MCP is the new WWW
Over the past year, agentic AI has been loosely defined to mean anything from RAG to function calling and computer use. But what is an agent exactly? We now have an answer: agent = LLM + MCP. Primer For LLMs,…
Author: Javier Redondo
Announcing our investment in ClearVector
We’re excited to announce our Series A investment in ClearVector. ClearVector is building an identity-first cloud detection and response platform that gives security teams real-time visibility and control in cloud-native environments. In a world where infrastructure is ephemeral and everything…
Announcing our investment in Unwrap
Scale is thrilled to announce our lead investment in Unwrap’s Series A. Historically, product owners have relied heavily on quantitative insights to inform their roadmaps, but their ability to derive metrics from unstructured data sources has been limited. As a…
Announcing our investment in Fixify
Today, we're excited to announce our participation in Fixify's Series A. Fixify enables businesses to offer world-class IT support to their employees without the hassle and overhead of building a big internal team. Every organization with knowledge workers has IT…
The rise of advanced build systems
It’s 2024 and decades-old memes about building software still hold up. Despite advances in the DevOps stack – Docker for containerization, CircleCI for CI/CD, and Terraform for infrastructure as code – many engineering organizations still struggle to deliver fast, consistent,…
Postgres: One database to rule them all?
There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of databases available. Why? The real-world problem whose data is captured by the application needs to be represented by a model. Since the 1980s, most databases have adopted a relational model, which is associated with…
Open-sourcing the Scale chatbot
Applications that enable a natural language interface between people and data will be at the forefront of LLM enterprise adoption. At Scale, we launched a chatbot to increase access to information about our firm, but we also built it ourselves to gain an understanding of the solutions space. We've just published a blog post where we explore the architecture and share conclusions from this experience. We're also making the full source code available and free to use.
Stream processing becomes mainstream
We believe that we are at an inflection point where stream processing will become the standard that powers user-facing analytics. The growing importance of the use cases enabled by stream processing is being met with solutions that are increasingly easy to adopt.