DevToolsDigest: Issue #168
This digest includes news and resources from Replicated, Stripe, GitHub, Fortune, Orbit, Slack, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Replicated Donates SchemaHero to the CNCF
Replicated's SchemaHero has been accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. While SchemaHero has always been an open source project, Replicated is now transferring ownership to the CNCF and is committing to an open governance model so that it’s not directly tied to their vision.
Stripe Treasury
Stripe Treasury is a banking-as-a-service API that lets you embed financial services in your marketplace or platform. With a single integration, enable your customers to hold funds, pay bills, earn interest, and manage cash flow.
Budibase: 20 Free DevTools We Loved in 2020
In this post, Budibase co-founder, Joe, shares the tools that have helped him and his team with building a platform that builds apps super-quickly and easily.
Industry Research
GitHub: The 2020 State of the Octoverse
2020 has been a year of extraordinary change. Yet with 60M+ new repositories created this past year, one thing has remained true — developers came together from all corners of the world to innovate, find connection, and solve problems.
Fortune: Future 50
Three years ago, Fortune teamed up with management consulting firm BCG to create the Future 50, using a proprietary system that analyzes dozens of factors to identify companies with the best long-term growth potential. The 50 companies on last year’s list produced a cumulative shareholder return of 71% since publication vs. 21% for the S&P 500 over the same span.
Developer Venture News
Orbit: Powering Community-led Growth with $4M in Seed Funding
Orbit, a startup that is building tools to help organizations build communities around their proprietary and open-source products, announced that it has raised a $4 million seed funding round. The company is already working with companies like Postman, CircleCI, Kubernetes and Apollo GraphQL.
Salesforce Buys Slack in a $27.7B Megadeal
Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced it's wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $27.7 billion megadeal. The new deal puts Salesforce more on par — and in competition — with Microsoft, whose Teams product has been directly challenging Slack in the market.
From The Heavybit Community
Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Shipyard
We’re excited to announce our newest member company, Shipyard – a company that helps teams dynamically create and manage ephemeral environments on Kubernetes. Co-founders Benjie and Peter bring a combined 26+ years of experience in DevOps and are looking for engineers to join the team.
Next Tue Dec 8: Our Last Speaker Series of 2020
During one of the roughest years in modern US history, Sumo Logic IPOed in September to great success. But the road to public offering was a long journey. Join Heavybit GP and Librato cofounder Joe Ruscio alongside Sumo Logic cofounder and CTO Christian Beedgen for a fireside chat on the failures, successes, and key trends that made Sumo Logic a leader in enterprise cloud transformation.