Roger Vercel

Vercel and Sitecore Announce Strategic Partnership to Empower Brands to Create and Deliver Unparalleled Digital Experiences

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Thursday, January 12, 2023
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Vercel , the cloud platform for frontend developers, together with Sitecore , a global leader in end-to-end digital experience, announce their strategic partnership in response to the growing needs of brands for a more composable architecture.

Key Points: 
  • Vercel , the cloud platform for frontend developers, together with Sitecore , a global leader in end-to-end digital experience, announce their strategic partnership in response to the growing needs of brands for a more composable architecture.
  • “At Sitecore our mission is to elevate leading brands through unforgettable digital connections with their customers.
  • As a global leader in digital experience software, our partnership with Vercel extends the Sitecore Composable DXP product portfolio.
  • This provides our customers with an end-to-end solution for all their digital needs,” said Owen Taraniuk, Global SVP Partners at Sitecore.

Metaplane Raises $8.4m to Ensure Organizational Trust in Data

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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Together, the team has published widely-reviewed papers in data and built several tools for data teams before their current mission of enabling organizations to trust their data.

Key Points: 
  • Together, the team has published widely-reviewed papers in data and built several tools for data teams before their current mission of enabling organizations to trust their data.
  • Metaplane has over 100 teams using its product to discover, debug, and mitigate data issues, including teams at Imperfect Foods, Mux, and Reforge.
  • The product is self-serve — allowing data and analytics engineers to connect their data sources and start monitoring in less than 30 minutes.
  • We are excited to be working with this team to ensure organizations can have trust in their data to drive better business outcomes.”
    Founded by MIT and HubSpot engineers, Metaplane has raised $8.4m for its data observability product to enable organizations to trust their data.

Five Companies Offering Application Development and Deployment Solutions for the Platform as a Service (PaaS) Market Named IDC Innovators

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Friday, November 18, 2022
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International Data Corporation ( IDC ) today published an IDC Innovators report profiling five technology vendors in the cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technologies market that developers are using to accelerate their application development and deployment processes.

Key Points: 
  • International Data Corporation ( IDC ) today published an IDC Innovators report profiling five technology vendors in the cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technologies market that developers are using to accelerate their application development and deployment processes.
  • The report, IDC Innovators: Cloud Platform-as-a-Service/PaaS Technologies, 2022 (Doc #US49790022), profiles five vendors in the cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technologies market whose solutions accelerate value for developers and their organizations.
  • It is not an exhaustive evaluation of all companies in a segment or a comparative ranking of the companies.
  • IDC INNOVATOR and IDC INNOVATORS are trademarks of International Data Group, Inc.
    For more information about IDC Innovators research, please contact Jen Melker at [email protected] .

EdgeDB Raises $15M Series A Round to Bring its Modernized Relational Database for Cutting-Edge Apps to the Cloud

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Monday, November 7, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeDB, a developer of the first open source, graph-relational database, today announced a $15M Series A investment led by Nava Ventures and Accel, with participation by industry heavyweights from Vercel, Firebase, GitHub, IBM, OpenAI, ICONIQ Capital, and Netlify. Launched in 2019, EdgeDB is reimagining relational databases with a focus on the developer experience. The company has seen rapid adoption of its database with 20,000+ monthly active users and 9.5 thousand stars on GitHub. The latest funding will be used to fuel development of EdgeDB Cloud and expand EdgeDB's development team. With this round, Daniel Levine, Accel Partner, and Freddie Martignetti, Nava Ventures Founder, will join the EdgeDB Board of Directors. 

Key Points: 
  • The company has seen rapid adoption of its database with 20,000+ monthly active users and 9.5 thousand stars on GitHub.
  • The latest funding will be used to fuel development of EdgeDB Cloud and expand EdgeDB's development team.
  • With this round, Daniel Levine, Accel Partner,and Freddie Martignetti, Nava Ventures Founder, will join the EdgeDB Board of Directors.
  • EdgeDB at its core is a relational database with an object-oriented data model, a strict graph schema, and a modern query language.

Vercel Acquires Splitbee to Expand Its First-Party, Privacy-Friendly Analytics Offering

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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With the addition of Splitbees innovations, Vercel Analytics aims to give brands of all sizes the in-depth website analytics they need without additional configuration.

Key Points: 
  • With the addition of Splitbees innovations, Vercel Analytics aims to give brands of all sizes the in-depth website analytics they need without additional configuration.
  • With the acquisition of Splitbee, Vercel Analytics now tracks visitor count in real-time and displays historical data so it's simple and accessible to understand trends over time.
  • Vercel Analytics helps with staying in the boundaries of GDPR while providing deep insights into the website's audience.
  • Co-founders of Splitbee, Timo Lins and Tobias Lins, will join Vercel to continue elevating these analytics tools for users.

