DevToolsDigest: Issue #170
This week's digest includes news and resources from Orbit, Last Week in AWS, Replicated, Contentful, Kong, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Migrating Orbit's Community from Slack to Discord: Tips & Lessons Learned
As Orbit's community grew, they began feeling the limitations of Slack as a community platform, and generally felt the need for more flexibility. That’s why they made the switch to Discord.
Researcher Hacks Over 35 Tech Firms in Novel Supply Chain Attack
A researcher managed to breach over 35 major companies' internal systems, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Yelp, Tesla, and Uber, in a novel software supply chain attack. The attack comprised uploading malware to open source repositories which then got distributed downstream automatically into the company's internal applications.
Industry Research
Last Week in AWS: A Chaos Engineering & Jeli Sandwich with Nora Jones
Join Corey and Nora as they talk about just what the heck it is that Jeli does, how incidents can help organization learn more about themselves, and why Nora thinks the word ‘post-mortem’ should be removed from the incident response lexicon.
Replicated: Rise of Kubernetes Elevates Software Delivery On-Prem
At Replicated, they closely track happenings in the cloud native space given that they use cloud native technologies to deliver and manage software on-prem. That’s why some of the findings in the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey caught their eye.
Paolo Negri on How to Design a Tech Stack that will Win Against Unrelenting Change
As the co-founder and CTO of Contentful, Paolo Negri has watched the business grow from a handful of people to the company it is today. And it’s not a stretch to attribute some of Contentful’s success to Paolo’s keen eye — he’s been the one monitoring the tech trends that have shaped the company and the industry.
Developer Venture News
Kong Raises $100M Series D to Accelerate Cloud Connectivity
This raise triples their valuation to $1.4 billion and will allow them to scale their go-to-market operations even faster. This includes doubling down on engineering to further support their customers in building their connectivity fabric with their cloud-managed service connectivity platform Kong Konnect.
From The Heavybit Community
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Thu Feb 18: Community Lessons from GitHub, Google & GitLab with Jono Bacon
Join us Thu Feb 18 for a Speaker Series with Jono Bacon on how communities supercharge your business, brand, and teams. Jono will be bringing decades of experience to the stage; from his time as Director of Community at GitHub to his consultancy work with GitLab, Microsoft, Intel, Google, HackerOne, and Mattermost to name a few.