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  • Honeycomb’s Strong Performance Drives $20 Million Series B Investment to Secure Leadership in Observability

    e.ventures led investment in Honeycomb’s industry leadership and product innovation, which focuses on observability for modern engineering teams  

    SAN FRANCISCO, February 2, 2021 – Honeycomb, a provider of observability for distributed systems to understand, debug, and improve production systems, announced today the close of a $20 million Series B round led by e.ventures Growth, with participation from Industry Ventures and existing investors Storm Ventures, Scale Ventures Partners, NextWorld Capital, and Merian Ventures. This round of funding comes as Honeycomb continues to see sustained strong business growth and product innovation, and brings Honeycomb’s total amount of capital raised to $46.9 million.

    “We are very pleased Industry Ventures has joined our journey, along with our existing investors, to build an enduring company that developers, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering teams both need and trust,” said Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb. “With a booming interest in Honeycomb’s solutions, this infusion of capital enables us to accelerate our product roadmap and further our innovative approach to helping customers efficiently manage the performance of complex software at scale. The valuation achieved in this round of investment is reflective of our market leadership and the continued commitment to building upon our industry-defining solutions.”

    The recent round of funding comes on the heels of a banner year for Honeycomb, which doubled its business to support over 300 fast-growth companies to date. Designed to handle the scale and complexity of modern architectures, Honeycomb’s offering empowers engineers and their organizations to manage exponential volumes of data where traditional APM solutions routinely fail. The cloud-based offering provides real-time insights that identify optimizations hidden within complex application systems, enables engineering teams to debug systems faster, and helps businesses focus on building superior customer experiences.

    Since taking in its last funding round in September 2019, Honeycomb has accomplished significant business milestones, including:

    • Adding top industry talent to the leadership bench, including Vice President of Sales, Chad Malchow; Vice President of Engineering, Emily Nakashima; and Vice President of Marketing, Jo Ann Sanders
    • Doubling its headcount, with a focus on building out Honeycomb’s Sales and Marketing teams
    • Doubling its Annual Recurring Revenue in 2020, with record-setting quarter-over-quarter growth, and closing landmark deals that grew the company’s footprint to more than 300 customers
    • Tripling the number of fast-growing enterprise customers like Hello Fresh, Intercom, and Slack, whose digitally enabled business services grew exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Strengthening its overall customer base with over 150 percent growth across small, mid-market, and enterprise markets by replacing solutions offered by traditional APM vendors, in addition to propelling growth with increased subscription renewals across the largest enterprise customers
    • Expanding market traction with large enterprises undergoing aggressive digital transformation initiatives to modernize their infrastructure in industries like financial services
    • Offering broader security protection for enterprise customers with solutions like Secure Tenancy, in addition to expanding support and customer success services, and simplifying pricing model and plans and providing a new free usage tier

    “When we led the last round, I was impressed with the community leadership, technology, and market opportunity. Just a year later, we are doubling down because they have added to that an efficient go-to-market effort that is exceeding our expectations. They have attracted top-notch executive leadership across the board, from product, developer relations, and engineering, to sales, that is uniquely suited to succeed here. Together, this team understands the observability needs of engineering and operators better than anyone in the industry, and it shows in the incredible product and customer enthusiasm.” – Ariel Tseitlin, Partner, Scale Ventures 

    “The tremendous results delivered by Honeycomb’s leadership team have given us the confidence to make a rare investment from the growth arm of e.ventures,“ said Thomas Gieselmann, General Partner of e.ventures. “As the de facto observability tool for businesses, Honeycomb’s innovations continue to empower customers with the solutions needed to deliver on the promise of seamless digital experiences. We believe Honeycomb is well positioned and firmly committed to remaining the clear leader within the maturing observability market.”

    About Honeycomb

    Honeycomb provides observability for modern development teams to learn, debug, and improve their production systems efficiently so that business-critical apps perform with minimal disruption to users. Honeycomb’s customers rely on the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle that translates to happy devs and happy customers. Learn more at www.honeycomb.io and follow us on Twitter.

