DevToolsDigest: Issue #100

The Week in Developer Tools

Introducing the AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency

AWS DCX Competency Partners support all phases of the digital customer acquisition and retention lifecycle. This includes content management and marketing automation to engage prospects and customers with the right experience; effective and secure commerce solutions to create seamless buying experiences, and data analytics to support your decisions and retain customers.

Introducing GPipe, an Open Source Library for Efficiently Training Large-scale Neural Network Models

GPipe is a distributed machine learning library that uses synchronous stochastic gradient descent and pipeline parallelism for training, applicable to any DNN that consists of multiple sequential layers. Importantly, GPipe allows researchers to easily deploy more accelerators to train larger models and to scale the performance without tuning hyperparameters.

Introducing Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry

A Docker registry’s primary purpose is to store and distribute Docker images. This may seem like a relatively trivial task, but with a large-scale compute cluster like Uber’s, it can easily turn into a scaling bottleneck. Developed by Uber, Kraken is an open source peer-to-peer Docker registry capable of distributing terabytes of data in seconds.

ReadMe: En Route to Better Partner APIs

Say you have an organization, with multiple projects, and multiple clients. You need to be able to make some parts of your APIs visible to some groups of users, and not for others, all the while, supporting your authentication protocol of choice (SAML/OAuth).

Industry Research

Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency is Easy

The CALM conjecture (and later theorem) was first introduced to the world in a 2010 keynote talk at PODS. Behind its simple formulation there’s a deep lesson to be learned with the power to create ripples through our industry akin to the influence of the CAP theorem.

Achieving 100k Connections Per Second with Elixir

Both HTTP 1.x and HTTP/2 rely on lower level connection-oriented protocols, namely TCP/IP and TLS. These protocols provide reliable delivery and correct order when data is chunked into multiple packets. TLS also includes encryption and authentication.

Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in 10 Minutes

Fundamentally, a microservice is just a computer program which runs on a server or a virtual computing instance and responds to network requests. How is this different from a typical Rails/Django/Node.js application? It is not different at all.

The Four Agreements of Incident Response

Have you ever been on one of those phone calls with several other human beings where you’re all almost screaming at each other while trying to troubleshoot an issue when something’s going wrong that needs to be fixed right this instant? Did you really enjoy that experience and want to do it all the time?

Developer Venture News

Pantheon Lands $40M In Rare Round For WebOps Industry

Pantheon, which helps manage open-source content sites WordPress and Drupal, just raised $40 million in a Series D led by Sageview Capital. The company, which runs more than 280,000 websites, works to boost functions like website performance and security while also rolling out marketing campaigns and ads. Its customers include companies like Yale, Coach, United Nations, Quicken Loans, and IBM.

From The Heavybit Library

EnterpriseReady Ep. #5: The Evolution of Enterprise with Edith Harbaugh of LaunchDarkly

In episode 5 of EnterpriseReady, Grant meets with Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly. They talk about Edith's experiences building advanced enterprise features, and how enterprise sales have changed over the years.