DevToolsDigest: Issue #340
This week's digest includes news and resources from The Software House, Autify, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Valkey is 1: How the Community Fork Left Redis in the Dust
A year ago, Redis Inc (formerly Garantia Data) made a controversial move that disrupted the open source ecosystem: it closed the source of Redis. But instead of splintering, the community responded with purpose. Out of that disruption came Valkey, a fork that took a shot at keeping the community alive.
A Complete Guide to End to End Testing
Looking to master end-to-end testing? This guide breaks down everything you need to know—from choosing the right framework (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium) to structuring fast, reliable suites and avoiding common pitfalls. These best practices will help you catch hidden bugs and ship with confidence.
Industry Research
The Copilot Delusion
"The real horror isn’t that AI will take our jobs. It’s that it will entice people who never wanted the job to begin with. People who don't care for quality. It'll remove the already tiny barrier to entry that at-least required people to try and comprehend control flow."
Updated: The State of Frontend 2024
The Software House released an updated version of its State of Frontend report. The frontend universe in the post-pandemic world seems to be doing alright. The industry seems to have shaken off the glitter of the gilded era and entered a phase of practicality and simplicity.
Developer Venture News
Hex Announces Its $70M Series C
Hex was founded in 2020 by a team that had worked together at Palantir, with a mission to build tools that help organizations make better use of data. Hex is taking an integrated approach and bringing users of all technicality levels and use cases together in one place.
Chalk Raises $50M Series A
As AI adoption accelerates, compute is shifting from training to inference to improve predictions, transform customer experiences, and reduce costs. Existing solutions solve training data pipelines but these incumbents don’t provide a solution for applications that require fresh data, with complex computation, at inference time.