     

  • Pattern89 Forecasts Social Media Ad Trends for Super Bowl, COVID-19 Visuals in New Report

    Predictive performance platform analyzed billions of data points to provide advertisers and marketers with impactful, AI-driven insights on the creative that will engage users now and in the future

    INDIANAPOLIS – February 2, 2021 – Pattern89, a platform that specializes in creative artificial intelligence (AI) to maximize digital marketing performance, today announced the January 2021 Creative Forecast report, with insights on the engagement of video and image-based ads, the 2021 Super Bowl, creative life cycles, COVID-19 vaccine visuals and more.

    “The future of the industry is found in data-driven agencies and marketers. Educated guesses aren’t reliable enough for the new world we live in, and humans simply can’t account for all of the trends, variables and insights at their disposal,” said R. J. Talyor, CEO and Founder of Pattern89. “Our humanity and creativity can thrive alongside AI. Better yet, the confidence we’re able to put into these forecasts can save budgets from wasteful A/B spending.”

    Pattern89’s Creative Forecasts exist to understand the future of ad creative. With so many rapid, global changes from 2020, the January 2021 Creative Forecast helps marketers start their year off on the right foot, with hundreds of data-backed marketing predictions. Different than other marketing automation tools on the market, Pattern89 analyzes billions of historic and current trends to provide marketers predictive performance insights. In this new report, including pages of insights and in-depth creative briefs, marketers will learn:

    • What Creative Will Win the Super Bowl: Due to the pandemic, ads showing parties and groups are trending down, while visuals like puppies, pizza and costumes are trending up. Marketers are creatively conveying fun amidst nationwide social distancing.

    • The Vaccine’s Impact on Creative: Ads with the word “fear” surged in CTRs in February and October-November. Ads with the word “home” stayed steady throughout the year, in terms of CTR, but skyrocketed in December. To express optimism, visuals depicting summer, sports and people like bartenders are trending upward.

    • The Mediums that Most Engage Users: Going into 2021, Pattern89 projects that video ads will begin to outperform image ads on click-through rates more consistently.

    “We know that people buy anything from people they know, like, and trust,” said Aaron Parkinson, CEO of 7 Mile Media SEZC. “In 2021, we are focusing on helping our clients manufacture fame and acquire a raving fan base. As we strategically leverage the social platforms, we’re using Pattern89 data to provide guidance and direction on how to make these campaigns as impactful as possible.”

    To unlock these creative predictions, Pattern89 studied a proprietary data set of 200 billion+ data points, more than stars in the galaxy, 49,000+ dimensions analyzed for each creative and 11 years in historic data with algorithms re-run daily. For more information, or to view the January Creative Forecast and previous editions, visit Pattern89.com.

    About Pattern89

    Pattern89 provides powerful, artificial intelligence-driven marketing technology to help brands and agencies discover what creative decisions drive their most impactful digital performance. With creative analysis and prediction algorithms delivering over 95% accuracy, Pattern89 reduces waste by identifying successful patterns and outliers in companies’ ad creative performance data on digital channels. For more information, visit www.pattern89.com.

  • Varada Open-Sources Its Workload Analyzer to Help Data Teams Optimize Data Lake Queries

    Workload Analyzer gives data engineers holistic visibility into performance of Presto®  clusters, enabling resource optimization and improved service to business-wide users of Big Data analytics

     

    TEL AVIV, Israel — February 2, 2021 — Varada, the data lake query acceleration innovator, today announced that it has open-sourced its Workload Analyzer for Presto, including both Trino (formerly known as PrestoSQL) and PrestoDB, making the source code available to everyone via Github. The Workload Analyzer is a free, easy-to-use tool that offers visibility into how Big Data and analytics workloads are performing, offering users insights into how to improve performance and optimize resources. Download the Workload Analyzer here.

    “Presto democratized Big Data, exponentially expanding the number of business users that can ask questions to a Big Data infrastructure and enlarging the number of underlying data sources they can query,” said Ori Reshef, vice president of products at Varada. “But as the number of users within an organization grows, the challenge of DataOps teams is to keep queries running quickly, delivering results in a timely way so that those users can do their jobs. Unfortunately, DataOps teams are only able to get bits and pieces of the information they need to optimize resources from Presto itself. So Varada built the Workload Analyzer to give DataOps teams deep and actionable insights.”

