DevToolsDigest: Issue #257

The Week in Developer Tools

Cloud Dependencies Need to Stop F—ing Us When They Go Down

With each external cloud service you deploy, you introduce the amount of unreliability that product has into your own product’s reliability (even if it’s incredibly small). Because most vendors refuse to provide visibility into their platforms, we’re left scrambling and asking ourselves, “Is it me or them?”

All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About when Building Products with LLMs

There’s a lot of hype around AI, and in particular, Large Language Models (LLMs). To be blunt, a lot of that hype is just some demo bullshit that would fall over the instant anyone tried to use it for a real task that their job depends on. The reality is far less glamorous: it’s hard to build a real product backed by an LLM.

Industry Research

The State of Observability 2023: Realizing ROI and Increasing Digital Resilience

Observability isn’t novel, but we’re still grasping the full range of its impact and ability to make organizations more digitally resilient: from faster fixes and fewer outages to greater ROI and complete confidence in apps’ reliability.

The State of Data Engineering 2023

A lot has happened since 2022, from the rise of Generative AI to the economic slowdown and job losses impacting data practitioners in 2023. In fact, it’s safe to say that the GenAI hype doesn’t seem to be high enough to counterbalance the influence of the struggling economy, as the demand for data practitioners is now declining, after having risen for the last 15 years.

Developer Venture News

Skip the Line

As a founder you are heads down in the details about your business. You know every piece of the product and can dynamically adapt as you talk to potential customers. Your VC partner will never be as deep as you are, but they have a much broader context. The ongoing way in which your VC builds that context can also useful to you.