DevToolsDigest: Issue #342
This week's digest includes news and resources from Root, Redpoint, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Generating Use Case Specific MCP Servers
Off-the-shelf MCP servers are generally large and cater to many use cases, at the cost of more money spent on input tokens and reduced cognitive performance by the LLM. Thankfully, alternatives exist. This talk shows how to generate a purpose-built MCP server with only the APIs and tools the LLM and user will need.
Building Guardrails for AI and Other Unpredictable Systems
Microservices were supposed to make software delivery faster and easier — so why are releases slower, bugs more frequent, and teams more frustrated than ever? Explore the hidden costs of modern software architecture, the myth of shift-left, and why API design-first thinking may be the way out of integration purgatory.
Why Open Source Maintainers Thrive in the LLM Era
"I’ve been in open source for 20 years and in tech professionally since 2007. Across the years and these various ecosystems, I’ve seen many different ways of building software. Modern LLMs, however, are perhaps the first technological shift in my entire career that truly feels likely to change everything."
Industry Research
Open Source & Container Security are Broken
Container security has become a growing source of risk and complexity, but doesn’t have to be. We’ll examine the obstacles organizations face when trying to track, triage, and remediate vulnerabilities, why current approaches are falling short, and what can be done to move beyond the cycle of endless patching and firefighting.
The 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.