     

    The Workload Analyzer collects details and metrics on every query, aggregates and extracts information, and delivers dozens of charts describing all the facets of cluster performance. For the first time, data engineers have a holistic view of their cluster and can drill down into pain points to determine what queries to optimize and how. Download a sample Presto Workload analysis report.

     

    The Workload Analyzer is compatible with PrestoDB and Trino. The Workload Analyzer script runs safely within the Presto cluster in the user’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), collecting and analyzing query statistics (JSONs). No data leaves the cluster and the tool does not require any external resources. The Workload Analyzer has already been tested on dozens of massive scale production clusters, resulting in zero impact on query performance.

     

    Using the Workload Analyzer, data teams can:

    • Learn how resources are used on an hourly and weekly basis and define scaling rules

    • Identify heavy spenders and improve the pipeline
    • Improve predicate pushdown and significantly reduce IO and CPU
    • Identify “hottest” data
    • Improve JOINs performance
    • Provide a better production roll-out experience and identify upgrade risks upfront

     

    “We’re already seeing this tool used in amazing ways,” said Reshef. “For example, one company is using it as a quality assurance tool for daily tests on large clusters. Another is using it for strategic planning to understand the best data sets to query for business users, while allocating resources effectively to significantly reduce costs. The number of use cases continues to rise.”

     

    Presto: A Tool of Choice for Data-driven Companies
    Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries. Presto offers many benefits, most notably its ability to quickly run queries on a wide variety of data sources all at once, including ‘raw,’ unmodeled data. With this capability, as well as other unique advantages, Presto has quickly become a tool of choice for many significant data-driven companies.

     

    The Varada Commitment to the Trino and PrestoDB Communities
    “As part of our deep commitment to the PrestoDB and Trino communities, Varada decided to release a standalone, open source version of our Workload Analyzer tool so that any Presto user can evaluate potential performance improvements in their cluster,” said Eran Vanounou, CEO of Varada. “The tool will help PrestoDB and Trino users optimize their clusters on their own using their existing solutions. Of course, we anticipate that after discovering the existing inefficiencies within their clusters, many users will want to further evaluate how adding an indexing layer to PrestoDB or Trino can help them vastly improve performance. We will be more than happy to demonstrate how the Varada Data Platform can do just that.”

     

    Varada leverages Presto in its innovative query acceleration engine, the Varada Data Platform. A big data infrastructure solution for fast analytics on thousands of dimensions, the Varada Data Platform became generally available in December 2020. Varada’s proprietary indexing layer runs on top of Presto, improving Presto’s query response time by x10-x100.

     

    About Varada
    The Varada mission is to enable data practitioners to go beyond the traditional limitations imposed by data infrastructure and instead zero in on the data and answers they need—with complete control over performance, cost and flexibility. In Varada’s world of big data, every query can find its optimal plan, with no prior preparation and no bottlenecks, providing consistent performance at a petabyte scale. Varada was founded by veterans of the Dell EMC XtremIO core team, and is dedicated to leveraging the data lake architecture to take on the challenge of data and business agility. Varada has been recognized in the Cool Vendors in Data Management report by Gartner, Inc. For more information, visit: https://varada.io/

     

    Presto® is a trademark of The Linux Foundation.

  • Delphix Accelerates YoY Growth Rate by Over 85%, Swings to Profitability

    Digital Transformation Imperative Drives Need for API-First Data Platform

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Delphix, the pioneer in programmable data infrastructure, saw rising demand for its data delivery capabilities, as digital transformation took on new urgency with the pandemic in 2020. The surge in demand accelerated Delphix’s annual growth rate by over 85% for the fiscal year ending January 2021 compared to the prior year, pushing the company into non-GAAP profitability. Delphix also achieved a world-class Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 89 during the fiscal year ending January 2021.

    Urgency around digital transformation programs are expected to continue over the next several years. To satisfy the demand, Delphix added senior executives in field operations, customer success, and sales with experience scaling to over a billion dollars in revenue.

    “We helped companies around the world quickly expand their digital operations,” said Delphix CEO Jedidiah Yueh. “Cloud, DevOps, and AI/ML put enormous pressure on data delivery and the need for our API-first data platform.”

