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Strapi announced today its $4M Seed funding led by Accel and Stride.vc. Notable angel investors and open-source experts, Solomon Hykes (Founder of Docker), Guillermo Rauch (Founder of Cloudup, Socket.io, Next.js and Zeit.co) and Eli Collins (Ex-CTO at Cloudera), also participated in this round. More on Strapi web site >>
As a freelancer, building strong expertise in new skills in line with market demand is key. If you have skills in high-demand, you will increase the number of days you bill every year. If on top of that, you have skills not a lot of people have, you will increase your daily rare. Here are the top 5 open-source software skills you can invest on in 2019 to increase your volume of work as well as your daily rate: Vue.js: if you are good in web development, and tired to be in competition with the hundreds of thousands of freelancers…
In an impressive move, Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, announced today that Salesforce injected $300 million at a $3 billion valuation. According to Automattic Crunchbase profile, with this new injection of cash, the total raised by the company since day one is $617 million. This is the confirmation of the big ambitions of Automattic. The CMS world is changing drastically, moving from content management for the web to headless digital platforms where users connect with organizations through mobile, web, voice-enabled apps, chatbots and messaging. After the acquisition of Tumblr recently, Automattic will probably push ahead in the PaaS business, as…
Mark Little leads the technical direction, research, and development for Red Hat JBoss Middleware. Prior to taking over this role in 2008, Mark served as the SOA technical development manager and director of standards. Additionally, Mark was a chief architect, and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from HP, where he was Distinguished Engineer. He has worked in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80s with a PhD in fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication, and transactions. Mark is also a professor at Newcastle University and Lyon University. Over the past twenty years open source has become the default software…
Joseph Jacks is the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital. He is based in San Francisco and leads the US investing arm as well as global investment strategies. The talk will focus on explaining the following blog post with additional visualizations and storylines.
KeystoneJS is an open source framework for developing database-driven websites, applications, and APIs in Node.js. KeystoneJS is built on Express and MongoDB.
Headless CMS, also called decoupled CMS, are content repository making content accessible via a RESTful or GraphQL API for display on any device. The idea is to have the data managed there, and be free to present them to any devices or services. The benefits are enormous: the back office manages the content and evolves independently of the front ends. Each front end can evolve at its speed. In the closed source world, Contenful was the first one to push this architecture. In the open source world, there are 2 different types of Headless CMS: The big guys moving to a full…
IBM is acquiring Red Hat, the Linux software provider, in a $34 billion deal. That’s a 63% premium above Friday’s closing price. Red Hat is the leading provider of open source software and services for enterprise customers, focusing on cloud computing and Linux servers. In 2012, it became the first company providing open-source software to surpass $1 billion in revenue. The company’s revenue for Q2 fiscal 2018 was $823 million, up 14 percent year-over-year, according to results disclosed last September. Red Hat will join IBM’s Hybrid Cloud division. This deal can be a see a pricey but smart move for IBM to catch up…
Parse Server is an open source version of the Parse backend (used by Facebook) that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Parse Server works with the Express web application framework. It can be added to existing web applications, or run by itself.