Published in Memory Leak·PinnedReverse ETL — A PrimerData infrastructure has gone through an incredible evolution over the past three years. We have moved from Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) to ELT, where raw data is copied from the source system loaded into a data warehouse or data lake and then transformed. Now teams are adopting yet another…Data5 min readData5 min read
Published in Memory Leak·PinnedThe JAMstack: It’s Pretty SweetThe JAMstack represents a major trend in web development. Coined by Mathias Biilmann, the CEO of Netlify, the JAMstack is “a modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup.” The JAMstack offers an alternative to the LAMP and MEAN stacks and has some advantages like…JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
Published in Memory Leak·PinnedData Orchestration — A PrimerData scientists and data engineers are responsible for authoring data pipelines and workflows. Historically individuals wrote cron jobs to orchestrate data but today there are data orchestration frameworks that allow them to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor data pipelines. …Data5 min readData5 min read
Published in Memory Leak·PinnedData 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 readData4 min read
Published in Memory Leak·6 days agoMemory Leak — #19VC Astasia Myers’ perspectives on machine learning, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, open source, and security. Sign up here. 🚀 Products Dragonfly 1.0 Dragonfly is a drop-in Redis replacement that can scale vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance. Dragonfly 1.0 comes with…AI4 min readAI4 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Mar 21Our Investment in DragonflyDBVC Astasia Myers’ perspectives on machine learning, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, open source, and security. Sign up here. In our current TikTok era users have ever increasing expectations of application performance and responsiveness. Applications that are fast receive superior product reviews and outperform the competition, while those that feel sluggish…Open Source3 min readOpen Source3 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Feb 24Memory Leak — #18VC Astasia Myers’ perspectives on machine learning, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, open source, and security. Sign up here. 🚀 Products PromptLayer PromptRegistry Why does this matter? PromptLayer argues that prompts are the new gold, and the most important part of any LLM app. With the rise of prompt engineering we’ve seen…Data3 min readData3 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Feb 17Memory Leak — #17VC Astasia Myers’ perspectives on machine learning, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, open source, and security. Sign up here. 🚀 Products Coda AI: A Sneak Peek Coda started a waitlist for its alpha version of Coda AI that summarize meeting notes & transcripts in a snap using GPT3. …Data4 min readData4 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Feb 10Memory Leak — #16VC Astasia Myers’ perspectives on machine learning, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, open source, and security. Sign up here. 🚀 Products Fixie.ai Fixie is a cloud-hosted Platform-as-a-Service that enables individuals to build and integrate smart agents that leverage the power of LLMs to solve problems based on natural language. In Fixie, each Agent…Machine Learning4 min readMachine Learning4 min read
Published in Memory Leak·Feb 6Foundational Model Orchestration (FOMO) — A PrimerVC Astasia Myers’ perspectives on machine learning, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, open source, and security. Sign up here. There are two approaches to building Machine Learning (ML) applications. Traditionally, data scientists and ML engineers trained or fine-tuned ML models they deployed to production as a notebook or API. Recently a…Machine Learning5 min readMachine Learning5 min read
