DevToolsDigest: Issue #147

The Week in Developer Tools

Introducing Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stale Code

Piranha is a tool that scans source code to delete code related to stale, or obsolete, feature flags, leading to a cleaner, safer, more performant, and more maintainable code base. It offers great utility for organizations that use feature flags in their app deployments, and so Uber has open sourced it. 

How to Make Taxonomy Pages With Gatsby and Sanity.io

In this tutorial, Knut Melvær covers how to make taxonomy pages with Gatsby with structured content from Sanity.io. You will learn how to use Gatsby’s Node creation APIs to add fields to your content types in Gatsby’s GraphQL API. 

Snyk and Docker Partner to Secure Containerized Applications

For the first time, Docker, the favorite container development tool for millions of developers, will provide native vulnerability detection and fixes, powered by Snyk. Together, Snyk and Docker will help developers securely build and use containers and open source. 

Industry Research

Mux: Let's Just Design Our Own Corporate Blog

At Mux, they spend a significant amount of effort writing blog posts. It’s one of the main ways they communicate their ideas and share new features. They had been dissatisfied with the blog for a while and so they finally decided "Let's just design and build our own."

Orbit: Use This Segmentation Grid to Plan Your Community Outreach

When your community is small, it's easy to make decisions intuitively, but without data and a framework, it's hard for intuition to keep up as your community grows from dozens to thousands. As you grow, a little data goes a long way. This is where the Orbit Model comes in.

Increasing Developer Velocity in the Cloud Operating Model

This joint whitepaper, co-authored with GitHub, discusses how HashiCorp tools and the GitHub platform work together to enable organizations to adopt a strong CI/CD workflow and increase developer velocity.

From The Heavybit Library

Developer Cos are Still Hiring Marketers & Community Leads

While every industry is certainly going to be affected by any economic downturn, the reason enterprise software and developer companies have been somewhat insulated, is that they’re intended to make developers more productive. At a time when most companies are cutting or reassessing headcount, software can alleviate some of the burden on remaining team members.