Technology pioneer Mike Stonebraker raises $8.5M to launch DBOS and radically transform cloud computing
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Revolutionary cloud-native operating system is poised to disrupt cloud application development, making applications built using Typescript and other languages simpler to build, scale, and secureCAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- , developer of the worlds first cloud-native operating system, today announced that it has raised $8.5 million in Seed funding, and released its first product offering. Engine Ventures general partner, Reed Sturtevant, joins Andy Palmer, Michael Stonebraker, and Peter Kraft on the DBOS board. The company also announced the release of , a transactional serverless application development platform powered by DBOS, which makes cloud applications vastly easier to develop, deploy, and secure.Co-founded by Turing Award laureate and Postgres creator, Mike Stonebraker, Databricks co-founder and CTO, Matei Zaharia, and a joint team of computer scientists, DBOS is on a mission to dramatically simplify the way cloud applications are built, deployed, and secured.Based on years of joint MIT-Stanford research and development, the teams technological breakthrough is DBOS (database oriented operating system), which runs operating system services on top of a high-performance distributed database. The result is a scalable, fault-tolerant, and cyber-resilient foundation for cloud-native applications with the added ability to store all state, logs, and other system data in SQL-accessible tables. On top of that, DBOS enables self-detection of cyberattacks within seconds without the use of expensive external analytics tools, and it can restore itself to a pre-attack state in minutes.