DevToolsDigest: Issue #302
This week's digest includes news and resources from Ubicloud, IT Revolution, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
InfraRed 100
InfraRed 100 honors 100 transformative companies in cloud infrastructure. These trailblazers have set new benchmarks for reliability, scalability, security, and innovation, enabling businesses to thrive in a cloud era and ushering a new paradigm of building applications. Every year, Redpoint plans to update this list and honor the latest companies that have excelled in building next generation cloud infrastructure solutions.
Taking on AWS with an Open Source Alternative
The Open Source Startup Podcast is a show on how to build a successful open source company. In this episode, they sit down with Umur Cubukcu, co-founder of Ubicloud, the open source and portable cloud that can reduce cloud spend by 3-10x. They dig into Ubicloud's grand vision of building a cloud service provider, where they're starting, why open source is a massive differentiator for them and more.
Ephemeral Software with Shared Data
An intriguing possibility: what if people using AI to build personal software tools leads to a next generation data architecture without cloud app silos? Now: imagine you're hitting limits with a tool you're using. What if you could just generate or customize your own alternative tool on the fly, with AI assistance?
Industry Research
Marketing Lessons from OpenAI, Retool and Stripe
Krithika Muthukumar has an extremely special lens into developer marketing. She worked at Stripe for almost 9 years, starting as their first marketing hire. Their core audience was—and is!—developers. She went on to run marketing and developer experience at Retool and today she is VP of Marketing at OpenAI. To say she is an expert in developer marketing is an understatement.
Unlocking the True Value of Your Internal Developer Platform Investments
In their insightful paper “Measuring the Value of Your Internal Developer Platform Investments” from the Spring 2024 Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal, authors Sridhar Kotagiri and Ajay Chankramath provide a comprehensive framework for articulating, measuring, and communicating the true worth of IDPs.
How Close is AI to Replacing Product Managers?
The AI industry moves fast, which leads to lots of confusion about what AI is actually good at. OpenAI, Anthropic, and all the other AI companies are constantly testing their latest models’ math, language, and coding abilities. However, these abstract benchmarks don’t tell us how much of your job AI is able to potentially replace, now or in the near future—which is really what we care about.
Developer Venture News
AI’s $600B Question
A huge amount of economic value is going to be created by AI. Company builders focused on delivering value to end users will be rewarded handsomely. We are living through what has the potential to be a generation-defining technology wave. Companies like Nvidia deserve enormous credit for the role they’ve played in enabling this transition, and are likely to play a critical role in the ecosystem for a long time to come.