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Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase alternative

TechCrunch

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors. Some of them we built ourselves.

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Neon nabs $30M to build a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases

TechCrunch

Postgres, also known as PostgreSQL, is an open source database management system launched in 1996 as the successor to a database developed at UC Berkeley called Ingres. Neon provides a cloud serverless Postgres service, including a free tier, with compute and storage that scale dynamically.

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DataCore Debuts Enterprise-Grade Container-Native Storage Software for Higher Performance and Scalability

DevOps.com

The post DataCore Debuts Enterprise-Grade Container-Native Storage Software for Higher Performance and Scalability appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Inferencing holds the clues to AI puzzles

CIO

As with many data-hungry workloads, the instinct is to offload LLM applications into a public cloud, whose strengths include speedy time-to-market and scalability. Inferencing funneled through RAG must be efficient, scalable, and optimized to make GenAI applications useful.

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Is Open-Source Kubernetes Free? Yes, “Like a Puppy.” Here’s Why.

d2iq

The common misconception of open-source Kubernetes is that it is free—but in reality, it has a lot of associated costs, including labor and potential business losses from wasted time, effort, and being late to market. Assembling and managing a Kubernetes platform requires highly skilled Kubernetes architects, engineers, and developers.

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History of MongoDB

The Crazy Programmer

MongoDB and is the open-source server product, which is used for document-oriented storage. Their initial development was mainly focused on building Platform as a Service, soon MongoDB came out as the open-source server that was very well- maintained by the organization. The new name was MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Inc.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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