DevToolsDigest: Issue #348
This week's digest includes news and resources from Streamfold, PuppyGraph, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Rotel: Fast and Efficient OpenTelemetry Collection in Rust
Rotel is a new open-source alternative for collecting OpenTelemetry data and is engineered to be an efficient, high-performance solution for receiving, processing, and exporting OpenTelemetry data. Rotel runs as a standalone process and consumes telemetry from external processes or other collection agents.
Real-World Examples of AX in Practice
We are in a Gutenberg press moment for software development. Few realize the scope of change to our whole industry when not just millions, but billions can build custom software with the help of AI agents. AX as a discipline will become as foundational as UX to product design and development.
How AI Helped Me Build This Blog
"For the last year, I’d become convinced that self-hosting a blog is the way to go. Then I accidentally discovered that AI has made web programming a whole lot less painful. I estimate AI to have saved me 20+ hours in setting up this blog. Here’s more about this experience and my takeways."
Industry Research
Software Engineering Radio: Wesley Beary on API Design
Wesley Beary of Anchor speaks about designing APIs with a particular emphasis on user experience. Wesley discusses what it means to be an “API connoisseur”— paying attention to what makes the APIs we consume enjoyable or frustrating and then taking those lessons and using them when we design our own APIs.
The Future of Software Supply Chain Security
Today's container security landscape creates unnecessary friction. Pricing opacity forces lengthy enterprise negotiations. High minimum commitments create barriers for smaller teams. Container rebuilding approaches risk breaking functionality and require extensive engineering cycles.
How Wiz Crushed Lacework: A Data Infra Perspective
Google's acquisition of Wiz for $32 billion was a clear signal to the industry: the cloud security war has a winner. What’s more interesting is how they won. Wiz wasn’t the first mover. Lacework started five years earlier with a solid team, strong product vision, and top-tier VC backing. So what went wrong for Lacework?