DevToolsDigest: Issue #202
This week's digest includes news and resources from CockroachDB, Honeycomb, NewRelic, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Incident Review and Postmortem Best Practices
Transparent incident reports and a good incident-handling strategy can inject much-needed realism into the development process. It’s hard to brush aside incidents that have caused specific damage, indeed these incidents are often powerful ways to make cases for work that would otherwise be delayed indefinitely.
CockroachDB Serverless: Build What You Dream, Never Worry About Your Database Again
A CockroachDB Serverless database in many ways looks like a single Postgres instance, but it is really a resilient, multi-tenant distributed system built from the ground up to take full advantage of the resources available in the cloud. It gives you instant access to a horizontally scalable relational database that you can spin up in seconds.
Industry Research
Enterprises are Scrambling to Deploy Zero Trust Security
The unrelenting pace of breach attempts and cyberattacks continues to accelerate, making zero trust-based adoption increasingly urgent for enterprises, according to a recent survey of cybersecurity professionals.
What Stage of Open-Source Adoption has Your Company Reached?
Companies that incorporate the open-source principles of collaboration and transparency into their business model and company culture will realize benefits in efficiency, hiring and retention, and trust within the marketplace. Those that do not will increasingly be left behind.
Developer Venture News
Software Observability Platform Honeycomb Raises $50M
Honeycomb, used by developers at companies such as Stripe, Slack, Heroku, and LaunchDarkly, has raised a $50 million Series C. Honeycomb helps enterprises troubleshoot their cloud apps and systems, enabling them to respond quickly to incidents or performance issues, while also figuring out whether a problem lies in their code or their infrastructure.
NewRelic Acquires CodeStream to Provide Chat in Developer Environments, Inks Microsoft IDE Partnership
NewRelic, the observability platform, has acquired CodeStream, an application that works within integrated developer environments to let developers write related notes to each other alongside the code itself. The deal underscores a few trends in the world of DevOps.
From the Heavybit Library
Foundational Enterprise-Focused Leadership: Defining the CRO with Intercom and Replicated
Developer startup founders making a move up-market into the enterprise face an all-new set of business challenges that require them to bolster or reshape their leadership teams. In this Speaker Series fireside, Intercom CRO Leandra Fishman and Replicated CRO Dustin Dean offer an insider's look at what it takes to be a successful CRO.