DevToolsDigest: Issue #118

The Week in Developer Tools

Stripe: Fast and Flexible Observability with Canonical Log Lines

Although logs are powerful and flexible, their sheer volume often makes it impractical to extract insight from them in an expedient way. Relevant information is spread across many individual log lines, and even with the most powerful log processing systems, searching for the right details can be slow and requires intricate query syntax.

AWS: Announcing PartiQL, One Query Language for All Your Data

PartiQL is a SQL-compatible query language that makes it easy to efficiently query data, regardless of where or in what format it is stored. As long as your query engine supports PartiQL, you can process structured data from relational databases, semi-structured and nested data in open data formats, and even schema-less data in NoSQL or document databases that allow different attributes for different rows.

VMware Cloud Foundation Comes to Google Cloud

Users will have full, native access to the full VMware stack and Google Cloud will provide the first line of support, working closely with CloudSimple to help ensure customers receive a streamlined product support experience and that their business-critical applications are supported with the SLAs that enterprise customers need.

Snyk: How to Increase Serverless Observability, Monitoring and Security

Functions are often short-lived, deployed in large numbers, and invoked more and more frequently as you scale so it's easy to lose track of the flow of events or to pinpoint the root cause for any given error. Adopting serverless can further complicate things. 

Industry Research

The Practical Dev: 4 Ways You Can “Level Up” As A Developer

The lines between different “levels” of developer are blurry. Ask any senior developer, development manager or technical director what the difference between beginner, junior, mid-level and senior, and chances are, you’ll receive vastly differing opinions.

OpenView Venture Partners: The State of Product Led Growth

How people use and buy software has been changing, creating a new go-to-market playbook: product led growth. The most successful product led companies (think Zoom, Slack, Expensify) flip the script on everything from how they design their user experience to how they approach pricing and packaging.

Developer Venture News

Graph Database Reinvented: Dgraph Secures $11.5M to Pursue Its Unique and Opinionated Path

Imagine a graph database that's not aimed at the growing graph database market, selling to Fortune 500 without sales, and claiming to be the fastest without benchmarks. Dgraph is unique in some interesting ways.

CircleCI Raises a $56M Series D: What's Next for Customers

With over 30M independent jobs run every month and growing, CircleCI has a rich and unparalleled understanding of languages, architectural patterns, code testing patterns, delivery success rates, team practices, and more. They're actively investing in making those insights available to their developer customers, to help improve the health of value delivery for all.

Dark Announces $3.5M in Seed Financing

Dark is in the process of coming out of stealth. Their team has developed a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure. You write in the Dark language, using the Dark editor, and your program is hosted on Dark’s infrastructure, which lets developers code without thinking about infrastructure, and have near-instant deployment.

From The Heavybit Library

Messaging as The One Source of Truth

Often misunderstood as an exercise you do only for press releases, messaging can be an effective source of truth and a competitive differentiator across your orgs marketing, product, sales and hiring.

Sachin Agarwal: How to Optimize Pricing and Packaging with Feature Flags

One of the most important, but often most overlooked, parts of product-market balance is finding the appropriate pricing and packaging structures for your customers and your business. There are a number of pithy sayings, but as Paul Graham says: You’ve found market price when buyers complain but still pay.

SJ Morris: Late-Stage, Scalable Growth Considerations for an Innovative and Inclusive Developer Community

This series has taken us through a number of recommendations to focus on depending on the growth stage of your developer startup, but the thread that remains constant throughout these stages is to think outside your own world to make your startup the best it can be. 

JAMstack Radio Ep. #43: Working in the Open with Jason Lengstorf of Gatsby

In episode 43 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Jason Lengstorf of Gatsby. They discuss the new spin Gatsbys putting on theme templates, and the inherent balancing act of catering to the open source community while operating a profitable business.