DevToolsDigest: Issue #73

This week's digest includes news and resources from Serverless, Brandur Leach, CoreOS, Citus Data, Snyk, ReadMe, The Linux Foundation, and more.

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AUG 3, 2018

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The Week in Developer Tools

The New Serverless Platform Beta: Everything Teams Need To Operationalize Serverless Development

Serverless announced the Serverless Platform Beta—a single toolkit that provides everything teams need to operationalize serverless development. They plan to expand active development on the Serverless Platform with the $10M Series A funding they raised from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Trinity Ventures, also announced this week.

In Pursuit of Production Minimalism

While complexity is never a conscious design goal of any project, it arises inherently as new features are pursued or new components are introduced. KISS encourages designers to actively counteract this force by making simplicity an objective in itself, and thus produce products that are more maintainable, more reliable, and more flexible.

Celebrating Istio Service Mesh Project At 1.0 And What It Means For The Kubernetes Community

CoreOS announced that Istio has achieved the milestone of hitting 1.0. In 2016 work began on Istio to provide an answer to the growing need for a service mesh within cloud native environments.

Citus 7.5: The Right Way To Scale SaaS Apps

One of the primary challenges with scaling SaaS applications is the database. While you can easily scale your application by adding more servers, scaling your database is a way harder problem. This is particularly true if your application benefits from relational database features, such as transactions, table joins, and database constraints.

ServerlessConf 2018 San Francisco: Key Takeaways For The Future of Serverless

What were the major themes of ServerlessConf 2018 in SF? It was the conference of two things: (1) big@$$ companies talking about their large-scale, production serverless architectures; and (2) (from a drastically different perspective) non-engineers talking about how serverless technologies empowered them to begin developing their own apps, without a coding background.

How To Crash An Email Server With A Single Email

Five of the most popular email parsers for Node.js have recently been found to be susceptible to a trivial denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. The vulnerability can be exploited by packing a few million empty attachments in a email that will bypass typical email size limits (usually 20 MB or less).

Data Science Digest: Source Code Metrics That Matter

Data Scientists have spent decades researching ways to better understand what’s “good” code and what isn’t. While software quality is an interesting area to explore, is it worth the effort? After all, it’s common for developers to disagree on how to write high-quality code to achieve the same outcome.

ReadMe Now Supports OAS 3.0

Readme announced that one of their most requested features is now complete. The new API Explorer accepts the OpenAPI 3.0 Specification.

How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies

The West Coast is a growing target of foreign espionage. And it’s not ready to fight back.

Industry Research

Enterprise Guide to Winding Down an Open Source Project

When it comes to launching an open source project, free information abounds online, on topics ranging from picking the right license to building a community. But what about when an organization needs to shutter or move away from an unneeded project?

What is Cardinality in Monitoring?

When people talk about cardinality in monitoring, and how it’s hard to handle high-cardinality dimensions, they’re talking about how many distinct combinations of tags there are, and thus the number of series.

Venture Announcements

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Duo Security

Cisco announced its intent to acquire Duo Security, a privately-held company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich. Duo Security is a leading provider of unified access security and multi-factor authentication delivered through the cloud.

Browser Maker Opera Successfully Begins Trading On NASDAQ

Opera is now a public company. The Norway-based company priced its initial public offering at $12 a share — the company initially expected to price its share in the $10 to $12 price range. Trading opened at $14.34 per share, up 19.5 percent. The company raised over $115 million with this IPO.