Rubrik Launches Open Source Community Called Build

Rubrik announced an open source community, Rubrik Build, which aims to simplify improvement of existing projects and ease creation of applications, automation tooling, and integrations. It’s based on a set of APIs providing pre-built use cases, quick-start guides, and integrations with popular tooling. A goal is inclusion. “Many people in the tech community do not come from a traditional software engineering background, and this can make contributing to open source seem daunting,” Rubrik Principal Technologist Rebecca Fitzhugh told SDxCentral. “The goal of Rubrik Build is to break down these barriers so anyone can contribute to a project.” The data management startup, which last month closed a $261 million Series E funding, puts APIs at the core of what it does, not the periphery, Fitzhugh added. “From a high level, the Rubrik Cloud Data Management Platform helps customers solve for the complexity and data fragmentation created as a result of dealing with a myriad of software applications across the hybrid cloud,” Fitzhugh wrote in an email. “Rubrik APIs make it simple to build solutions that solve that complexity.”