    Over the last decade, code, networks, servers, and storage have all been automated by cloud and infrastructure vendors. But data has remained heavy, complex, and filled with security and privacy risk.

    To achieve cloud speed and scale, enterprises need programmable data infrastructure—data that is automated, secure, and easily moved to anywhere it’s needed across the multi-cloud.

    But digital transformation programs often starve for data and application environments, which can slow or derail transformation progress. Without data-ready environments, projects hemorrhage developer productivity, miss timelines, and overrun budgets.

    Delphix’s data platform helps customers satisfy the data demands of transformation programs, with use cases including:

    • DevOps & CI/CD: Morgan Stanley uses Delphix to incorporate production-quality data into automated CI/CD workflows used by multiple application development teams, accelerating the delivery of new features for trading and booking applications.
    • AI/ML: JGC Holdings Corporation uses Delphix to automate the delivery of large volumes of data across multiple sources for AI/ML, giving data scientists and analytics teams the ability to better predict project outcomes, reduce project risks, and reduce plant costs.
    • Downtime Reduction: Michelin uses Delphix to reduce the risk of outages and the mean time to repair (MTTR) for critical systems that rely upon data and batch processing to optimize tire supply and delivery, saving millions of dollars a year in downtime cost avoidance.

    An IDC study reveals that companies employing programmable data infrastructure increase revenue by an average of $15M, boost development productivity by 40%, and reduce infrastructure costs by 72%.

    “At Delphix, we not only accelerate digital transformation programs, we also help customers protect personal privacy and data security,” added Yueh. “Our immutable time machine and data masking capabilities increase project velocity while reducing risk. It’s a win-win.”

    Delphix Growth Highlights

    Delphix customers now include:

    • 23 of the Fortune 100
    • Over 100 banks and financial services institutions, including:
      • 6 of the top 10 banks in North America
      • 4 of the top 10 banks in Europe
      • 9 banks across the Asia-Pacific region
    • 6 of the top 10 telcos in the world
    • 60 insurance and health insurance providers
    • 25 major retailers across the globe

    During 2020, Delphix helped companies manage more than 2 exabytes of data, while accelerating releases for more than 20,000 applications. Delphix also helped businesses potentially avoid more than $1 trillion in data security and compliance risk associated with a growing list of regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Brazil’s new General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais) (LGPD), etc.

    “2020 has been a transformational year,” said Yueh. “Our team rose to the challenge, responding to the urgent needs of customers in over 27 countries. In doing so, we achieved both fast growth and profitability. Data has never been more important to businesses around the world, and we thank our customers and partners for their continued support.”

    About Delphix
    Delphix is the pioneer in programmable data infrastructure. Delphix automates the biggest constraint in digital transformation programs—the data. Cloud, CI/CD, and AI/ML all have a voracious appetite for data and development environments. With our multi-cloud data platform, enterprises can adopt cloud 30% faster, release software 50% faster, and access 90% more data for AI/ML, while protecting personal data privacy and maintaining compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, etc. For more information, visit www.delphix.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

     

  • LightBox acquires industry leader BuildingFootprintUSA™

    IRVINE, CA – February 1, 2021 – LightBox, a leading provider of commercial real estate data and workflow solutions, announced the acquisition of BuildingFootprintUSA™, the premier provider of building and structure boundaries for location analytics. With this acquisition, LightBox will immediately make building footprints available to its customers.

    Connecting BuildingFootprintUSA datasets to LightBox data will create the industry’s only fully integrated parcel, building structure, and property attribute datasets for comprehensive location intelligence across the commercial real estate, telecommunications, routing & logistics, and insurance markets, as well as the broader geospatial ecosystem.

    “This acquisition demonstrates our ongoing commitment to innovation that serves the commercial real estate ecosystem. We’re looking to replace existing information silos with industry standard linked datasets. Our parcels and property data will now be integrated with rooftop-level geocodes, addresses, and boundaries,” said LightBox CEO, Eric Frank. “We strongly believe the future is one of connected datasets and we want to drive this change for the commercial real estate industry in the US and Canada.”

