Hello Dgraph community,
I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce myself - I’m Maggie Johnson-Pint, and I am the Vice President of Product and Engineering at Istari Digital - the new stewards of Dgraph. We are thrilled to welcome the Dgraph community to Istari!
You can read our official press release about this acquisition here - but as a long time open source maintainer and the new engineering owner of Dgraph, I wanted to connect with the community here directly, and try to address initial questions that might come up.
Who is Istari Digital, and why do you want an open source graph database?
Istari creates a platform for aerospace and mechanical engineers to convert vendor-locked engineering data into vendor-neutral formats, and leverage that data to create powerful workflows to validate designs of hardware. I often describe us as “GitHub for Planes”.
As AI technology has taken off, Istari has found a need to represent more complex data models and relationships inside distributed networks. Acquiring Dgraph enables us to accelerate delivery of new engineering data features to our customers, while ensuring performance, scalability, compliance with Department of Defense security policy, and our commitment to open data.
What happens next?
Our first priority at Istari, is to ensure that Dgraph is a well-maintained project for the community - something that only grows more important as we deepen our own usage. Raphael Derbier joins us from Hypermode, and will be the primary representative to the community going forward. We also have several members of the Dgraph engineering team joining us to ensure continuity.
We are only just beginning to develop an understanding of the exact roadmap for Dgraph, but we do know that we are excited to bring new data features that are impactful for our existing customers in the US Federal and Aerospace markets - many of whom are also Dgraph customers and users. With these customers as a focus, you can be assured we will be doubling down on performance, scalability, and security.
Looking forward to the journey ahead!
Maggie
