DevToolsDigest: Issue #80

This week's digest includes news and resources from Google Cloud, Particle, the Linux Foundation, AWS, LightStep, GitLab, and more.

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SEP 21, 2018

7 MIN

The Week in Developer Tools

Particle: Two-Step Authentication & Revamped Real-Time Event Logs

Particle now supports Two-Step Authentication, an industry standard security feature to help keep your account and fleet of devices, protected. The revamped Real-Time Event Logs are designed to improve the experience of examining live data from devices in the field — helping you find the information you need easily.

Google: Introducing New Cloud Source Repositories

Cloud Source Repositories is powered by the same underlying code search infrastructure that Google engineers perform their code searches on every day. It features an entirely new user interface and semantic code search capabilities.

AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency

The AWS Cloud Management Tools (CMT) Competency helps customers identify partner solutions that accelerate their AWS adoption by delivering operations and governance best practices.

Linux 4.19-rc4 Released, An Apology, and a Maintainership Note

Pain-points in kernel development have generally not been about the technical issues, but about the inflection points where development flow and behavior changed.

Stripe Terminal: The Programmable Point of Sale

Stripe Terminal extends your online presence into the physical world. Enable in-person payments for any business model with pre-certified card readers, JavaScript and mobile SDKs, and cloud-based hardware management.

Google: Introducing Cloud Inference API

Cloud Inference API is a simple, highly efficient and scalable system that makes it easier for businesses and developers to quickly gather insights from typed time series datasets.

Industry Research

The Real World, Enterprise Road to Continuous Delivery

Many large companies have jumped on the DevOps bandwagon, with a good measure of success. The road to continuous integration and continuous delivery, DevOps’ core processes, can be a long one. Here are how some organizations made the journey.

How to Align Your QA Strategy with the Business Goals Execs Care About

If you asked an executive team if they wanted to increase the quality and speed of their product or service, they’d likely say, “Yes.” However, only 29% of executive teams expect their QA and Software Testing strategy to contribute to business growth. So where does software testing lie in the majority’s thought process?

Netflix Observability with Kevin Lew

Netflix users stream terabytes of data from the cloud to their devices every day. During a high bandwidth, long-lived connection, a lot can go wrong. Networks can drop packets, machines can run out of memory, and the Netflix app on a user’s device can have a bug. All of these events can result in a bad user experience.

Modern Backend Developer in 2018

Web development today is completely different from what it was a few years ago; there are lots of different things that can easily baffle anyone entering into the web development.

Falling in Love with Rust

Rust’s reasoning for removing segmented stacks is a concise but thorough damnation; their rationale for removing M:N is clear-eyed, thoughtful and reflective — but also unequivocal in its resolve. Suddenly, Rust has become very interesting.

David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Software Languages

David Patterson—University of California professor, Google engineer, and RISC pioneer—says there’s no better time than now to be a computer architect. That’s because Moore’s Law really is over.

Multi-Cloud Is a Trap

A multi-cloud strategy looks great on paper, but it creates unneeded constraints and results in a wild-goose chase. For most, it ends up being a distraction, creating more problems than it solves and costing more money than it’s worth. But there are a few reasons why multi-cloud should be a priority for organizations of any scale.

LightStep Named a Cool Vendor in Performance Analysis; Analytics and Containers by Gartner

LightStep formally launched last year to address challenges faced by enterprises building and operating complex software at scale. The growing adoption of microservices has accelerated software development but brings greater operational complexity and a dramatic increase in the volume of diagnostic data, making performance management a challenge.

How to Become a Better Software Developer: A Handbook on Personal Performance

There’s a big difference between writing code and being a great programmer. Writing code is the output–and almost anyone can learn the basics of syntax and formatting. But what makes someone a skilled developer?

Venture Announcements

MariaDB Acquires Clustrix

MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, announced that it has acquired Clustrix, which itself is a MySQL drop-in replacement database, but with a focus on scalability.

GitLab Raises $100 Million from Iconiq, GV, and Khosla, at $1.1 Billion Valuation

Code collaboration and DevOps platform GitLab has raised $100 million in a series D round of funding led by Iconiq Capital, with participation from existing investors GV and Khosla Ventures.

Tidelift Pays Open Source Maintainers to Provide Enterprise-Grade Guarantees

While many open source projects have parent companies that offer enterprise-grade support and features, others do not. And contributors to those projects generally do so on their own time and without compensation. Tidelift aims to change that.