    BuildingFootprintUSA was founded in 2016 in Albany, New York. The company serves customers of all size within commercial real estate, telecommunications, insurance, and mapping solutions with high-accuracy location data to facilitate accurate site selection, routing, spatial analysis and data visualization. Customers leverage building geometry, height, and ground elevation data to assist in determining potential flood risks, expanding broadband connectivity, policy planning for safety and security, and broader geospatial analytics.

    “Joining LightBox gives us an exciting opportunity to grow and deliver our data and solutions to a broader segment of the commercial real estate market in the US and Canada,” said Karl Urich, founder and president of BuildingFootprintUSA. “By combining our datasets with those of LightBox, we will be able to offer the most accurate boundary, address, and geocoding dataset available.”

    To learn more about how you can begin leveraging solutions that combine the best of BuildingFootprintUSA and LightBox today, please visit lightboxre.com. 

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    About LightBox:

    LightBox is building the world’s leading real estate information and technology platform.  LightBox customers comprise all types of enterprises needing authoritative real estate data and workflow solutions, including brokers, developers, investors, lenders, insurers, environmental consultants, corporations, technology companies, and valuation professionals. LightBox is backed by Silver Lake and Battery Ventures. Learn more at www.lightboxre.com.

     

    About BuildingFootprintUSA: 

    At BFUSA LightBox, we develop next-generation geolocation data centered on the built environment — where people live, work, shop, and play. Our hyper-accurate building and address data helps customers make critical decisions that are highly dependent on location. Learn more at www.buildingfootprintusa.com.

  • Bonitasoft Sets New Standard for Open Source Digital Process Automation, Delivering Innovation for Project Collaboration and Governance

    New Bonita DPA platform delivers a unique combination of visual programming and coding capabilities for process automation teams

    SAN FRANCISCO – January 28, 2021 – Bonitasoft, open source digital process automation company, today announced a significant milestone in the democratization of process automation technologies. To meet the growing need for seamless collaboration and governance between business and IT for process automation projects everywhere, Bonitasoft has open-sourced an unprecedented number of features in this major product release.

    Process automation continues to present growing challenges for enterprises, and for the business and IT teams who are responsible for delivering automation projects. To meet the demands of mission-critical projects in today’s digital enterprise, full cooperation and IT-business teamwork all the way down and through the organization is more important than ever. However, the trend to low code solutions to allow more independence for “citizen developers” can take collaboration in the wrong direction, adding governance and maintainability issues. Establishing the rules and policies of corporate and project governance is a mutual responsibility, as is the implementation of “corporate guardrails” via technology in automation projects of all sizes.

    With the Bonita 2021.1 release, Bonitasoft has unified development tools between open source and commercial editions of Bonita Platform to allow process automation teams and organizations to adopt and use open source technology that adapts to their individual project governance needs.

    Bonitasoft offers an alternative to separating professional developer from citizen developer work, by including both visual programming and coding on the same platform. True collaboration from project conception to production, monitoring, and continuous improvement is now possible for process automation teams. This unique approach to low-code in a DPA platform allows professional developers to externalize the code and give them the freedom to continue to use their existing tools while ensuring a smooth collaboration and project governance with citizen developers that will leverage visual programming capabilities of Bonita.

    Together with this major platform release, Bonitasoft also announces today brand-new “turn-key” services packages that are specifically intended to help speed up project implementation and production upgrades for process automation teams. These packages are built on top of the commercial edition of the platform, which already includes additional capabilities to secure, scale, monitor and continuously improve process automation projects. Bonita Enterprise – on premise or on the Cloud – is the ideal choice to get started rapidly with a first process automation implementation and to upgrade painlessly to the latest version of the solution.

    “We want to boost process automatization adoption through the democratization of DPA, as we did 12 years ago with the democratization of BPM, and at the same time, greatly simplify upgrades and downgrades between the Community and commercial Enterprise editions of Bonita,” says Miguel Valdés Faura, Bonitasoft founder and CEO. “We were founded as a company on a commitment to open source, and we want anyone to be able to build an automation project on the Bonita platform.”

