September 11, 2023

Developer-Friendly Abstractions

Developers interact with Kubernetes in one of two ways: either they are exposed to Kubernetes themselves either natively through something like Helm and Terraform, or they are working with an abstraction layer that takes control of the entire cluster, leaving no room to go out of the box without fragile external dependencies. While the former gives flexibility for complex solutions, it enforces a high learning curve with no abstractions. The latter, on the other hand, removes the flexibility that is often needed when scaling or building complex solutions.

Additionally, developers are left with an environment where local development is a secondary consideration. Local reproducibility, fast development cycles, and a local setup that mimics production is nothing but a dream at most companies.

Introducing Rig.dev: The open-source application platform for Kubernetes, Rig.dev

Funding

Rig.dev, open-source application platform for building and scaling applications on Kubernetes, raised $2.2m in pre-Seed funding.

Anchor, an embedded finance platform that provides APIs and tools for developers building financial services applications, raised $2.4m in Seed funding.

Socket, an interoperability protocol for secure and efficient data and asset transfers across chains, raised $5m in funding.

Pynt, an API security platform that carries out automated hacks of APIs to find critical issues and zero day vulnerabilities, raised $6m in Seed funding.

Arduino, an open source electronics platform, raised $22m in Series B extension funding.