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Announcing our $8m Series Seed

Posted on August 21, 2023 | 3 minutes | 446 words
| Cory O'Daniel

We are excited to announce our $8m Series Seed Led by Builders VC The round was led by Ting Ting Liu of Builders VC. They are founders and operators with a fantastic track record of helping turn bold ideas into great companies. The round also included 1984 VC (previous investor in Square, Posthog), Y Combinator, Preston-Werner Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Page One Ventures, Soma Capital, Hack VC, and technical/founder angels with experience starting their own successful businesses. [Read More]

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The Changing Face of Open-Source

Posted on August 16, 2023 | 5 minutes | 998 words
| Cory O'Daniel | Dave Williams

Note Read our commitment to OpenTF here Disclaimer: We support the OpenTF initiative, but these opinions do not reflect the views of the initiative. Dave & I speak very plainly. In this curiously deleted YouTube video, HashiCorp’s co-founders, Armon and Mitchell, passionately championed the virtues of open-source software. Their words resonated with many who believed that open source wasn’t just a coding philosophy but a way of life that fostered collaboration, innovation, and community. [Read More]

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Massdriver pledges support for the Future of Terraform: OpenTofu

Posted on August 14, 2023 | 2 minutes | 282 words
| Dave Williams

Last week, HashiCorp announced a change in Terraform’s licensing from the open-source MPL 2.0 (Mozilla Public License 2.0) to the restrictive BSL (Business Source License 1.1). This shocked the infrastructure engineering community, as it threatens to undermine the contributions of so many companies seeking to improve the Terraform experience. At this time, Massdriver and our users are unaffected by this change. While Massdriver supports Terraform, we build our tooling agnostically to work with any infrastructure-as-code solution, giving users the freedom to choose their preferred tool - whether Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation, or plain Bash scripts. [Read More]

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Kubeflow guide: Part 1

Posted on May 18, 2023 | 7 minutes | 1294 words
| Michael Lacore

Developing a machine learning model needs end-to-end thinking. From data collection to model deployment, productionizing an ML model is a journey. After the final step - model deployment, ML engineers and data scientists should not stop there but keep measuring the model performance and monitoring model drift. Due to the complexity and wide areas to cover, people working in the ML domain rely on software like Kubeflow that can streamline the ML process. [Read More]

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Dilating GitHub Actions using Dialyzer

Posted on March 17, 2023 | 4 minutes | 701 words
| Andreas Kasprzok

Elixir is a strong dynamic language: it checks types at run time, enabling some of its most powerful features like pattern matching and macros. The “strong” part tells us that type conversion needs to be explicit, unlike JavaScript, which aims to always do “something” with your code, and happily converts between types. These properties make Elixir a flexible and productive language, but open the possibility for bugs such as passing the wrong type to a function during run time, crashing the process. [Read More]

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The CIDR problem, and how we fixed it

Posted on March 6, 2023 | 4 minutes | 788 words
| Michael Lacore

Who needs CIDR? Who are we kidding? We do. You likely already know that CIDR notation is a necessary evil for DevOps and operations teams. However, for those who don’t have experience in the networking field, CIDR notation may seem confusing, irrelevant, and potentially devastating when done incorrectly. What is CIDR notation? CIDR notation allows us to express a range of IP addresses using a single number, called the subnet mask. [Read More]

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DevOps is Bullshit

A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.

Posted on October 19, 2022 | 11 minutes | 2280 words
| Cory O'Daniel

Update: A follow up article was posted on the Microsoft Blog. DevOps started as a well-intentioned set of practices and culture. Over the years, it has devolved into an unholy beast of division and tunnel vision. Why did we stop dreaming bigger? What happened to tearing down silos, increasing engineering velocity, and adding value? Remember? The things DevOps was supposed to do? But the reality is, outside of FAANG and the most well-funded companies, your team is probably doing one of the following: [Read More]

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