    Bonita’s visual programming capabilities include process modeling using the BPMN2 standard, a graphical editor with guidance and auto-completion, a shared repository, and multiple options to define and enforce business rules, including ones intended to support project governance. Wizards and guidance windows help the business user with some technical configurations, including connectors to Salesforce CRM, UIPath RPA, SAP, multiple databases including Oracle, and more.

    For developers, Bonita offers extensive coding capabilities through archetypes (coding patterns or templates) so they can fully extend the automation project by integrating Bonita with other enterprise information systems using REST and custom connectors, by customizing user interfaces, and more. This separation allows developers to code extensions outside of Bonita so development teams everywhere are free to use any development tools they already use, and are comfortable and efficient with, instead of limiting them only to the tools provided natively with Bonita.

    In addition to the new Software Development Kits that allow developers to create and test extension points, Bonita users can now reuse and extend Bonita Portal in their applications. This end user interface has been split into two unique Bonita applications (User App, Admin App) that can be used as is or customized with the natively provided UIDesigner.

    About Bonitasoft

    Bonitasoft fully supports digital operations and modernization of information systems with Bonita, an open-source and extensible platform for automation and optimization of business processes. The Bonita platform accelerates development and production with a clear separation between visual programming and coding capabilities. Bonita integrates with existing information systems, orchestrates heterogeneous systems and provides deep visibility across all enterprise processes.

  • New RapidAPI Developer Survey Highlights Accelerated API Adoption

    Second annual RapidAPI Developer Survey Report provides key insights on the API landscape and emerging technology trends for the coming year

    SAN FRANCISCO—January 27, 2021—RapidAPI, the world’s largest API Marketplace that helps developers find and connect to thousands of APIs, today released a new report measuring developer trends and API usage. The second annualRapidAPI Developer Survey Reportsurveyed individuals from 250 countries and across different roles in software development, with a majority identifying as professional developers, managers or leadership. 

    A key insight from the survey was that developer reliance on APIs increased over the past year amidst the global  pandemic and will continue to increase in 2021. Organizations of all sizes from a wide range of industries plan to join the API economy this year, and API testing and security were top concerns among survey respondents. 

    “During the pandemic, many companies rapidly accelerated their digital transformation journeys. So, it makes sense that their investment in software development and particularly in the API economy continues to rise,” said Iddo Gino, RapidAPI founder and CEO. “RapidAPI makes it easier for companies to take advantage of the API economy by connecting their developers to thousands of APIs and microservices that can help them test and manage APIs more efficiently.”

    Key Data Insights

    Among other insights, the report revealed that:

    Developer reliance on APIs continues to increase:Developer reliance on APIs accelerated during the pandemic and will continue to increase in 2021; 61% of developers used more APIs in 2020 than in 2019, and 71% plan to use even more this year. 

    Participation in the API economy is a priority across industries: Overall, 58% of executives said participating in the API economy was a top priority for their organization. The figure was even higher in certain industries: 89% of telecommunications executives will take advantage of APIs and standards like Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and the Open API Initiative are driving adoption among a majority of healthcare (75%) and financial services (62%) executives.

    The adoption of new API technologies is increasing: This year’s survey also suggests that API technology and usage are becoming more varied. REST continues to be the most popular standard among those surveyed, and there was strong interest in emerging technologies like serverless, FaaS, WebSockets, and gRPC. AsyncAPI tripled in production usage (from 5% in 2019 to 19% in 2020), and GraphQL doubled (from 6% in 2019 to 12% in 2020).

    API testing and security are top priorities:Testing and security are top priorities for almost all developers—95% cited security as a top consideration, and 92% plan to test APIs in 2021. More than 43% of developers will use tools to write or manage tests, and 15% plan to use a tool in the future. Another 38% will write tests in their code.

    More than half of professional developers spend 10+ hours a week working on APIs:  Organizations dedicate significant resources to API development, including time—58% of professional software developers spent at least 10 hours each week working with APIs. Nearly 30% said they spend more than 20 hours a week working with APIs.

    JavaScript continues to be the most popular programming language:Despite the changes in API technology, the top five most popular programming languages remained the same in 2020 compared to 2019, with JavaScript leading the list as the most popular. Python, Java, PHP, and C# followed closely behind.

