The backstory of our 2020 Series A lead investment into Astronomer. — — originally posted at ethanjb.com — The backstory of our 2020 Series A lead investment into Astronomer. Ten years ago, the modern enterprise stack looked quite a bit different. Teams of network admins managing data centers, running one application per server, deploying monolithic services, through waterfall processes, with staged releases managed by an entire role labeled “release manager.”

Sharing the problem areas and opportunities that could see new entrants rapidly grow A year ago, we decided to start open-sourcing our thinking around problems areas of interest, starting with 15 Problem Spaces in Developer Tools & Infrastructure We’re Excited About at Venrock. With the hope that it would spark…

Time to build infrastructure closer to how we build software. — This post was originally authored and published as a guest article for Venture Beat, see it here Engineers are great at making hard things possible. Then repeatable. Then automatable. Then run on their own. Software development has repeated this cycle over and over. …

So much of how we build and deliver software has changed, yet so much has stayed the same. UNIX, the original operating architecture that underpins our modern stack, was introduced 50 years ago. Linux, the dominant server operating system, was introduced 30 years ago. We rely on virtual machines, introduced…

Listen to the episode here: ‎The Outer Join: An Intentional Approach to Open-Source with Abby Kearns, former CTO at Puppet Labs… Venrock partner Ethan Batraski interviews Abby Kearns, most recently the CTO at Puppet and previously, CEO at the Cloud…podcasts.apple.com Venrock partner Ethan Batraski interviews Abby Kearns, most recently the CTO at Puppet and previously CEO at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, about her experiences building in open-source, open-source licensing, separating open-source projects from commercial product strategies, and more.

Announcing our seed investment into Dgraph — The Database Shift Thanks to the cloud, the amount of data being generated and stored has exploded in scale and volume. Every aspect of the enterprise is being instrumented for data so new operations are built based on that data. Pushing every company to become a data company. One of the most profound…

Excited to share the backstory of our seed investment into Meltano Data is transforming the Enterprise The amount of data being generated and stored has exploded in scale and volume. Every aspect of the enterprise is being instrumented for data with the goal of unlocking new capabilities and building an edge. …

Announcing our Seed and Series A investments into Decodable — Beginnings of the real-time data enterprise Data is rapidly transforming every industry. Brick & mortar stores are now turning into micro-distribution centers through real-time inventory management. Organizations are delivering 10x customer experience building up-to-the-second 360 customer views. Complex logistics services having real-time views into operational performance are delivering more on-time than ever before. …

Congratulations to Ben, Jonathan, Rob, and the team at Atom Computing on the close of their $60M Series B, and welcome to our new friends at Third Point Ventures and Prime Movers Labs to the team! — Since announcing Atom Computing’s seed round in 2018, we thought it would be…