DevToolsDigest: Issue #101

The Week in Developer Tools

New: Open Distro for Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a distributed, document-oriented search and analytics engine. It supports structured and unstructured queries, does not require a schema to be defined ahead of time, and can be used as a search engine or for web-scale log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and clickstream analytics. 

Elastic: On "Open" Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company

Shay Banon, Co-Founder and CEO of Elastic, reiterates their belief in open source and responds to AWS' Open Distro for Elasticsearch in this blog post. 

Redux: Scaling LaunchDarkly from 4 to 200B Feature Flags Daily

LaunchDarkly has scaled all of its services through a process of gradual evolution, with an occasional bit of punctuated equilibrium. Learn more about the tech stack behind LaunchDarkly and the real application and data infrastructure, utilities, devops, and business tools LaunchDarkly is using.

Updates from YC

From Sam Altman transitioning to Chairman of YC, to Startup School, to possibly moving from Mountain View to San Francisco, read about all of the updates YC has to share. 

OpenAI LP

OpenAI has created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows them to rapidly increase their investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize their mission. Their mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

DTrace on Windows

One of the more useful debugging advances that have arrived in the last decade is DTrace. Microsoft has created a Windows branch for “DTrace on Windows” under the OpenDTrace project on GitHub.

CSHTML5 Goes Open-Source

CSHTML5 has become popular among developers as the first production-ready solution to make web apps in C# and XAML. Making it open-source is part of the effort to make CSHTML5 a more open and flexible platform for developers.

Industry Research

Craig Kerstiens: Give Me Back My Monolith

We’ve seen some migrations from micro-services back to a monolith. When you go from one large application to multiple smaller services there are a number of new things you have to tackle, here is a rundown of all the things that were simple that you now have to re-visit.

Interview with GitLab CEO, Sid Sijbrandij: Keys to Developer Marketing

The CloudForecast team recently had a chance to do a “Pick Your Brain” session with the CEO of GitLab, Sid Sijbrandij. The range of topics included, keys to marketing to developers and growth strategies.

Applied Monotonicity: A Brief History of CRDTs in Riak

Around 2013, Riak was at the forefront of CRDT development with the engineers at Basho Technologies working hard to integrate efficient, usable CRDTs from the academic literature. At the time, designs for CRDT-based dictionaries did not exist, and the designs used for sets were extremely expensive or prohibitive for use in real applications.

Developer Venture News

LaunchDarkly, #1 Feature Management Platform, Gets $44M in Series C Funding

Today, LaunchDarkly has 700+ customers worldwide, and serves 200 billion feature flags daily. They've recently raised $44million in additional funding. 

PagerDuty Files for IPO

Matt Rosoff, editorial director for CNBC Tech, has found the SEC filings for PagerDuty's IPO. The filing says PagerDuty is looking to raise as much as $100 million in the IPO.

Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors

Cloudflare announced that it raised $150 million in its latest round of funding, led by Franklin Templeton. The company is also announcing two appointments to its board of directors, Stan Meresman, former CFO of Silicon Graphics, and Maria Eitel, founder and co-chair of the Nike Foundation.

NVIDIA to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9 Billion

The acquisition will unite two of the world’s leading companies in high performance computing. Together, NVIDIA’s computing platform and Mellanox’s interconnects power over 250 of the world’s Top 500 supercomputers and have as customers every major cloud service provider and computer maker.

NGINX to Join F5: Proud to Finish One Chapter and Excited to Start the Next

F5 and NGINX announced an agreement under which F5 will acquire NGINX for approximately $670 million. Hear from NGINX CEO Gus Robertson on why NGINX + F5 is a powerful combination that will ‘bridge the divide’ between NetOps and DevOps.

Andreessen Horowitz is Making the Move to San Francisco at Long Last

One of the last top-tier venture firms to resist coming to San Francisco has apparently decided that it’s time to make the move. The move is notable, even amid a years-long trend of Silicon Valley venture capital firms that have opened offices in San Francisco and, in doing so, shifted the industry’s center of gravity 45 minutes north.

GV Leads $11M Round in Determined AI Deep Learning Developer Platform

The funding will be used to grow its market footprint and hire more engineers with knowledge of distributed system design and understanding of how to functionally build AI applications.

Accel Raises $2.5B For New Funds

Accel, one of the few VC firms founded before the first dot-com bubble, filed paperwork with the SEC early Friday morning indicating it’s raised over $2.5 billion for a suite of new investment funds.

From The Heavybit Library

Product Marketing Best Practices with G Suite, Pusher and Measure

Taking a product or feature to market requires more than just buzz. Great product marketing requires deep consideration of community feedback, customer discovery, product onboarding, positioning, content creation, demand, sales enablement, and adoption.

The Secure Developer Ep. #25: Golden Images with Simon Bennett of Bitnami

In episode 25 of The Secure Developer, Guy meets with Simon Bennett, VP Product at Bitnami, to discuss golden images, image layering, and how Bitnami helps accelerate application delivery across multiple clouds.

o11ycast Ep. #9: High Performance DevOps with Jez Humble

In episode 9 of o11ycast, Charity and Rachel sit down with Jez Humble, Co-Founder and CTO of DevOps Research and Assessments (acquired by Google since this session was recorded), to discussDevOps security and how a team's culture relates to their success.

Announcing DevGuild: Product Marketing Speakers

We're excited to announce that some of the people and companies featured in this week's Digest will be joining us on stage Thurs May 2nd. You can hear more from:

• GitLab's Co-Founder and CEO

• Bitnami's Co-Founder and COO

• Cloudflare's Head of Products

• and more

Speakers haven't been announced to the public yet so grab your early bird tickets while you can.