Published in Memory Leak·Aug 5Memory Leak — 8/5/2022VC Astasia Myers’ perspectives on machine learning, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, open source, and security. Sign up here. 🚀 Products Dagger for VS Code Dagger, the portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines, released a VS Code extension with proper Language Server support for CUE. This extension makes it easier to develop Dagger automations…Developer3 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Jul 29Memory Leak — 7/29/2022VC Astasia Myers’ perspectives on machine learning, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, open source, and security. 🚀 Products LiteFS Released in Alpha Created by Ben Johnson, LiteFS is a file system that can replicate SQLite databases across a cluster of machines. …Dev2 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Aug 18, 2021Preset Cloud — The Visualization Layer for the Modern Data StackAt Redpoint, we believe the 2020s will be the decade of data. Today, we’re announcing our partnership with Preset.io, a company providing the visualization layer for the modern data stack. In addition, Preset.io announces Preset Cloud, a fully hosted cloud service for Apache Superset, is generally available. Preset provides a…Data2 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Aug 10, 2021ML Data Management — A PrimerA machine learning (ML) model’s performance is determined by code and data. When trying to improve a ML model you can write better code, increase testing, or improve the data itself. The ML space is maturing with more companies pushing models to production than ever before. With this shift…AI4 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Jun 28, 2021Couchbase’s S-1 Analysis — Sofa, So Good🛋️Open source NoSQL database company Couchbase recently filed its S-1 with $100M as a placeholder for the offering. Couchbase competes against publicly traded MongoDB and has 549 customers generating $108.2M in revenue over the last twelve months, up 24% YoY. Originally incorporated in 2008 as NorthScale, the group changed…Venture Capital8 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Jun 3, 2021Confluent’s S-1 Analysis — Forward Motion ⏩Data in motion company Confluent recently filed its S-1 with $100M as a placeholder for the offering. Confluent pioneered the category of streaming data infrastructure based on the founders’ Apache Kafka project created at LinkedIn in 2011. Kafka enables real-time data from multiple sources to constantly stream across the…Data9 min read
Published in Memory Leak·May 18, 2021Product-Led Growth (PLG) CRM — A PrimerOver the past two decades Salesforce has transformed the customer relationship management (CRM) space by moving software from on premise to the cloud. With the movement to cloud data warehouse as the central repository of customer data and to Product-Led Growth (PLG) business models, Salesforce’s core business is ripe…Customer5 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Apr 27, 2021Data Pipelining — A PrimerData pipelining is the act of moving data from one location to another and is one of the most critical operations in data infrastructure. Data pipelines are a superset of Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and modern ELT. Additional data pipeline technologies include reverse ETL and integration and workflow automation…Data4 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Apr 6, 2021Documentation Best PracticesLast Wednesday, I hosted Pavi Sandhu to discuss the importance of building and maintaining good developer documentation. Pavi has more than 20 years of experience leading documentation and user education initiatives at companies such as Salesforce, Amazon, Mesosphere, and MongoDB. Pavi co-founded Salesforce’s learning platform, Trailhead, which now has…Development5 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Mar 23, 2021Demo Experience Platforms — A PrimerDemos can be problematic. Even the best teams can suffer from bad demos like when Bill Gates presented Windows 98 and saw the “Blue Screen of Death” to Steve Jobs being unable to connect the iPhone to Wi-Fi. No wonder demo anxiety is real. Sadly, demos often fail because…Sales4 min read
