DevToolsDigest: Issue #314
This week's digest includes news and resources from Scaling DevTools, OpenSauced, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
"I Interviewed 100 DevTools Founders and This is What I Learned"
In the last two years, Jack Bridger has recorded 100 episodes of Scaling DevTools; a developer tools startup podcast. These 100 episodes have featured the founders of startups like Supabase, PostHog and WorkOS. And he's also spoken to many more DevTools founders outside the podcast. This is what he's learned.
Introducing Open Source Ready
In this inaugural episode of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride embark on a technical and philosophical exploration of the current state of open-source AI. John shares his hands-on experience with building large-scale data pipelines and integrating AI to create meaningful insights for developers.
Industry Research
Valkey Momentum: Seven Months In
This week Google announced Memorystore support for Valkey and AWS announced support for Valkey in ElastiCache and MemoryDB. Aiven launched Aiven for Valkey in June. Percona recently released survey results indicating strong market interest in Valkey.
From Systems of Intelligence to Systems of Agents: The New Moats in Enterprise Software
The term "agents" has been thrown around for quite a bit, but if we take a step back to truly understand what the new technologies fundamentally change and what is the "why now" to new moats to exist - it's the difference between collecting garbage data to now not only collecting and unlocking better data, but in particular, collecting interactions and actions of humans - what we like to call learning from action spaces.
Developer Venture News
The Bear Case for OpenAI at $157 Billion
We all watched WeWork, GoPuff, Bird, and others raise shocking amounts of money with high burn rates and prove the skeptics right. But others, like Uber, figured out how to turn their big business into a profitable one. Is OpenAI a good investment at a jaw-dropping $157 billion valuation? Is it an even bigger and better Uber? Or is it more like a WeWork?