Dharmesh Thakker

Netflix helped change the game for microservices when it developed and the outsourced a tool called Conductor, initially built to handle its own extensive, multi-channel on-demand video traffic (and correspondingly…

Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

Battery Ventures’ State of the OpenCloud report provides a set of data points that pretty clearly outline the accelerated growth of cloud services in recent quarters.

We’re still just scratching the surface of the cloud’s potential

Companies use data to build models that they use to automate decisions, but without visibility, it’s difficult to determine if the models are accountable, fair and responsible.

Battery Ventures leads Arize AI’s $19M round for ML observability

We’ve seen a lot of trend lines moving throughout 2020 and into 2021 around automation, workflow, robotic process automation (RPA) and the movement to low-code and no-code application building. While…

No code, workflow and RPA line up for their automation moment

About a decade ago, I remember having a conversation with a friend about big data. At the time, we both agreed that it was the purview of large companies like…

9 investors discuss hurdles, opportunities and the impact of cloud vendors in enterprise data lakes

The coronavirus pandemic is, without doubt, the greatest challenge the world has faced in a generation. But the wheels of the world keep turning, albeit slower than during normal times.…

Top cybersecurity VCs share how COVID-19 has changed investing

Four years ago, Adnan Asar, the founder of the new dependence prevention service Lucid Lane, was enjoying a successful career working as the founding chief technology officer at Livongo Health.…

Lucid Lane has developed a service to get patients off of pain meds and avoid dependence

Startup founders don’t typically launch a company as a get-rich-quick scheme. Most know that it will be a long, hard slog if they are to succeed. There will be lean…

Startup founders need to decide how much salary is enough