from PHP to C++.
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