DevToolsDigest: Issue #103

The Week in Developer Tools

A Framework for Generating High-Impact Developer Engagement Projects

Creating a developer community project is both rewarding and difficult. Many developer advocates, evangelists, and marketers either don’t know where to begin, or have trouble building momentum across the teams at their company.

Andrew Healey: JavaScript One-Liners That Make Me Excited

One-liners are tricky to maintain (and sometimes even hard to understand) but that doesn't stop them from being cool as hell. There's a certain satisfaction that comes after writing a terse solution.

Shadow Like a Dutonian: Onboarding Engineers With On-Call Shadowing

On-call shadowing is an essential practice at PagerDuty. For a new engineer, a shadowing period serves as a kinder, smoother ramp-up to going on-call, with none of the stress or responsibility for diagnosing and fixing the issue.

Industry Research

Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think

We all know application issues cost money, but quantifying it – well, that’s a harder task. Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code.

How Daily.co, the First Browser-Based Video Calling Platform, Uses Mux

When first building Daily.co, the team knew they wanted to provide a cloud-enabled video conferencing service for users that have demanding video use cases, such as distributed product development, always-on video portals, and shared conference rooms in co-working spaces.

The Creation of the io.latency Block I/O Controller

Different applications have different I/O patterns, they have different latency requirements, and they are never consistent. Throttling can help ensure that users get their fair share of the available bandwidth but, since most I/O is in the writeback path, it's often too late to throttle without putting pressure elsewhere on the system.

Developer Venture News

Kong Raises $43M to Expand Its API Automation Platform

The SF-based startup is riding the wave of microservices as companies rethink the way they develop applications for cloud-based computing. Kong says adoption of its platform accelerated in 2018 to reach more than 75 million downloads of its open source API platform and deals with 110 enterprise customers.

Alibaba Acquires Teambition, a China-Based Trello and Asana Rival, in Its Enterprise Push

As with AWS, Alibaba’s enterprise business stems out of the cloud-based infrastructure Alibaba has built for its own e-commerce powerhouse, which it has productised as a service for third parties that it calls Alibaba Cloud, which (like AWS) offers a range of cloud-storage and serving tiers to users.

From The Heavybit Library

Efficient Lead Gen & Marketing Ops

Companies often struggle with operationalizing their marketing – from marketing ops metrics, to choosing the right marketing stack, to launching nurturing campaigns, to channel attribution. It’s hard to know what to measure. This panel will help you understand where to focus your energy and pour more fuel on the fire.

EnterpriseReady Ep. #6: Enterprise Innovation with Andrew Peterson of Signal Sciences

In episode 6 of EnterpriseReady, Grant is joined by Andrew Peterson, Co-Founder and CEO of Signal Sciences, to discuss how his experiences solving security problems at Etsy helped shape his company's top-down, go-to-market approach.

Early Bird Pricing for DevGuild: Product Marketing Ending Soon

If you haven't gotten your tickets for DevGuild: Product Marketing yet, now's your chance before Early Bird Pricing ends this Sunday.

Our lineup includes:

• Co-Founder and CEO, GitLab

• Co-Founder and CPO, Zapier

• Co-Founder and COO, Bitnami

• Founder FYI, Crazy Egg, Product Habits, KISSmetrics

• Co-Founder and CEO, Netlify

• Head of Products, Cloudflare

• Head of Product Marketing, Stripe

• and more...

For tickets and more info, visit here.