DevToolsDigest: Issue #163

The Week in Developer Tools

Monitor and Optimize Your CI/CD Pipeline with Insights from CircleCI

CircleCI users asked for data that helps them become more efficient at CI/CD and their wish has been answered. The new Insights dashboard offers engineering teams access to actionable data for optimizing pipelines and getting even more out of CircleCI.

Bring Observability Data Directly into GitHub with Lightstep’s Pre-Deploy Check

Designed specifically to help developers regain control over the performance and reliability of their code, the Lightstep Pre-Deploy Check completes a risk assessment and delivers an understanding of entire system health within their service Pull Request, so developers can avoid deploys that are going to run into problems — even before code is merged.

Industry Research

Iron.io: What is PaaS (Platform as a Service)?

One of the most prominent technology trends during the last decade is the rise of the “everything-as-a-service” business model. PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) belongs to this category. Demand for PaaS services is predicted to grow significantly in the coming years, as an increasing number of businesses migrate their IT operations to the cloud.

Swimm: Git Reset Explained

We use git all the time and it helps us get the work done. But sometimes, and way more often than we might want, things go wrong. Perhaps we have committed to the wrong branch. Perhaps we lost some code that we wrote. Perhaps we committed something that we didn’t mean to.

Patrick McKenzie: What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

Patrick Mckenzie joined Striped four years ago, and has previously written about his experience working there. He writes about adjusting to working as an employee, experiencing hypergrowth, some of the challenges in balancing career and other commitments, and the coronavirus pandemic.

Developer Venture News

Dialpad Raises $100M at a $1.2B Valuation as Businesses Embrace 'Work from Anywhere’

Dialpad touts itself as a “unified communications platform” incorporating voice, video, and messaging. Its core products include UberConference, the web conference tool; Dialpad Talk, a cross-platform business phone system; and an in-bound contact center platform that connects companies with their customers.

MessageBird, the ‘Omnichannel Platform-as-a-Service,’ Raises $200M Series C at $3B Valuation

Originally seen as a competitor to Twilio, MessageBird has since repositioned itself as an “Omnichannel Platform-as-a-Service” (OPaaS). The idea is to easily enable enterprises and medium and smaller-sized companies to communicate with customers on any channel of their choosing.

From The Heavybit Library

Kiersten Gaffney: A Startup Guide to Product Launches

Kiersten Gaffney has spent the last 20+ years generating revenue for B2B early-stage startups and public companies as VP of Marketing. In this post, Kiersten outlines an easy no fluff guide to launching your product to ensure it receives the attention it deserves, even with limited team resources.

Design for Founders w/ Audrey Crane of DesignMap

In a recent group session, DesignMap partner Audrey Crane outlined what founders can do to incorporate design into their company, from understanding the role of design in building great products, to hiring the right designer or design agency, to incorporating design into every step of the building process.