Money for IaaS, money for streaming data
$83 million for Digital Ocean, with its bare-bones spin on cloud-based infrastructure… and $24 million for Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka. Digital Ocean’s not an AWS-killer (and doesn’t think it is, either), and Kafka addresses a rather specific set of use cases around messaging between devices and/or application components… but both are solid pieces of […]
Microsoft and Docker doesn’t make enough sense
Microsoft and Docker doesn’t make enough sense: Over at Fortune, Barb Darrow and Jonathan Vanian speculate on rumours that Microsoft might be sniffing around containerisation champion Docker. Docker has, of course, denied the rumours. But, more importantly, the acquisition just doesn’t make enough sense to justify the multi-billion dollar valuation. The project is open source. The […]
