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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million.

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Serverless Stack raises $1M for open-source application framework

TechCrunch

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2).

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Open Source Means Strong Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

“Your secure software is open source: doesn’t that make it less secure?” We strongly believe not only that open source is compatible with digital security, but that it’s also essential for it. It might even be stronger than Safe Number One, but I have no idea if it is. I know which one I’d choose!

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Amazon, Apple, and Google’s open-source smart home standard is on track for a 2021 launch

The Verge

Project Connected Home over IP — the ambitious attempt to bring together Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance with a unified, open-source smart home platform — has just posted its latest update on the project.

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Openbase scores $3.6M seed to help developers find open source components

TechCrunch

In this case, it was finding the right open source components to build his software. It definitely opened doors for us,” he said. As developers build modern software, they often use open source components to help build the application, and Openbase helps them find the best one for their purposes.

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With $8M seed, Onehouse builds open source data lakehouse, eyes managed service

TechCrunch

That began changing in recent years as companies saw a need to merge the two concepts and the lakehouse idea — combining the power of the data lake with the computational power of the data warehouse — began to take shape. What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story.

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AtomicJar opens public beta of Testcontainers Cloud, cloud version of open source testing tool

TechCrunch

Richard North developed an open source solution called Testcontainers in 2015 to help ease this problem for developers. Today, the open source project is used by companies like Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Capital One. Working with, microservices-based development environments presents a unique set of testing challenges.