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Traffic to the Astronomer company’s website jumped more than 15,000% after the viral Coldplay clip

Well, that’s one way to drive some traffic to your software company’s website.

After a clip from the Coldplay concert in Boston went viral, traffic to “astronomer.io” — the website of the SAAS enterprise run by (now former) CEO Andy Byron — exploded in true viral style. According to data from Similarweb, daily visits clocked in at more than 1.4 million on July 17.

That’s roughly 150x the typical traffic that the website was getting on a daily basis, with average daily page visits clocking in at just over 9,000 from June 21 to July 16, Similarweb data shows.

But the deluge of visitors were probably disappointed upon their arrival, with the company’s main product significantly less entertaining than its CEO’s antics. Per the company’s website, its product “empowers your team to build, run, and observe data pipelines that just work, all from one place.”

Surely, out of the millions of people looking the company up, there is someone who thought: wait, my company does actually need something just like this.

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Solar generated more power than coal for the first time in US history

At the same time that the Trump administration is pushing further toward coal power, announcing plans only last week to invest almost $700 million into reviving the industry, a key renewable energy source has just hit a major milestone in the US.

New data from energy think tank Ember, released Wednesday, shows that solar supplied 12.8% of US energy generation in May — marking not only the highest share ever recorded for the clean energy source, but also the first time that solar has generated more monthly energy than coal in the US, which supplied 12.2%.

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US and Iran trade strikes overnight amid peace talks

Hours after President Donald Trump dismissed a report regarding a deal to restore traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the US and Iran exchanged fresh strikes early on Thursday.

Despite an ongoing ceasefire as the countries hold talks to end the conflict, the US carried out new strikes inside Iran, The Guardian reports, prompting a retaliatory attack from Iran on a US airbase in Kuwait.

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