DevToolsDigest: Issue #360
This week's digest includes news and resources from Tonic, Replicate, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
MCPs Are Not Like Other APIs
Over the last couple of decades, the common wisdom has become that Postel's Law (aka the robustness principle) is dated and wrong and that APIs should be rigid and rigorous. That's the wrong choice when you're designing for use by LLMs.
Fabricate Data Agent: Hyper-Realistic Synthetic Data
Meet Fabricate Data Agent, an AI agent that makes generating hyper-realistic synthetic data as simple as asking for it. With the Data Agent, you can literally chat your way to whatever dataset you need.
Skyway: Cloud Cost Management for the 9-Figure Club
Introducing Skyway: the first cost management platform built exclusively for those companies who are actually at-scale and spending $100m/yr+. Built by the team overseeing tens-of-billions in enterprise cloud spend.
Industry Research
How To Build an AI-First Org, One Engineer at a Time
Unless your business was born out of a university machine learning department or conceived in the last three years, you’re not likely an “AI-native organization.” But that doesn’t mean you can’t embrace AI-native development.
The State of Cloud-Native Computing in 2025
There are 15.6M developers adopting cloud-native tools, making cloud-native tech a cornerstone of modern software delivery. However, only 30% of backend developers surveyed say they use Kubernetes, a decrease from its peak of 36% in Q3 2023.
Send This to Your Friend Who Thinks Cloud is A Good Idea
"I’m sure many developers secretly know the cloud is not as good as they initially promised, and they hold that conflicting thought in their head day in and day out as they go about their job."
Developer Venture News
Replicate is Joining Cloudflare
Cloudflare is purchasing Replicate, a platform that makes deploying and running AI models easier. The acquisition will enable developers building on Cloudflare to access any AI model globally with just one line of code.
Milestone Raises $10M to Make AI Rhyme with ROI
GenAI has become a key part of coding workflows, but most companies struggle to track its use, let alone its ROI. Milestone hopes to help with a platform designed to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code quality.