In 1998, the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico began imaging every visible object from over 35% of the sky in a project known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The images include around 500 million stars and galaxies. Light from the most distant of th... (more…)

Berkeley, California – Julia Computing is pleased to announce seed funding of $4.6M from investors General Catalyst and Founder Collective. (more…)

Web apps are all the rage because of accessibility. However, there are usually problems with trying to modify some existing software to be a web app: specifically user interface and performance. In order for a web application to perform well, it must be a...

  Written in the productivity language Julia, the Celeste project—which aims to catalogue all of the telescope data for the stars and galaxies in in t... (more…)

How DigitalOcean got started, how they managed to position it in the market, how they overcame the technical and economic challenges they faced along the way, and what they’re planning for the future. (more…)