Technical Recruiting Playbooks, Funding: Eppo, Fermyon and PicnicHealth, Big Product News

We had a fantastic time catching up with many of our friends and colleagues last week at OSS Summit. The Texas heat sure did not disappoint. Fermyon was onsite with a ?? sticker game, and Chainguard's Inky made its debut on Tiktok!

How to Pick and Work with an External Recruiter or Search Firm

In the latest episode of?Technical Recruiting Playbooks, Natasha Katoni addresses how you can pick and work with an external recruiter or search firm. She emphasizes that a successful partnership with an external firm includes strong calibration practices, reasonable expectations on the part of the hiring team, a smart payment structure, and previous success that allows you to feel confident in the firm’s abilities.?

Projects To Know Issue #110

Sarah Catanzaro released a special issue of Projects To Know focused on database and data management to celebrate SIGMOD. In Sarah's own words, "TLDR: Databases are so cool."

Building more effective data teams using the JTBD framework

Emilie Schario presents The JTBD (jobs to be done) Framework that can help #data teams prioritize the right work.

Eppo, the next-gen A/B experimentation platform bringing the high experiment velocity of Airbnb, Netflix, and Facebook to all companies, announced?$16M in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures and $3.5M in Seed funding led by Amplify. Natalie Vais gives an overview of the modern experimentation stack and our investment in Eppo on our blog.

Fermyon, the company pioneering this next wave of cloud computing with the first cloud-native WebAssembly PaaS that lets developers build better microservices faster, announced $6M in Seed funding led by Amplify. Sunil Dhaliwal and Renee Shah share more on our blog about our excitement for Fermyon.

PicnicHealth, a patient-centered health technology company, announced the closing of a $60M Series C financing led by B Capital Group. Amplify and Felicis also joined the round. The company also announced plans to build 30 new patient-centered real-world data cohorts.

• Covariant has been named the 2022 Best Overall Robotics Company by the AI Breakthrough awards, which recognize the top companies, technologies, and products in AI today.
• Chainguard announced a new @projectsigstore tool: Gitsign. In addition, in collaboration with the Linux Foundation and the OpenSSF, Chainguard?released a new Sigstore course.
• Datafold launched a new open-source product – data-diff that makes comparing datasets across databases fast at any scale.?
• Foxglove introduced Foxglove schemas: a Foxglove-native way to record your Protobuf, JSON, and ROS data.
• Gantry's documentation is now available.
• Hex introduced three new features that allow you to work with data at any scale: Query mode, Chained SQL, and Python pushdown.
• Maze unveiled Disco Conf, a two-day global, virtual conference that covers the intersection of design x research x product.
• OctoML released a major platform expansion to accelerate the development of AI-powered applications by eliminating bottlenecks in machine learning deployment.

• Hear how Tracy Miranda is building a more secure world at Chainguard on the From Code to Company podcast.
• Kim Lewandowski of Chainguard chats with Derrick Harris of Future about the concept of a secure software supply chain and why the idea has caught on so strongly over the past few years.?
• Maxim Fateev and Dominik Tornow of Temporal return to the Contributor podcast to explain how Temporal has grown and evolved over the last two years.