October 2, 2023

CI/CD/CF

For some reason, the observability platforms we are using today all went for the usual-suspect use cases — detection, troubleshooting, and production ops. Perhaps because many of these tools originally targeted Ops and IT teams, or that’s just where the impact seemed more obvious.

Everything is ‘shifting left’: testing, security, operations, etc. More and more aspects of the release process are now owned by the team which is ultimately accountable for them. For observability tools, it seems like they are ‘pushing left’ instead of doing any type of shifting.

What I’d like to see is how can we make data more relevant not in the day or even minutes after something went wrong, but when the code is still being designed. How can we make important code design decisions more informed and leverage some of the data we are already collecting?

CI/CD/CF? — The DevOps Toolchain's "Missing-Link", Digma

Funding

PartyKit, an open source platform for building realtime multiplayer collaborative applications, raised $2.5m in pre-Seed funding.

Braintrust, an enterprise-grade stack for building and shipping AI products, raised $3m in funding.

Digma, an IDE plugin that uses runtime information to continuously highlight issues, regressions and problems in code, raised $6m in Seed funding.

Fhenix, a confidential blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption, raised $7.5m in Seed funding.

Senser, zero-instrumentation AIOps platform that SRE and DevOps teams use for better observability in production environments, raised $9.5m in Seed funding.

Nextdata, a data-mesh-native toolset built to meet the challenge of decentralizing data at scale, raised $12m in Seed funding.

Rated, a provider of third-party node and node operator ratings and a comprehensive infrastructure dataset for Ethereum, raised $12.888m in Series A funding.

Kolena, a machine learning testing and debugging platform to test and evaluate model behavior, raised $15m in Series A funding.

Nx, open-source build system that provides tools and techniques for enhancing developer productivity, optimizing CI performance, and maintaining code quality, raised $16m in Series A funding.

PortX,a scalable and secure Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) built for banks, credit unions, and fintechs, raised $16.5m in Series B funding.