Vercel Releases Next.js 13 at Next.js Conf

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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Vercel , the cloud platform for frontend developersand the creators and maintainers of Next.jsannounced today the release of Next.js 13 at Next.js Conf, which is hosted by Vercel and attracted 100,000 registrants.

Key Points: 
  • Vercel , the cloud platform for frontend developersand the creators and maintainers of Next.jsannounced today the release of Next.js 13 at Next.js Conf, which is hosted by Vercel and attracted 100,000 registrants.
  • When deployed to Vercel, the Image component is automatically stored and optimized on the Vercel Edge Network for even better performance.
  • With Next.js 13, Vercel unlocks server-first data-driven personalization, enabling developers to build online experiences that are dynamic without limits.
  • About Vercel: Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.

Grafbase Announces $7.3M in Funding to Build the Data Platform of the Future

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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With the fresh funding, Grafbase will accelerate its product development and double the size of the team.

Key Points: 
  • With the fresh funding, Grafbase will accelerate its product development and double the size of the team.
  • Grafbase is a remote-first company distributed across Europe and the US and is available for developers now.
  • All projects deployed to Grafbase come with a serverless database that is seamlessly integrated with every GraphQL API.
  • Grafbase is a data platform for developers that accelerates backend deployment via serverless GraphQL APIs.

Grafbase Announces $7.3M in Funding to Build the Data Platform of the Future

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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With the fresh funding, Grafbase will accelerate its product development and double the size of the team.

Key Points: 
  • With the fresh funding, Grafbase will accelerate its product development and double the size of the team.
  • Grafbase is a remote-first company distributed across Europe and the US and is available for developers now.
  • All projects deployed to Grafbase come with a serverless database that is seamlessly integrated with every GraphQL API.
  • Grafbase is a data platform for developers that accelerates backend deployment via serverless GraphQL APIs.

Checkly Announces Business Milestones, SOC 2 Compliance, New Playwright Test Runner, GitHub Sync, Enhanced Alert Notifications, and More

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022
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BOSTON, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today Checkly Inc., the only company with a synthetic app and API monitoring platform made for developers that bridges the gap between Dev, Ops, and QA, announced that over 600 customers and thousands of developers have adopted its platform to seamlessly integrate with their existing development workflows. The company has surpassed 3.5 Billion checks run by users implementing Checkly's end-to-end monitoring at speed and scale. The company also announced that it is updating the Checkly platform with a host of new product features, including a new Playwright test runner integration, mobile alerting improvements, and general availability of its new GitHub Sync feature to update and control Browser check code.

Key Points: 
  • SOC 2 is widely recognized as one of the most important and rigorous compliance standards related to managing customer data.
  • "We've hit a number of business milestones and doubled-down on support for Playwright, the leading open-source automation framework.
  • Native support for Playwright Test brings existing customer E2E scripts directly into Checkly with support for expect, trace files, video recordings and more.
  • About Checkly Checkly is the advanced synthetic app and API monitoring platform that bridges the gap between development, operations, and QA.

Cockroach Labs Defines its Vision for the Serverless Database at RoachFest 2022

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
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NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cockroach Labs, the company behind the leading cloud-native distributed SQL database CockroachDB, today announced the general availability of its serverless database. Cockroach Labs built CockroachDB serverless to help teams accelerate their software design cycle from prototype to production, eliminate operational overhead, and always ensure the right capacity—without overspending. In addition, the company released its migration tool CockroachDB Molt and integrations with Vercel, HashiCorp Vault, and Hashicorp Terraform. These updates reflect Cockroach Labs' deep commitment to helping developers build and scale world-class applications.

Key Points: 
  • Leading cloud database vendor releases migration tools, the general availability of CockroachDB serverless and integrations with HashiCorp's Vault and Terraform, as well as Vercel
    NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cockroach Labs, the company behind the leading cloud-native distributed SQL database CockroachDB, today announced the general availability of its serverless database.
  • Cockroach Labs built CockroachDB serverless to help teams accelerate their software design cycle from prototype to production, eliminate operational overhead, and always ensure the right capacitywithout overspending.
  • Cockroach Labs built CockroachDB to free teams from legacy relational databases and reduce operational overhead so they can spend more time innovating.
  • Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the most highly evolved, cloud-native, distributed SQL database on the planet.