At Luminal, we're unabashed fans of Unix and the Unix Philosophy. Last year, we marked the 49th anniversary of the Unix pipe (|) and we'd be remiss not to mark this year's golden date. We thought it would be fun to turn it over to members of our growing team to find out what the | means to them.
A Future of Cloud wraps up our three part series with a vision of clouds that become dynamic markets, that support ubiquitous movement of compute resources, and that usher in genuine fidelity of systems through native cloud patterns. This series also includes our previous posts, Minimum Viable Cloud and More than the Minimum.
Beyond Minimum Viable Cloud (MVC) are metaprogramming capabilities that allow you to compose and orchestrate systems efficiently across compute resources. Those capabilities are the centerpiece of mature cloud implementation.
We're bringing declarative control, intrinsic security, and efficiency to cloud computing.
Minimum Viable Cloud (MVC) refers to baseline features that cloud providers must offer in order to fully deliver on the promise of cloud. MVC allows developers and users to leverage intrinsic cloud patterns that are emerging and will continue to emerge for years. We explore those here.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) definitions enabled us to create generalized categories in the face of messy and irresolvable realities. This is a necessary act for decision-making, but it carries with it the possibility of misreading scope. Continued adoption of the defined buckets rolls on in a manner that doesn't account for other perspectives, ones the taxonomy was never intended to preclude. A limited perception takes hold in the marketplace and in the media, filtering to the general public.
When a new technology that has broad relevance arrives, it tends to develop along a lifecycle that is more or less similar to that of other innovations over time. It may or may not follow the diffusion of innovation, dependent on market adoption of the technology. Understanding this lifecycle is a prerequisite for knowing when and how to apply standards successfully.
Luminal was awarded the top prize in the InvestMaryland Challenge (cybersecurity category). We’re honored to have won in a category with such tough competitors.
The exterior walls of Luminal’s downtown Frederick headquarters are made of brick. But the company isn’t focused on walls. Its software aims to make a computer system more secure from the inside, instead of relying only on exterior defenses.
We’re excited to announce that Luminal has closed a $3.8MM Series A financing round with Core Capital Partners, Maryland Venture Fund, New Enterprise Associates, and other investors. The round includes the conversion of $1.1MM in convertible debt the company raised in August 2012.