DevToolsDigest: Issue #69

The Week in Developer Tools

Spiral: Self-Tuning Services via Real-Time Machine Learning

To the billions of people using Facebook, their services may look like a single, unified mobile app or website. From inside the company, the view is different. Facebook is built using thousands of services, with functions ranging from balancing internet traffic to transcoding images to providing reliable storage. To more effectively optimize these many services, with the flexibility to adapt to a constantly changing interconnected web of internal services, Facebook developed Spiral.

Container Vulnerability Management For Developers

Snyk released a container vulnerability management solution which empowers developers to fully own the security of their Dockerized application. Read about the new tool in this blog post.

7 Essential DevOps Tools to Maintain Serverless Operations

Serverless architectures are attracting attention for their ability to support faster development times alongside their potentially lower operational costs, due to a pay-only-for-the-compute-you-use model. That means that companies implementing serverless do not need as great a visibility into the infrastructure that spins up the compute power.

How JavaScript Works: The Internals of Shadow DOM + How to Build Self-Contained Components

This is post #17 of the series dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In this article, they focus on the Shadow DOM, a tool for building component-based apps.

Testing in Production Without Compromising Availability

In May LaunchDarkly took their Test in Production Meetup to Paris, and their friends at Algolia were kind enough to host them. Algolia’s own Senior Engineer, Xavier Grand, spoke about how his team at Algolia tests when they have 4500 customers, in 16 regions, searching 14 billion queries per month.

Debugging Serverless Apps: From Monitoring Invocations to Observing a System of Functions

Observability into your serverless application is crucial: for development, for operations, for all stages of the application pipeline. Read more from IOpipe on their blog.

Supercharge Your Splunk Analytics with OverOps

How can OverOps help you gain more from Splunk? Check out this short post and video walkthrough to learn how to combine the powers of these two tools.

4 Common Pitfalls When Scaling Agile QA

What do successful fast-growing teams have in common as they scale their QA process, and how do they avoid creating a bloated, time-consuming and expensive strategy? Learn from Derek Choy, CIO of Rainforest, in this post.

Sauce Labs Launches Technology Alliance Partner Program

Sauce Labs announced the formation of its Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program, a new initiative designed to streamline the way enterprises transform their software development processes and integrate continuous testing into their delivery pipelines.

Industry Research

Convergence to Kubernetes, by Paul Ingles

When asked what he thought was interesting about the growing use of Kubernetes, uSwitch's CTO replied that teams don’t realize how much they haven’t had to do.

Intel and the Danger of Integration

Last week Brian Krzanich resigned as the CEO of Intel after violating the company’s non-fraternization policy. The details of Krzanich’s departure, though, ultimately don’t matter: his tenure was an abject failure, the extent of which is only now coming into view.

Venture Announcements

$4 Million More Means More Features and Jobs

Cypress raised $4 million co-led by Las Olas Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. The investment will be used to accelerate product development, sales growth and market expansion.

Puppet Raises $42 Million, Its First Investment in Four Years

This new investment indicates Puppet has decided to continue funding itself privately rather than pursuing an IPO as it long planned. Read more about the round in this post.

Introducing a16z Crypto

a16z announced the launch of a16z crypto, a $300M venture fund that will invest in crypto companies and protocols. This fund is designed to include the best features of traditional venture capital, updated to the modern crypto world.

From The Heavybit Archive

Cole Krumbholz on Developer Product Design

Cole Krumbholz is Developer Platform Lead at Squarespace where he works on scaling the company’s developer products. In 2014, his company Brace.io, a back-end service product for front-end developers, was acquired by Squarespace. Krumbholz is currently Product Faculty Chair at Heavybit.