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With Massdriver, engineers can provision secure, production-ready cloud infrastructure in minutes without cloud expertise using a simple diagramming interface.**\n\nHey all, we’re Cory, Chris, and David, the team behind [Massdriver.](https://massdriver.cloud) We’re on a mission to radically simplify cloud infrastructure management and ‘DevOps.’\n\n## 😢 The Problem\n\nFor many organizations, DevOps is no longer a set of practices and culture. It’s a separate team with its own backlog slowing down your product development. Software today isn’t simply code on a computer. It’s a series of ~~tubes~~ APIs and services stitched together with YAML, tools like Terraform, and complex IAM rules. A bunch of boring plumbing that is slowing down your feature velocity.\n\n## 🪄 Our Solution\n\nMassdriver is a visual development platform that lets engineers focus on what services they need from the cloud and easily connect them without worrying about implementation details. Massdriver takes care of secret management, provisioning, parity, best practices, and IAM so your team can focus on your product. Our infrastructure and application bundles are open source, so you can modify them as your organization evolves or create your own and extend the platform.\n\n## ⚙ How It Works\n\nDevelopers can quickly connect dozens of pre-built infrastructure and application bundles designed by industry experts to provision secure production-ready infrastructure in minutes. Massdriver focuses on developer needs, not the implementation details of infrastructure, making it easy for developers of any caliber to get great infrastructure instantly.\n\nOur pre-built infrastructure bundles can be forked and modified, and the community can also design their own bundles using Terraform and Helm to extend the platform.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66021&key=user_uploads/920899/fea74a72-ac18-49a6-bdc5-f8e8af425525)\n\n## 🚀 Out of This World Features\n\n* Parity management with replication support for infrastructure and applications between regions, environments, and cloud accounts\n* Integrated secret management that injects credentials directly into your applications environment variables\n* Automated principle of least privilege for IAM\n* Dozens of best-practice reference architecture infrastructure bundles to get started, each open-sourced and designed by industry experts\n* Compliance and security scanning for official infrastructure bundles\n* Activity and audit logs of every change to ease your path to compliance\n* Visually compare differences between environments like staging and production or between deployments\n* Integrated alerting and monitoring\n* Application support for containerized and serverless workloads\n* Enterprise-ready deployments for SaaS products - your product in your customer's cloud account today.\n\n## 🙏 Asks\n\nTry it out! Feel free to register on the site and try it out; no credit card is required. 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Completely automate your infra docs and compliance materials.", "body": "Hi we are Dan and Phi…\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/00d3f03c-7be2-4245-be6a-b1ac5931d882)\n\n… and we are building Pluralith!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/f7d9a731-4769-423f-9dfd-7bdf920137e6)\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nTitle says it all. Pluralith lets you generate instant infrastructure diagrams from your Terraform codebase, locally (for development) and in CI (for documentation). [**Try it out here!**](https://docs.pluralith.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/9884a243-92d0-46ea-92f7-7dcd0cedb91c)\n\n### **Watching > Reading**\n\nSo here’s a [freshly baked demo](https://youtu.be/Jbbil9kA-EE) just for you!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/42257960-a912-40f1-acb6-f089d4da1153)\n\n### **The Problem(s)**\n\n**Problem 1**: Infrastructure documentation is super important and often even required for proper compliance, but can be really time intensive and nobody wants to do it. So you’ve got two options:\n\n→ Stay compliant and have good docs **BUT** loads of dev hours spent on them\n\n→ No/few dev hours spent on docs **BUT** break compliance and no docs when you need them\n\n**Problem 2**: Terraform is awesome, but can become quite messy and intransparent at scale. Understanding what is actually going on requires digging through loads of code and terminal output. Again, lots of dev hours lost here.