DevToolsDigest: Issue #106

The Week in Developer Tools

Sorbet: A Static Type Checker for Ruby

Stripe has built Sorbet, a static type checker that is 100% compatible with Ruby. They've already started adopting Sorbet at Stripe but are looking for early feedback before it becomes available Summer 2019. 

After Three Years of Silence, A New jQuery Prototype Pollution Vulnerability Emerges Once Again

On March 26th, 2019, almost three years after the last jQuery security vulnerability was disclosed, Snyk learned about a new security vulnerability affecting the same popular jQuery frontend library. 

UX Engineering

A UX Engineer is a Front-End Engineer who sits on a cross-functional design team and helps facilitate collaboration between design and engineering. Although a few companies, such as Google and Etsy, are starting to hire UXEs, the position differs vastly between companies.

Using Parquet on Athena to Save Money on AWS

If pricing is based on the amount of data scanned, you should always optimize your dataset to process the least amount of data using one of the following techniques: compressing, partitioning and using a columnar file format. 

Industry Research

Unified APIs – 3 Stories of Company Success

Whether it’s saving time and money, getting to market quicker, or helping their integrations scale at a faster pace, Kloudless' Unified APIs have helped so many codebases find success. In this post, they've collected a few of their favorite case studies.

Micro-Promotions and Mentorship: The Big Impact of Small Actions in an Engineering Culture

If you are a leader, it is your responsibility to work deliberately towards creating environments that make every individual feel welcome. Self-directed employee actions do not constitute a comprehensive solution for solving the problems of diversity and inclusion in tech.

AWS Summit Recap: What's New for Lambda, Cloudformation and More

AWS keeps evolving, and summits are a great way to stay up to date on the latest additions. If you're using or are planning to use AWS in any way, visit a summit near you when you get the chance.

Developer Venture News

Fastly Files for IPO

Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Founded in 2011, Fastly powers online destinations including Airbnb, GitHub, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times and Ticketmaster.

Microsoft Delves Deeper Into IoT with Express Logic Acquisition

Microsoft has acquired Express Logic, a San Diego company that has developed a real-time operating system (RTOS) aimed at controlling the growing number of IoT devices in the world. The company boasts some 6.2 billion devices running its systems.

From The Heavybit Library

Sales Training Lessons from Wizeline, Pusher & PagerDuty

The faster you can ramp up your sales team, the faster you can hit targets and scale the business. Heavybit’s Sales Faculty Chair Trenton Truitt, and Pusher’s VP of Sales, Brent Kasper, sat down for a chat on executing a technical sales program, setting sales efficiency benchmarks, and ramping to revenue.

JAMstack Radio Ep. #38: JAM Performance with J.C. Hiatt of DevLifts

In episode 38 of JAMstack Radio, Brian talks with J.C. Hiatt, Founder of DevLifts. They cover front end frameworks in the JAMstack, scaling up an ultra-lean business, and even developer fitness.

The Secure Developer Ep. #28: Developer Empathy with Jason Chan of Netflix

In episode 28 of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Jason Chan of Netflix to discuss simplifying the security process for software developers, as well as some of the open source projects Netflix has shared with the community.