    For more information

    About RapidAPI

    RapidAPI, the world’s largest API Marketplace, is used by millions of developers to find, test and connect to thousands of APIs—all with a single account, API key and SDK. For enterprise organizations, RapidAPI offersRapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a white-labeled version of the marketplace that enables the company’s developers, customers and partners to find, manage and connect to hundreds of internal APIs, as well as external API subscriptions.

  • Cribl Achieves Amazon Linux 2 Ready Designation

    SAN FRANCISCO – January 28, 2021 – Cribl, the leading Observability Pipeline company, today announced that it has achieved the Amazon Linux 2 Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Cribl LogStream has been validated to run on and support Amazon Linux 2.

    Achieving the Amazon Linux 2 Ready designation differentiates Cribl as an AWS Partner with a generally available product that runs on Amazon Linux 2 and is fully supported for AWS customers. AWS Service Ready Partners have demonstrated success building products integrated with AWS services, helping AWS customers evaluate and use their technology productively, at scale and varying levels of complexity.

    “Cribl is happy to have achieved the AWS Service Ready status, allowing users to deploy LogStream with confidence on Amazon Linux 2,” said Clint Sharp, CEO of Cribl. “This designation helps us support customers on their observability journeys with the speed, stability and security AWS provides.”

    To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Service Ready Program to help customers identify products integrated with AWS services and spend less time evaluating new tools, and more time scaling their use of products that are integrated or run on select AWS Services. Amazon Linux 2 is the next generation of Amazon Linux, a Linux server operating system from AWS. It provides a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications.

    Cribl LogStream is a purpose-built observability pipeline for logs, metrics and traces that allows customers to shape, route, enrich and ultimately take control of their data from any source to any destination. This stream processor solution works anywhere as either software or a SaaS solution.

    “We’re excited to support Cribl and Amazon Linux 2 to provide a powerful, cost-effective method for our customers to take control of their data flow as they exploit the value of the cloud,” said Mike Cormier, co-founder and managing director of Concanon.

    To learn more about Cribl’s Amazon Linux 2 Ready designation, please read the latest blog.

    About Cribl

    Cribl is a company built to solve data challenges and enable customer choice. Our solutions deliver innovative and customizable controls to route security and machine data where it has the most value. We call this an observability pipeline, and it helps slash costs, improve performance, and get the right data, to the right destinations, in the right formats, at the right time. Join the dozens of early adopters, including market leaders such as TransUnion and Autodesk, to take control and shape your data. Founded in 2017, Cribl is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit www.cribl.io or ourLinkedIn, Twitter, or Slack community, and find us on AWS.

  • Revenera Releases 2021 Findings on Open Source License Compliance

    Report shows more extensive open source use than organizations disclose, paired with rapid growth in security vulnerabilities.

    Itasca, IL – January 28, 2020 – Revenera, producer of leading solutions that help technology companies build better products, accelerate time to value and monetize what matters, today released the Revenera 2021 State of Open Source License Compliance report today.

    The report analyzes data from 2020 audit services projects, evaluating the prevalence of open source software (OSS), the under-reporting of that use, and the resulting license compliance issues and security vulnerabilities. This global, cross-industry study by Revenera’s audit services team evaluated more than 2.1 billion lines of code and uncovered 174,334 issues.

    “Open source software’s growing popularity is due in part to its ability to give companies accelerated time-to-market and provide more focus on core competencies for development teams. However, with that valuable opportunity comes risks that are often unknown and therefore not addressed,” said Alex Rybak, Director, Product Management, Revenera. “A continuous, automated open source management program is the best way to proactively monitor code churn throughout the development process and address any identified compliance issues, especially new security vulnerabilities—all while embracing open source for the strategic advantages it provides.”