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/1fc7af56-e700-4227-bcb9-0fc872b49446)\n\n### **The Solution: Enter Pluralith**\n\n**_Pluralith completely automates problem 1 away._**\n\nRun it in CI, automate parts of your compliance process and always have up-to-date infra diagrams whenever you need them. We throw them into PR comments and have a dedicated markdown integration so you can plug it straight into your existing docs (ReadMes, Confluence etc.). We do change highlighting, drift detection, cost calculations and compliance checks (coming soon) and keep a history of all this stuff in your Dashboard for you so you have a perfect record on how your infra changes over time.\n\n**_Pluralith alleviates problem 2._**\n\nReplace miles of terminal output on a terraform plan with a comprehensive diagram that shows you what your infrastructure looks like, how it’ll change on apply, how much it’ll cost and wether it breaks compliance (coming soon). All you have to do is run `pluralith plan` instead.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/079e25e0-225e-443b-b052-3eaab564aa50)\n\n### **How It Works**\n\n**Locally**: Download our desktop app and follow it’s setup guide. In a minute you should be able to run `pluralith plan` in any of your Terraform project directories and get a diagram instantly.\n\n**In CI**: The illustration below says it all. Set up Terraform in your pipeline, run Pluralith and there you go. Right now we have dedicated integrations for _GitHub Actions_ and _Gitlab CI._ (Many more to come)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/42ca4f68-1bff-48c5-a0c0-e9b1c3786746)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/0f6a5cbc-52d6-4a6c-bfdf-bb4672190d94)\n\n### **Help Us Out?**\n\n→ [**Give it a run**](https://docs.pluralith.com) (either in CI or locally) and let us know all the ways our stuff broke through the emails below!\n\n→ Our open source CLI is looking for some stars. 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We’re Samrose & Shaeq and we are excited to launch [Matano](https://github.com/matanolabs/matano).\n\n### TL;DR\n\n**Matano is a high-scale, low-cost, zero-ops alternative to traditional SIEM (e.g. Splunk) that deploys a security data lake directly in your AWS account.** It lets you ingest petabytes of security and log data from various sources, store and query them in an open [Apache Iceberg](https://iceberg.apache.org/) data lake, and create Python detections as code for realtime alerting. Matano is fully serverless and designed specifically for AWS.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68262&key=user_uploads/785948/5ec8b84a-df7a-44d1-914b-2c30af3dc2fa)\n\n### **Problem**\n\n* Traditional tools used to analyze security data (SIEMs) don’t scale, and are too expensive and difficult to manage for security teams on the cloud.\n* Security data is now a Big Data problem: collecting data from your network, SaaS, and cloud environments can exceed 100TBs of data. Security teams are forced to either not collect some data, leave data unprocessed, or build an in-house data lake to cost-effectively analyze large datasets.\n* At scale, without a strategy to normalize data into a structured format, it is difficult to correlate across data sources & build effective alerts that don’t create many false positives. Traditional SIEM query-based rules fail to accurately identify threats.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nWe’re leveraging our years of experience at AWS in Big Data and cloud technologies to build a modern alternative to SIEM designed from the ground up for efficiency, scalability, cost effectivity, and vendor neutrality.\n\n![](https://www.matano.dev/assets/images/diagram-09d3bbd00cb55ab585125b7a7ec452c6.webp)\n\n* **Security Data Lake** Matano normalizes unstructured security logs into a structured realtime data lake in your AWS account. All data is stored in optimized Parquet files in S3 object storage for cost-effective retention & analysis at petabyte scale.\n* **No vendor lock-in** Matano lets you truly own your own security data. Cybersecurity vendors lock your data in proprietary formats which make it very difficult to use outside of their product. With Matano, all your data is in open Apache Iceberg tables that can can be directly queried from different tools (AWS Athena, Snowflake, etc.) without having to copy any data.\n* **Detection-as-code** Matano gives you the flexibility of Python to implement realtime alerting on your log data and introduce a development lifecycle to detection by managing rules in Git (test, code review, audit).\n* **Serverless** ​​Matano is a fully serverless platform built entirely on technologies like Lambda, S3, and SQS and is designed for zero-ops and unlimited elastic horizontal scaling. Matano uses Rust for blazing fast performance [🦀](https://emojiterra.com/crab/).