Unlocking The Value Of Data: Our Investment In Cube Dev
Every Company Is A Software Company Built On Data
With the advent of public cloud infrastructure, it has never been so easy to create and store data. Events, logs, infrastructure telemetry, customer activity — enterprises are awash in data to run and understand their businesses. This data is being stored across a variety of cloud storage repositories, object storage, block storage, document databases, and data lakes. Software engineers have been equipped with easy to provision infrastructure and access to an abundance of enterprise data. They are seeking new ways to unlock value for their employers and are building new applications at a fervent pace. Value comes in many forms, whether it be internal dashboards or customer-facing SaaS applications, but at the core of these new apps are lots of data.
However, Building Data Pipelines To Serve Up In-app Analytics Is A Major Pain Point
The heterogeneity of data types, combined with the disparate sources in which important business data lives, introduces friction into the application development process. How do you create flexible, responsive, and interactive web apps? Today, engineers are forced to work across the stack, building adaptive SQL queries, caching layers and flexible schemas for every data source that they want to access. This makes the application development lifecycle difficult and complex.
Introducing Cube Dev, An Analytical API Platform That Unlocks Data Value For Engineers Without Any Headaches
We are thrilled to announce our lead investment in Cube Dev’s $6M Seed financing. Cube Dev vastly improves developer productivity by abstracting away data-querying infrastructure into a simple API. What’s more, its open-source solution provides engineers with the flexibility and independence they need when building analytical web apps. These engineers can use Cube Dev’s Cube.Js platform to query any data with low latency, flexible transformations, and a consistent API schema.
Cube Dev Is Backed By An Impressive Core Team And A Rapidly Growing Open-Source Community
We are honored to have the opportunity to work with Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov, co-founders of Cube Dev. Artyom and Pavel are an impressive pair who understand the needs of developers and have fostered Cube Dev from the open-source NodeJS framework into a large and thriving global developer community. Since they made Cube.js available for free on GitHub in March, it has been downloaded over 70,000 times, attaining unprecedented scale and popularity among developers seeking to quickly and efficiently build sophisticated analytics applications.
We look forward to the next chapter of Cube Dev’s growth and are excited to partner early with Artyom and Pavel, two visionary founders with the technical chops and trusted developer relationships to grow Cube Dev into the next open-source powerhouse.
