DevToolsDigest: Issue #131

The Week in Developer Tools

Introducing Tanka, Grafana Lab's Way of Deploying to Kubernetes

Complex tools like Kubernetes require powerful solutions. YAML however is not one of them, because it is designed for representing data, not generating it. Tanka is very similar to ksonnet; however, it is not a fork, but a rewrite from scratch. This allowed them to focus on providing only the important parts: the main workflow (show, diff, apply) is still there, and environments are still first class citizens.

W3C Brings a New Language to the Web as WebAssembly Becomes a W3C Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced that the WebAssembly Core Specification is now an official web standard, launching a powerful new language for the Web. WebAssembly is a safe, portable, low-level format designed for efficient execution and compact representation of code on modern processors including in a web browser.

Cockroach Labs: GCP Comes Out Swinging Against AWS and Azure in 2020 Cloud Report

Since 2017, Cockroach Labs has run thousands of benchmark tests across dozens of machine types with the goal of better understanding performance across cloud providers. If there’s one thing they’ve learned in their experiments, it’s this: benchmarking the clouds is a continuous process.

Introducing Datastax Luna

DataStax Luna is subscription-based support for open source Apache Cassandra. DataStax Luna subscribers get the benefits of open source software, with peace of mind from direct access to the engineers who have authored a majority of Cassandra code and support some of the largest Cassandra deployments.

Industry Research

Building The DataDog Platform For Processing Timeseries Data At Massive Scale

DataDog is one of the most successful companies in the space of metrics and monitoring for servers and cloud infrastructure. Vadim Semenov works on their data engineering team and joins the podcast in this episode to discuss the challenges that he works through, the systems that DataDog has built to power their business, and how their teams are organized to allow for rapid growth and massive scale.

Orbit: Laying the Groundwork for a Successful Developer Relations Hire

Jobs in developer advocacy, evangelism, and community are more in-demand than ever, attracting and retaining a developer advocate is less about stats like funding or company size, and more about organizational readiness. So how do you know when your company is ready to hire your first DevRel?

Sharing SQLite Databases Across Containers is Surprisingly Brilliant

In this post, Rick Branson explains how Segment got the latency of its streaming pipeline, which often handles over 500,000 messages per second, to work 20 times faster.

Developer Venture News

Sisense Nabs $100M at a $1B+ Valuation for Accessible Big Data Business Analytics

Sisense, an enterprise startup that has built a business analytics business out of the premise of making big data as accessible as possible to users — whether it be through graphics on mobile or desktop apps, or spoken through Alexa — announced a big round of funding today and a large jump in valuation to underscore its traction.

Ripple Raises $200 Million to Promote XRP Cryptocurrency

Ripple controls an enormous reserve of XRP, which is the world's third most valuable cryptocurrency, and emerged in 2011 as an early competitor to Bitcoin. In recent years, the company has bet its business on persuading financial institutions to use XRP as a "bridge currency" on cross-border transfers.

From The Heavybit Library

Security From The Start: Startup Security Basics

Security has become an essential business consideration for organizations of all sizes and stages. GGV Capital's Oren Yunger shares the the baseline security requirements expected from startups, including an introduction to risk classification, and examples of the investments and tradeoffs founders make in designing for security.

Passing Enterprise Security Reviews

Lisa Hawke, VP of Security and Compliance for Everlaw, demystifies the enterprise security reviews and vendor risk assessment processes. She covers topics including identifying internal champions, navigating enterprise security orgs, when and how to work on security policies and compliance (SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, etc.), and the secondary benefits that certifications present to your startup.