DevToolsDigest: Issue #110

The Week in Developer Tools

Introducing pg_auto_failover: A High Availability and Automated Failover Postgres Extension

The pg_auto_failover solution for Postgres is meant to provide an easy to setup and reliable automated failover solution. This solution includes software driven decision making for when to implement failover in production.

Which HTTP Status Code to Use for Every CRUD App

The HTTP specification defines many status codes we can use when responding to our clients. This guide walks through the various CRUD operations and which status codes you should be using for clean API design.

MDX, Authors, and Richer JAMstack content

Thanks to the growth of the JAMstack, developers are building performant and secure websites as quickly as ever. Content creators are benefitting from this too, but at the same time are reaching the limitations of markdown as an authoring tool. The good news is there’s now a better way: a new format called MDX that empowers content creators to embed dynamic components inside of their markdown.

10 Serverless Security Best Practices

In this installment of their cheat sheet series, Snyk covers best practices for securing your serverless deployments. Make sure you download the cheat sheet and pin it up, so that your future decisions are secure decisions.

Industry Research

State & Local Technology Trends and Challenges

In the digital era, state and local government and education (SLED) agencies are increasingly leveraging new technological advances such as mobility, the cloud, and big data to better serve constituents while achieving cost efficiencies.

Lessons Learned From Sending Millions of Serverless Webhooks

In this post, a Principal Software Engineer at Dwolla shares how moving to a serverless architecture improved the timeliness, configurability, cost and reliability of their webhooks.

Developer Venture News

Pantheon Acquires StagingPilot

Pantheon has acquired StagingPilot, creating a clear pathway for them to offer automation for website updates through their WebOps platform. This acquisition includes not just StagingPilot’s outstanding technology, but also founder Nathan Tyler and his brother Phil, who have created the gold standard of automated CMS maintenance.

Slack Revenue Up 67% as It Prepares Stock Listing

Slack released its first quarter financial results showing steady growth and manageable losses as it prepares to go public on June 20. Slack lost $31.9 million, up 28% from the year prior, meanwhile, revenue grew by 67% to $134.8 million, according to the filing.

Foursquare Buys Placed from Snap Inc. on the Heels of $150M in New Funding

Foursquare just made its first acquisition. The location tech company has acquired Placed from Snap Inc. on the heels of a fresh $150 million investment led by The Raine Group. Placed founder and CEO David Shim will become president of Foursquare.

From The Heavybit Community

DevGuild: Product Marketing Videos Now Live

We’re happy to announce that all the talks from DevGuild: Product Marketing are now available online, check them out on the DevGuild site. Share your favorite talks on Twitter and tag them with #DevGuild.

The Secure Developer Ep. #31: Evangelizing Security with Tanya Janca of Microsoft

In episode 31 of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Tanya Janca, Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. Tanya shares insights, from her early days leading software teams for the Canadian government, to evangelizing software security at Microsoft.

Upcoming Event - June 6 & 7: DevRelCon SF

Two days of developer relations, developer experience and developer marketing, with practitioners from across the world. Heavybit General Partner, Dana Oshiro, is giving a talk June 7th on "The Defensibility and Value in Developer Community" so add yourself to the waitlist and use the code [heavybit] for $50 off tickets.