Zoom announces the list of first round investments in its $100 million Development Fund

For more than a year, Zoom has been working to transform itself from an app to a platform. To that end, it made three announcements last year: Zoom Apps development tools, the Zoom Apps Marketplace, and a $100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on its platform.

At present, we have made the first round of investment, with the investment amount ranging from 250,000 to 2.5 million DOLLARS. In addition to capital, we also provide advice and implementation support for start-ups with internal resources. Our portfolio includes collaboration and productivity, community and philanthropy, DE&I and PeopleOps, as well as game and entertainment categories like Sales tool Warmly, Voice translation tool Fathom, Instant request and donation collection tool Pledge, and Canvas, a recruiting interview tool.

Reference links:

[1] techcrunch.com/2021/08/30/…

Docker Desktop announces fees

Docker has officially announced a new initiative that will divide product subscriptions into personal, professional, team and business versions. If companies with more than 250 employees or $10 million in annual revenue want to use Docker Desktop, they must use a paid subscription. There are three paid subscriptions: Pro, Team and Business. Pro is $5 per month and Team is $7 per month. Docker Business will charge $21 per user per month!

Reference links:

[1] www.docker.com/blog/updati…

[2] www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/…

Valued at $38 billion! Spark commercialization company Databricks has raised another $1.6 billion

Databricks, a big data startup founded by the original Members of Apache Spark, announced a $1.6 billion Series H funding round. After the round, Databricks’ valuation has soared to $38 billion. In other words, it’s only been seven months since its last $1 billion Series G round, and it’s already $10 billion more valuable.

Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, said the money will be used to accelerate product innovation and market expansion at Data Lakehouse.

Reference links:

[1] techcrunch.com/2021/08/31/…

[2] venturebeat.com/2021/08/31/…

Articles and activities recommended

Cloud Strategy Status survey: Welcome to the cloudy era!

Founded in 2012, HashiCorp is arguably one of the most important companies in the DevOps revolution. As one of the world’s leading Cloud companies (not publicly traded), HashiCorp offers Cloud and DevOps infrastructure automation tools that combine development, operations and security capabilities, Including six products from Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault, Nomad and Consul. Its open-source software is downloaded nearly 80 million times a year, it counts more than 100 of the world’s top 500 companies as customers, and HashiCorp was recently valued at $5.1 billion.

According to the survey, the multi-cloud operation model has become the de facto standard for IT enterprises of all types and sizes to achieve digital transformation. IT companies are investing a lot of resources into cloud construction, and those investments are already paying off. At the same time, businesses still have to deal with the challenges and dependencies of cloud.

Reference links:

[1] www.hashicorp.com/state-of-th…

[2] HashiCorp, a world-class open source company established in ten years

KVSSD: A combination of LSM and FTL for write-optimized KV storage

This Paper is KVSSD presented at DATE 2018 conference. The main idea is to provide KV interface directly on SSD, combine LSM Tree and FTL deeply, so as to avoid multiple software layer write amplification from LSM Tree, host file system to FTL.

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[1] IEEE: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/83…

The first Kubernetes Community Days in China is coming!

Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) is initiated by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and can be jointly organized by CNCF ambassadors, CNCF employees, and CNCF member organizations around the world. KCD are currently in the global various countries actively organized, KCD gathered from cloud native open source community in the field of end users, contributors and technical experts, this series of localization activities help Kubernetes healthy and active development of the community, promote cloud native technology in different sectors of the end user to more widely spread.

Therefore, CNCF, together with several CNCF ambassadors from PingCAP, Huawei Cloud, Qingyun Technology and Yunyuansheng Community, will hold the first Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) in China, and plan to hold two offline events in Beijing and Shanghai respectively. Open source projects and technical practices focusing on cloud ecology and other topics to share.

Date: October 16, Beijing Station, November 6, Shanghai Station

Reference links:

[1] Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) :

Community. CNCF. IO/kubernetes -…

Chinese podcasts and technical books recommended

Podcast Startup Insider

This is a Chinese podcast on investment and entrepreneurship produced by GGV Capital. The English version of “Founder Real Talk” can also be found on the generic client. The guest lineup is very strong, can give you good thinking on technology entrepreneurship and business model.

Open Source Software: Voices of the Open Source Revolution

By Chris DiBona; Sam Ockman; Mark Stone

Publishing House: China Electric Power Press

Publication Date :1999-01

This book is a collection of Open Source insights from several pioneers in the Open Source movement around the world, Brian Behlendorf (founder of Apache), Larry Wall (creator of Perl), Linus Torvalds (father of Linux), Tim O’Reilly (founder of O’Reilly Media), and more.

This book was published earlier, and the state of open source software may have been very different then, but it still gives you some ideas.

Pay attention to “Qingyun Technology Community” public account, background reply “open source”, you can get relevant information.

The Phoenix Architecture: Building Reliable Large-scale Distributed Systems

Author: Zhou Zhiming

Publisher: China Machine Press

Published time: 2021-07-01

It is an open source document on “How to build a reliable distributed large-scale software system”. It is a skill map to help developers organize the various knowledge points in the branches of modern software architecture. The book covers everything from the evolution of microservice architectures to the evolution of immutable infrastructures.

In addition to the documentation part, the author also established several supporting code engineering, which is for different architectures, technical solutions (such as monolithic architecture, microservices, service grid, no service architecture, etc.) demonstration programs. They serve both as practical examples of the knowledge described in the documentation and as reference base code for new projects.

Reference links:

[1] icyfenix.cn

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