DevToolsDigest: Issue #258
This week's digest includes news and resources from Armory, Aserto, Fermyon, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
API Management Is a Commodity: What’s Next?
APIs appear to be reaching new levels of adoption, as organizations rely on them for more and more daily business activities and new sources of revenue. While API management has become a commodity, the industry must address five new areas: regulation, verticalization, security, foundational business infrastructure and no-code development.
The Next Generation of Serverless is Happening
A new wave of serverless is emerging with some key differentiators against the first wave. And a few companies have now broken away from the pack, showing off these new features.
Industry Research
Software Deployment Pain Points and Risks for Developers
Software developers should be able to focus on building code rather than deploying it. But, software deployment often can be a complex process that comes with pain points like: customer outages, less time spent on innovation, lack of consistency, and numerous manual steps. In short, software deployment remains time-consuming, risky, and unreliable.
Why AI Will Save The World
AI is a computer program like any other – it runs, takes input, processes, and generates output. AI’s output is useful across a wide range of fields, ranging from coding to medicine to law to the creative arts. It is owned by people and controlled by people, like any other technology.
The Evolution of Fine-grained Access Control
Cloud-native authorization is a complex problem that has yet to be entirely solved. As a result, every cloud application is reinventing the wheel. In the past several years there's been a lot of buzz about fine-grained access control. Read on for an overview of the key ideas and best practices that have emerged.
Developer Venture News
AI Investing Boom is Not New to Tech Giants
While AI’s dominance of the new cycle may seem recent, for tech’s biggest software developers, chipmakers and hyperscalers, artificial intelligence has had their attention — and money — for years, according to Crunchbase data.
From the Heavybit Library
How to Design a Better Billing System for Your Startup
With the growing demand for product-led growth strategies, the hidden technical debt of billing systems is a looming issue many organizations overlook. However, billing systems can often provide the backbone to startups scaling their go-to-market from the bottom up.