\n* **Open source** Matano is licensed as Apache 2.0 and always will be. Matano uses an open table format (Apache Iceberg) and common schemas ([Elastic Common Schema](https://github.com/elastic/ecs)), to give you full ownership of your security data.\n\n### **Ask**\n\n* If you’re a security team interested in using Matano, feel free to reach out over email at [founders@matano.dev](mailto:founders@matano.dev).\n* Try out our project and star [⭐](https://emojipedia.org/star/) us on GitHub: .\n* Join our [Discord community](https://discord.gg/YSYfHMbfZQ)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hl0-matano-open-source-siem-alternative-for-aws", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2023-01-09T00:57:23.279Z" } ] }, { "id": 27809, "name": "EdgeBit", "slug": "edgebit", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/129c0d512b87fa767fbbc001172d26269d9a0ab0.png", "website": "https://edgebit.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "EdgeBit was acquired by FOSSA in July 2025: https://fossa.com/blog/fossa-acquires-edgebit/\r\n\r\nEdgeBit enables engineering teams to ship security updates 10x faster with confidence by automating dependency update analysis. 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In the past, he designed the foundational layers for high-frequency trading, contributed to the container runtimes, and implemented graph algorithms for continent size road networks.\n\nLately he has been on a mission to secure workloads and in 2022 he teamed up with Rob and Russell to tackle the problem, starting with fixing the vulnerability fire hose.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugene-yakubovich-4640604/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/eyakubovich", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c569124aefb1e5e87e2e6cae1108ec324218e46d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "FOSSA Acquires EdgeBit: From Scanning to Updating", "url": "https://fossa.com/blog/fossa-acquires-edgebit/", "date": "Sep 28, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69144, "title": "EdgeBit - Secure your software supply chain", "tagline": "Supply chain analysis that eliminates noise in vulnerability response", "body": "tl;dr: [EdgeBit](https://edgebit.io) automatically inventories software dependencies, ensures they are trusted, and monitors vulnerabilities – securing your software supply chain. For security teams, we help you meet new compliance requirements about the libraries and packages in your products. For engineers, we make vulnerability investigation/patching streamlined, so you can get back to writing code.\n\nHi everyone, we are Rob, Russell and Eugene, the team behind [EdgeBit](https://edgebit.io).\n\nWe’re on a mission to make software secure by default. EdgeBit deeply understands how your app is built, what makes it up and how it’s running. That knowledge builds up trust to make developers lives easier, and your entire server fleet more secure.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69144&key=user_uploads/230598/b3341e0d-c53a-49b4-a31a-c5d9a5fa6c8c)\n\nLeft - [Eugene](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugene-yakubovich-4640604/) - Chief Architect and low level hacker. He worked on pathfinding algorithms at Lyft, container networking at CoreOS and performance optimization in his high frequency trading days.\n\nCenter - [Rob](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robszumski/) - CEO and product leader. He was a Director of Product at Red Hat working on the OpenShift/Kubernetes platform after their acquisition of CoreOS (YC S13).\n\nRight - [Russell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellhaering/) - CTO and master of backend systems. He ran security engineering at Okta after their acquisition of ScaleFT, the zero trust access management startup he cofounded.\n\n## The Problem: securing software still feels like throwing problems over a wall\n\nSecurity teams have important work to do – meeting a maze of compliance rules against a constantly moving target of dependencies, frameworks and deployment platforms. Automation is key, but security teams aren’t experts in each app, so “open a ticket for any vulnerability found” is a typical workflow. This is a firehose for app teams, and tickets don’t contain the context needed for a speedy investigation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69144&key=user_uploads/230598/201aef87-ad12-4842-9b9d-f423f8ccd315)\n\nLooking beyond compliance, real attacks are happening via software dependencies. For a single library, it’s tricky to securely download, integrate, sign and verify it…and very hard for 100s of dependencies across multiple apps. An enterprise can use [40,000 open-source software packages](https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/05/supply_chain_security_efforts/) each bringing another 77 dependencies.