DevToolsDigest: Issue #308
This week's digest includes news and resources from Tonic, OSI, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
The Challenges of Preparing Unstructured Data for Generative AI
You’ve been dreaming about creating an LLM Agent to make a specifically annoying business system more efficient, and you’re sure completing this project will help the company hit the big KPIs and OKRs leadership has set. Seems easy enough with all of the open-source frameworks, tools, and models available to help developers build AI tools. But there’s a catch.
DevOps in 2024: Automate First, AI Second
The news is full of articles about how AI copilots will boost productivity, but success in DevOps is about people and processes in addition to tools. Most users are typically so far behind that they don’t have the time to focus on improving their processes and educating their people to use these new tools properly.
Industry Research
The Slow Evaporation of the Free/Open Source Surplus
The derived FOSS surplus generates billions, if not trillions, of dollars of value for the economy and most of the costs – cost of creation, opportunity cost, and the cost of OSS competing with your more lucrative proprietary products – is absorbed by the makers. We’re in a period where the surpluses that the FOSS surplus is derived from are decreasing.
We Finally Have a Definition for Open-Source AI
Open-source AI is everywhere right now. The problem is, no one agrees on what it actually is. Now we may finally have an answer. The Open Source Initiative (OSI), the self-appointed arbiters of what it means to be open source, has released a new definition, which it hopes will help lawmakers develop regulations to protect consumers from AI risks.
Developer Venture News
Data Infrastructure Startup Cribl Raises $319M at a $3.5B Valuation
Cribl’s software helps to analyze, collect, process and route IT and security data to various systems, databases and data stores. It’s benefited from the massive expansion in corporate data over the past few years, which has led companies to search for “data ops” and orchestration solutions; an estimated 80% of worldwide data could reside in enterprises by 2025.