DevToolsDigest: Issue #245
This week's digest includes news and resources from G2, Fixie, InfluxData, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
G2: Best Development Products for 2023
To qualify for the best Development software list, products must be listed under one or more of the Development child categories. Development software includes on-premise and SaaS tools for businesses to track and manage the software development process.
Introducing Fixie.ai: A New Way to Build with Large Language Models
Fixie is a cloud-hosted Platform-as-a-Service that enables anyone to build and integrate smart agents that leverage the power of LLMs to solve problems based on natural language. Think of Fixie like a way of building a ChatGPT-like experience that can be infinitely extended with new capabilities and interfaces to any software system.
Industry Research
Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…
There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today. However the concept of platform engineering is an old one, and Adrian Cockcroft explains the principles and a model that he thinks works well for how to architect platforms in general.
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work?
Developer Venture News
InfluxData Lands $51M to Grow Its Time Series Database Offerings
In late 2013, Errplane, a Y Combinator-backed startup, began developing an open source project called InfluxDB for database performance monitoring and alerting. After raising several million in financing from VC firms, Errplane changed its name to InfluxData — and went on to raise tens of millions more in capital.
From the Heavybit Library
The ROI of Great Technical Onboarding with Postman's Joyce Lin
Achieving quick Time-to-Value is a foundational element of great customer onboarding, but for technical products that require certain expertise and resource intensive implementation periods, it can take weeks or even months to get your customers to a great "ah-ha" moment.
Partnering with Design: Getting to Efficient Cross-Disciplinary Teams
Focused on the product team, and told from a designer’s point of view, growth strategist and former LaunchDarkly Design Director, Melissa Patenaude, explores how to move from a small team of engineers to an efficient product-engineering-design team.