DevToolsDigest: Issue #318
This week's digest includes news and resources from GitHub, Workbrew, Kubiya, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Announcing GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
Applications are open for the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, a program designed to financially and programmatically improve security and sustainability of open source projects. And apart from pure financial support, the three-week program will provide maintainers with security education, mentorship, tooling, certification, and more.
Selling the Vision, Skipping the Build: The GenAI Trap
There’s a dangerous assumption that we can simply market our way to blind trust in AI. Spoiler alert: that doesn’t work. If you’re not building and owning the full stack, you’re setting yourself up for a very public and very painful failure. Here are just a few of the critical architectural layers that often get overlooked.
Industry Research
The 2024 State of Platform Engineering? Fledgling at Best
It’s a hard road ahead for platform engineers, as few organizations have achieved true platform engineering — though how could they when they aren’t measuring its results? But if platform engineers continue to earn at least a salary grade higher than DevOps engineers, they will likely remain up to the challenge.
A Decade of DORA: Unlocking the Future of Software Development with AI
To celebrate the release of the 10th edition of the DORA report, this webinar unpacks the transformative impact of AI and why platform engineering is rapidly growing in importance. Explore the rapid adoption and widespread implications of AI in software development, how AI can boost productivity and enhance developer experience, how to build trust in AI systems and address potential challenges, and the importance of a proactive AI strategy for future success.
Developer Venture News
Workbrew Makes Open Source Package Manager Homebrew Enterprise-Friendly
A trio of former GitHub executives and engineers have founded a new startup that brings the benefits of one of the most popular open source package managers to the enterprise. Workbrew has emergeed from stealth with the mission of mitigating the risks of “shadow IT” practices, giving company admins and security teams centralized control and visibility into Homebrew deployments across the organization.