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Prisma raises $40M for its open source ‘Rosetta stone’ for database languages

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When it comes to building databases and other backend software development, different organizations and developers do not always speak the same language. Its open-source-based Prisma ORM, launched last year, now has more than 150,000 developers using it for Node.js to continue growing.

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PingCAP, the open-source developer behind TiDB, closes $270 million Series D

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PingCAP , the open-source software developer best known for NewSQL database TiDB, has raised a $270 million Series D. Its last round, a Series C of $50 million, was announced back in September 2018. TiDB developer PingCAP wants to expand in North America after raising $50M Series C.

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Ethyca raises $7.5M, open sources Fides for developers to build privacy tools directly into their codebases

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First, the New York-based startup is open sourcing a set of developer tools it has built, called Fides , so that developers can build privacy tools and monitoring mechanisms directly into their codebases. Second, it has picked up an additional $7.5 Ethyca founder and CEO, Cillian Kieran. Image Credits: Ethyca.

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The State of the Octoverse: new open source projects in 2018

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This article is part of a series based on our 2018 State of the Octoverse report —trends and insights into GitHub activity, the open source community, and more from the GitHub Data Science Team. In 2018 alone, we saw more new users than in our first six years combined, and we celebrated hosting over 100 million repositories.

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VCs are betting big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 reasons why

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But what was once solely an internal project at Google has since been open-sourced and has become one of the most talked about technologies in software development and operations. The truth is, very few software developers truly understand how Kubernetes works under the hood. For good reason.

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Endor emerges from stealth with $25M to secure software supply chains

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An increasing percentage of the code that companies use to develop software is open source. In a 2018 survey by Tidelift, a software supply chain management platform, 92% of professional software developers said that their apps contained open source libraries.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others. In 2018, DeepMind, now a subsidiary of Alphabet, developed AlphaFold, a deep learning system that learns from a database of existing proteins and predicts their 3D structures.