Israel open source security platform developer Snyk has raised $70 million led by Accel and with the participation of previous investors GV and Boldstart Ventures. In its previous financing round last September, the company raised $22 million at a company valuation of $100 million, a source told “Techcrunch” at the time. (Source: Globes)
Kong Open Sources Kuma: The Universal Service Mesh
Kong has announced the release of a new open source project called Kuma. Based on the popular open source Envoy proxy, Kuma is a universal control plane that addresses limitations of first-generation service mesh technologies by enabling seamless management of any service on the network. (Kong Press Release)
ONF Open Sources Stratum
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) today open sourced the Stratum project and said it will be the foundation for ONF’s next-generation SDN stack for operators. Stratum is a silicon-independent switch operating system for software-defined networks that runs on a variety of switching silicon and various whitebox switch platforms. It’s now available under the Apache 2.0 open source license. (SDX Central)
Manjaro Linux Goes Commercial
One of the most popular Linux distribution, Manjaro Linux, is heading toward its commercial path with the creation of a company around the project to keep it sustainable.
The project has founded a company called Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG, to enable full-time employment of maintainers and exploration of future commercial opportunities.
Project’s idea behind the move is to:
- Enable developers to commit full time to Manjaro and its related projects;
- Interact with other developers in sprints and events around Linux;
- Protect the independence of Manjaro as a community-driven project, as well as protect its brand;
Provide faster security updates and a more efficient reaction to the needs of users; - Provide the means to act as a company on a professional level.
That said, Manjaro will remain a community project; nothing is going to change with the project. Manjaro is also working with the Linux Foundation’s CommunityBridge and OpenCollective projects for sponsorships.
Commercialization of Linux and open source is often frowned about by some users of open source, but the fact is that Linux or any other open-source project need commercialization to succeed. Trade and commerce is the backbone of modern human civilization, without it we would become hunters and gatherers. It’s a wise decision by the project to take this step to ensure sustainability.
Microsoft To Hosts Windows Subsystem For Linux Conference
Hayden Barnes, founder of Whitewater Foundry, a startup focusing on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) announced WSLconf 1, the first community conference for WSL. This event will be held on March 10-11, 2020 at Building 20 on the Microsoft HQ campus in Redmond, WA. The conference is still coming together. But we already know it will have presentations and workshops from Pengwin, Whitewater’s Linux for Windows, Microsoft WSL, and Canonical’s Ubuntu on WSL developers. (Source: ZDNet)
ArangoDB: Three Databases In One
ArangoDB, a German database expanding its business in the United States, has released new capabilities in version 3.5 of its eponymous database management software to make it easier to query and search growing data sets across multiple data models. With ArangoDB, data can be stored as key-value pairs, graphs or documents and accessed with one declarative query language. And you can do both at the same time — a document query and a graph query. The combination offers flexibility and performance advantages, explained Claudius Weinberger, CEO. (Source: The New Stack)
Google Open Sources Tool For Pivacy
Google is open-sourcing a library that it uses to glean insights from aggregate data in a privacy-preserving manner. Called Differentially Private SQL, the library leverages the idea of differential privacy (DP) — a statistical technique that makes it possible to collect and share aggregate information about users, while safeguarding individual privacy. This allows developers and organizations to build tools that can learn from aggregate user data without revealing any personally identifiable information. (Source: The Next Web)
Microsoft Announces Linux Based AI Camera
Microsoft has released a Linux based $249 “Vision AI Developer Kit” which is targeted at AI edge developers using Azure IoT Edge and Azure Machine Learning. The developer kit includes a camera, which uses Qualcomm’s Vision Intelligence 300 Platform, and the software needed to develop intelligent edge solutions using Azure IoT Edge and Azure Machine Learning. It supports an end-to-end Azure enabled solution with real-time image processing locally on the edge device and model training and management on Azure. The Vision AI Developer Kit, made by our partner eInfochips, can now be ordered from Arrow Electronics. (Source: Microsoft, LinuxGizmos)
Pulumi Announces Pulumi 1.0 as Infrastructure As Code Platform
Pulumi has announced the general availability of version 1.0 of its modern Infrastructure as Code platform. Pulumi 1.0 introduces new capabilities designed to help developer and operations teams overcome organizational silos and achieve best-in-class levels of productivity, reliability and security on any cloud using familiar programming languages and open source tools and frameworks. Since its founding in 2017, Pulumi has worked with thousands of end users and companies of all sizes — from startups to Global 2000 Enterprises — to deliver production workloads. The 1.0 milestone is a statement of the readiness of Pulumi’s platform for the most demanding applications and organizations. (Source: Pulumi)
Richard Stallman Invited To Microsoft Event
Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet reports that Microsoft invited free software legend Richard Stallman to speak at its Microsoft Research headquarters this week. Stallman, known for launching the Free Software Movement to develop the GNU operating system, was and still is a staunch Microsoft critic. Stallman delivered his standard talk around four freedoms. Foley wrote that Microsoft Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich tweeted this morning (September 5): “In other OSS-related news, Richard Stallman visited campus yesterday and gave a talk at Microsoft Research.” (Source: ZDNet)