DevToolsDigest: Issue #158

The Week in Developer Tools

The Serverless Framework Knative Component

The Serverless Framework is improving its support for Knative with the first official Knative Serverless Framework Component. This Component, developed in collaboration with Red Hat, can deploy and manage containerized applications on serverless Knative infrastructure easily, cheaply and scale massively, all via the Serverless Framework.

Gitpod Open Sources a ‘Holistic IDE’

Gitpod this week has released an open source version of its integrated developer environment (IDE), which it is calling “a new class of cloud-based IDE that fundamentally changes how software developers build applications.”

Crunchy Data: Building a Recommendation Engine Inside Postgres with Python and Pandas

Data can tell you a lot about what users are doing and can help you gain all sorts of insights. One such aspect is in making recommendations based on past history or others that have made similar choices. This is a quick walkthrough of getting a recommendation engine setup directly inside Postgres.

Industry Research

Tailscale: How NATs (Network Address Translators) Traversal Works

If you implement everything in this post, you’ll have state of the art NAT traversal software that can get direct connections established in the widest possible array of situations. It's quite complicated but it’s one of those problems that’s fun to explore.

Sara Vieira: The Opinionated Guide to React

This book is Sara's personal map of the tips, power-ups and not-so-obvious solutions to common questions and problems that she's come across during 4 years of React development. There are 190 pages of React Recipes and every recipe comes with companion code examples that walk you through common React cross-roads.

Developer Venture News

Fastly Nabs Signal Sciences for $775M

Fastly said that the acquisition of Signal Sciences’ business will boost its ability to provide better security for applications and APIs — the connective fabric between different services that knit different technologies together behind the scenes.

Snowflake’s S-1 Filing Reveals Fast-Growing Revenue and Slowing Losses

Data cloud warehouse company Snowflake has publicly filed its S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after confidentially filing to go public earlier this summer. Snowflake, which was last privately valued at $12.4 billion, plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SNOW.

Sumo Logic Files S-1, The Intelligence Economy Goes Public

Cloud software management company Sumo Logic has completed its S-1 filing with the aim of raising up to US$100 million in a Nasdaq public offering. Sumo Logic is known for its cloud management technology which acts as platform for ‘continuous intelligence’ over cloud-based business operations in what the company likes to call the ‘intelligence economy’.

From The Heavybit Library

Kiersten Gaffney: Empowering Your Team for Growth

Kiersten Gaffney has spent the last 20+ years, generating revenue for B2B early-stage startups and public companies. In this post, Kiersten outlines how to build a culture of knowledge sharing, so your team can do their best work and confidently scale the business.