Here at Work-Bench, we strongly believe that great businesses can be built by commercializing open source projects that target an acute pain point and cultivate developer love.
Daniel Chesley
The market for software observability and debugging continues to evolve owing to the range of tools and modern technologies that are re-thinking how it can be done reliably.
Priyanka Somrah
One of the investment themes I’ve been researching has been around the applicability of foundation models for a wide variety of tasks and the opportunity that it represents for the enterprise.
Despite the many databases available on the market, developers still confront a host of challenges when interacting with them like issues with data capacity or cost management.
Rani Kubersky
On a recent call with an engineer at a unicorn startup, he said that he wouldn’t work at a company that doesn’t use Nix. At the same time, he’s seen developers leave companies because they use Nix.
Conventional PAM solutions are based on the flawed premise that the management controls used to create, configure and administer IT resources can be neatly packaged in a limited number of privileged accounts and that access to these accounts can be restricted to a limited number of privileged users.
Work-Bench
As ransomware and major vulnerabilities run rampant, security has remained a high priority for organizations even during the recent downturn.
Kelley Mak
The movement towards real-time streaming infrastructures is finally crystalizing. In the last 3 years alone, I’ve observed a growing number of startups and products...
For this article, we’re defining “serverless” as an application built using a suite of managed deployment and infrastructure services from a cloud provider like AWS, GCP, or Azure. Our focus is on truly serverless deployments that use some combination of the following.
Ayush Kapur
“CIO Perspectives” is a white paper series by Mark Settle that explores the top-of-mind technical issues confronting today’s CIOs and IT leaders.
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In 2020, the acceleration of digital transformation initiatives and rise of distributed workforces created wide open gaps in enterprises’ security defenses.
The Work-Bench Snapshot Series explores a particular topic we’re digging into from an investment standpoint.
Jessica Lin
As an early stage investor at Work-Bench, I’ve been keeping an active pulse on the data ecosystem by speaking with data practitioners, startup founders, and corporate executives from our network.
While the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided for businesses, one of its main legacies is how it ushered in a tidal wave of accelerated digital transformation.
The Work-Bench Snapshot Series explores the top people, blogs, videos, and more, shaping the enterprise on a particular topic we’re looking at from an investment standpoint.
A core area that we track at Work-Bench is the adoption of DevOps and what the transition looks like in practice for large enterprises.