\n\nAn end-to-end system across the build→scan→run→monitor is required to stop these attacks. Dependencies are fragmented across OS packages, standalone binaries and containers, but a single view across all is required to understand the full attack surface.\n\n## EdgeBit: Map your supply chain from build to production in real time\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69144&key=user_uploads/230598/9872f16b-3980-4c64-bf6f-fe47a5f82262)\n\nEdgeBit builds up context and trust by observing your software from build until deployment to your server fleet. How does it work? Install EdgeBit into your build pipeline and your server fleet/Kubernetes cluster via a tiny agent to immediately enable teams to bring vulnerabilities under control:\n\n* Security: track workload signatures, provenance and prevent malicious modification\n* Compliance: build a real time inventory tracked back to the software’s bill of materials (SBOM)\n* Engineering: prioritize vulnerability investigation based on deep context\n* Enterprises: track patching across teams. 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Traditional scanning tools attempt to catch these leaks using rigid regex patterns and keyword matching.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90617&key=user_uploads/2475147/274a7869-42fd-41fc-86f4-668846d4d01e)\n\nHowever, these methods struggle with secrets that don't follow set patterns, allowing critical leaks like these to slip through undetected.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90617&key=user_uploads/2475147/e67f96a4-a636-461e-9434-93a92f23f1ff)\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nUnlike legacy tools that rely on regular expressions, BitPatrol uses our proprietary machine learning model to detect secrets based on code context and developer intent – not just string patterns.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90617&key=user_uploads/2475147/243b128a-4438-4e39-bf3b-7c6c1b8e3d32)\n\nOnce our model flags a potential secret, we reference it against our dataset of billions of public commits, docker images, and open source packages. This helps us rapidly assess the secret's exposure frequency, drastically reducing false positives and solving the issue of alert fatigue.\n\nUsing our [GitHub App](https://github.com/apps/bitpatrol), you can trigger actions that occur when a secret is detected, including automated alerts and custom workflows to immediately respond and remediate when a secret is leaked.\n\n### **The Team**\n\nBitPatrol was founded by [Chris Lambert](https://www.linkedin.com/in/~chris), a former Stripe engineer who quickly rose to the top 2% globally on HackerOne after uncovering secret leaks at some of the world’s largest companies—many of which were actively using our competitor’s tools.\n\n### 🙏 **Ask: How You Can Help**\n\n* **Try BitPatrol:** Install our [GitHub App](https://github.com/apps/bitpatrol) and experience immediate, real-time secret detection.\n* **Connect with Us:** If you know a technical leader concerned about protecting their company from secret leaks in code, please connect them to [founders@bitpatrol.io](mailto:founders@bitpatrol.io)\n\n### 🔥 **The Deal**\n\nTo celebrate our launch, we’re offering:\n\n* **Free 2024 Company Secret Leak Audit**\n * External-only scan — requires no internal data access\n * Deep, high-coverage audit of your public code surface (commits, mobile apps, etc.)\n * Request an [audit here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBwBwk9-tizbOo1y3Aj9aK6jXeX8QNKJIhwEFTp0OuvhcNAg/viewform?usp=header)\n* **Exclusive early-adopter pricing**\n * Just $20/dev/month for real-time secret scanning with our [GitHub App](https://github.com/apps/bitpatrol)\n\nDon’t let vibe coding turn into your next major breach—secure your code with BitPatrol today.\n\n👉 [Get started at BitPatrol.io](https://bitpatrol.io/) or reach out directly: [founders@bitpatrol.io](mailto:founders@bitpatrol.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NZZ-bitpatrol-secret-detection-that-actually-works", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2025-05-21T20:55:32.897Z" } ] }, { "id": 30651, "name": "Alter", "slug": "alter", "former_names": [ "Alter AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3a30946452aaca1a7c8b4b8fefafd9807f194243.png", "website": "https://alterauth.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Alter is a zero-trust identity and access control platform purpose-built for AI agents. 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