DevToolsDigest: Issue #358
This week's digest includes news and resources from Tiger Data, Evil Martians, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
More Than DNS: The 14 Hour AWS Outage
This major bust-up was given a simple explanation: brain drain; race condition; it’s always DNS; the cloud is unreliable, go on-prem. You’re not going to understand software reliability if you summarize an outage of this scale in an internet comment.
Everything We Learned from Building a Production Agent
Agents are the new developers. They read, write, and build on our behalf. But the systems they rely on were designed for humans. Agents need infrastructure that can remember context, reason over data, and act in real time.
Spec-Driven Development: 10 Things You Need to Know
The industry is moving from telling AI agents exactly how to code something to describing what we want them to build. At the heart of this transformation are Specifications.
Industry Research
Seeing Like A Software Company
Tiny software companies are often much better than larger ones at delivering software: it doesn’t matter that the large company is throwing ten times the number of engineers at the problem if the small company is twenty times more efficient.
Evolving MultiAgentic Systems
As enterprises scale from proof-of-concepts to real-world workloads, complexity, latency, and cost get out of control. By focusing on fewer, stronger agents backed by robust infrastructure, orgs can unlock scalability without sacrificing speed or control.
Cutting Scope Ruthlessly & Shipping Perfect Products Fast
Resend founder Zeno Rocha reveals how he built an $18M Series A email API company by obsessing over brand, giving away React Email for free, and rejecting the "ship crap fast" mentality.