DevToolsDigest: Issue #189
This week's digest includes news and resources from Netlify, Flightcontrol, JetBrains, Zoom, Prodigy Education, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Shopify Announces Enhanced Storefront APIs: A First Look with Gridsome and Netlify
The Shopify team recently announced enhancements to their Storefront API that makes it possible for store owners to access and manage their entire store and inventory via APIs.
Introducing Flightcontrol
Flightcontrol is a fullstack deploy platform that runs on your own cloud, supports both containers & serverless functions, & is optimized for fullstack Next.js & Blitz.js apps. If this sounds like something you need, join the waitlist.
Using GraphQL to Ship Features Before They’re Done
GraphQL represents a fundamental shift in how developers can deliver features to end users faster than ever before. One useful technique that GraphQL enables is the zero-downtime migration,
Industry Research
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021
This report presents the combined results of the fifth annual Developer Ecosystem Survey conducted by JetBrains. 31,743 developers from 183 countries or regions helped them map the landscape of the developer community.
The End of Open Source?
The open-source ecosystem has long wrestled with problems of scale, complexity and free and open-source software’s (FOSS) increasingly critical importance to every kind of human undertaking.
Developer Venture News
Zoom is Buying Cloud Contact Center Provider Five9 for $14.7B
The deal marks Zoom’s first billion-dollar acquisition and comes as the company prepares for a post-pandemic world with employees returning to the office. Five9 has seen rapid growth of its own since early 2020, as demand surged for call center technology that would allow representatives to do their jobs from home.
From the Heavybit Library
Connecting Community to Commercial Success with Armory, HashiCorp, HackerOne
There’s no doubt that developer love can translate into long-term profits and market share. But the path between developer adoption and meaningful revenue is tough and it’s ever-evolving. In this session from DevGuild: Software-Defined Movements, our panelists discuss how the best bottom-up companies have reconciled and navigated developer community-building and exceedingly larger enterprise deals.