DevToolsDigest: Issue #309
This week's digest includes news and resources from Stanza, CFE.dev, BentoML, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
What is Founder Mode?
A new essay by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has Silicon Valley leaders debating the extent to which executives should delegate work to their employees--or get down in the muck themselves. Online, it has sparked debate about the proper balance a business leader should strike between delegation versus hands-on involvement.
Stanza Outage Simulator
Stanza's Interactive Outage Simulator, a training and modeling tool for SREs is now in beta. The tool simulates the impact of various outage scenarios on a system, allowing you to adjust parameters and observe the results. It can be used to understand the dynamics of how time-of-day affects outages or to test what happens if you have an outage at the time you have a high-risk change scheduled.
Industry Research
The Dark Side of Open Source
Open source code makes up 90% of most codebases. How do you know if you can trust your open source dependencies? Software supply chain attacks have exploded over the past 12 months and they’re only accelerating in 2024 and beyond. This talk by Feross Aboukhadijeh dives into examples of recent supply chain attacks and what concrete steps you can take to protect your team from this emerging threat.
Operationalizing Data Security
In the digital age, data has become the lifeblood of organizations across all sectors. As the volume and complexity of data continue to grow exponentially, so too does the need for robust, operationalized data security measures. This article explores how businesses can move beyond theoretical security frameworks to implement practical, day-to-day practices that safeguard their most valuable asset: data.
Developer Venture News
Productivity Platform Startup Cortex Raises $60M to Strengthen Platform Capabilities
Founded in 2019, Cortex offers an internal developer platform that is designed to help companies catalog, score and assign actions to improve service quality and velocity, with the goal of allowing developers to prioritize work that drives a business forward. Cortex provides a single source of truth that allows teams to quickly access information about software ownership, operational status and resource allocation, eliminating time wasted searching for critical data.