    Highlights of the Revenera 2021 State of Open Source License Compliance report:

    • Growing use of open source software increases possibility of risk. The average number of issues uncovered per audit project grew to 1,959, compared to 662 reported the previous year. This new 200 percent growth, year over year, was fueled by popular ecosystems including PyPI, NPM, RubyGems, and many others which are bringing in more dependencies into users’ codebases. Binaries—made up of a collection of compiled source code from various origins—grew 58 percent, year over year, with 1 issue discovered for every 12,126 lines of code.
    • Organizations face more risk than is disclosed. While 55 percent of the scanned codebase files were attributed to open source (an increase of 10 percent over the past year), only 4 percent of the issues uncovered through audits were disclosed in advance of audit start.
    • Security vulnerabilities are growing. Data from forensic and standard audits identified 89 security vulnerabilities per project, jumping from 45 in the previous year’s findings.
    • Critical license compliance issues require immediate attention. Priority 1 (P1) issues are those that pose the most critical threat and that should be remediated first. The team found 130 P1 issues per project, representing 5 percent of the total issues uncovered through M&A and baseline audit projects.
    • Multiple types of audit analyses are required to meet users’ needs. 37 percent of issues were identified through Standard Audit Analysis, which identifies explicit P1 licenses and large third-party components; 28 percent of issues discovered came fromForensic Audit Analysis, which provides an in-depth, deep level scan of all evidence types; and 34 percent of issues were identified through Targeted Audit Analysis, with custom audits based on customer need. Audit customers in 2020 expected faster turnaround times due to an increase in M&A activity.
    • Weak copyleft licenses are 20 percent of the scanned codebase. Weak copyleft licenses indicate that the software program is free to use. However, depending on whether it’s modified, how it’s linked, and how it’s packaged and distributed, there may be obligations imposed on organizations beyond simple attribution requirements. In some cases, weak copyleft requirements extend to all derivative works. Making up 63 percent of the codebase are permissive licenses, with minimal restrictions. Strong copyleft licenses, which mandate that any distributed software that links or incorporates such code be licensed under compatible licenses, represent 12 percent of licenses.

     

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  • The Linkerd Project Announces the Creation of the Linkerd Steering Committee

    Committee reinforces commitment to open governance and ensuring Linkerd meets the service mesh needs of current and future users

    San Francisco, Calif. – January 28, 2021 — The maintainers of Linkerd, the world’s lightest and fastest service mesh, today announced the creation of the Linkerd Steering Committee. The committee will expand Linkerd’s stewardship to its end user community, reinforcing the project’s commitment to open governance and a user-centered roadmap. The first steering committee meeting will be in February and is open to everyone.

    The creation of the Linkerd Steering Committee has been driven by the continued rapid growth of Linkerd. Over the past years adoption has soared, expanding to include large organizations like Microsoft, H-E-B, EverQuote, and HP as well as fast-moving startups like finleap connect, Subspace, and Clover Health. By formally representing the voice of the Linkerd user community, the steering committee will play a vital role in gathering, collating, and prioritizing feedback from users to ensure Linkerd’s roadmap continues to focus on solving concrete, immediate problems for current and future adopters.

    “Linkerd is a unique service mesh. In a space that’s very prone to hype cycles and marketing-driven development, we’ve always put our users first,” said William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant, the creator of Linkerd. “The Linkerd Steering Committee extends this same philosophy, and will help us ensure that the needs of Linkerd adopters—who trust Linkerd to power mission-critical systems around the world—will continue to be at the utmost center of Linkerd’s evolution.”

    Members of the Linkerd Steering Committee members are required to be current production users of Linkerd, and will be selected for, among other factors, significant operational experience with the project. Initial committee members include Chris Campbell, Cloud Platform Architect, HP; Christian Hüning, Director of Cloud Technologies, finleap connect; Justin Turner, Director of Engineering, H-E-B; and Wiliam King, CTO and Co-founder, Subspace.

    All Linkerd Steering Committee meetings will take place publicly and recordings will be made available. For more information, please visit the Linkerd Steering Committee charter.

    About Buoyant

    Buoyant was founded by William Morgan and Oliver Gould in 2015 with the mission of making the fundamental tools for reliability and security of software accessible to every engineer in the world. They pioneered the service mesh category with Linkerd, the open source, open governance service mesh. Today, Buoyant’s software powers critical production infrastructure for leading organizations around the world. Buoyant investors include GV, Benchmark, #ANGELS, A Capital and SV Angel. For more information, visit https://buoyant.io/.