DevToolsDigest: Issue #75

The Week in Developer Tools

Oracle: Introducing GraphPipe

GraphPipe provides a standard, high-performance protocol for transmitting tensor data over the network, along with simple implementations of clients and servers that make deploying and querying machine learning models from any framework a breeze.

Droogans: How To Write Unmaintainable Code

These are the tips you need to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes. You will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code.

Serverless Testing in Production

The still-maturing ecosystem of serverless means that there isn't a range of tools available for specific aspects of application deployment within this infrastructure style. But also, the nature of serverless as an events-driven architecture means that in many cases, it is difficult to usefully test for how things will occur in a production environment.

Industry Research

A Conversation with Cloud Native Thought Leaders

Redpoint recently hosted its second annual Cloud Native Summit in partnership with the CNCF and Amplify Partners. Thought Leaders from LaunchDarkly, Hashicorp, Envoy, and Serverless Inc came together for a panel on Cloud Native technology.

Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

Why does a restaurant company like Chick-fil-A want to deploy Kubernetes at the Edge? What are the goals? At Chick-fil-A, they believe the solutions to many of their capacity problems are technology solutions.

Are Programmers Ethically (and Legally) Responsible for Their Code?

Is the tech industry ethical? Does it have to be? And the consumer demand for features is more important than security. And millennials don’t even care about privacy anyway. These are all common myths about tech ethics.

TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: Purpose Built Differently for Time-Series Data

An in-depth look into how two leading time-series databases stack up in terms of data model, query language, reliability, performance, ecosystem, operational management, and company/community support.

Arcentry's (not so smooth) Journey Productising a Serverless App on AWS

Navigating the jungle of Lambda Functions, API Gateways, S3 Buckets, VPNs, VPCs, Cloudfront Templates, and all the other bits and bops required doesn't quite feel like what they had in mind when they envisioned the simple, self-orchestrating, serverless world of tomorrow.

The Post AWS's Billing Team Could Have Written but Didn't

The idea of having multiple AWS accounts in your organization broken out not just by team but also by cost center isn't the terrible idea that some people tend to assume it is.

Venture Announcements

Y Combinator is Launching a Startup Program in China

Y Combinator is expanding to China after it announced the hiring of former Microsoft and Baidu executive Qi Lu, who will develop a standalone startup program that runs on Chinese soil. 

Twistlock Snares $33 Million Series C Investment to Secure Cloud Native Environments

As the world shifts to a cloud native approach, the way you secure applications as they get deployed is changing too. Twistlock, a company built from the ground up to secure cloud native environments, announced a $33 million Series C round led by Iconiq Capital.

From The Heavybit Archive

Humans vs Machines: When To Hire And When To Automate

Is your sales team working on low-value activity? Kristen Habacht, the Head of Enterprise Sales at Atlassian for Trello, discusses how to go about automating them in this Heavybit Speakers Series presentation. 

Venture Confidential Ep. #18, Feat. Aligned’s Jodi Sherman Jahic

In episode 18 of Venture Confidential, Aligned Partners’ Jodi Sherman Jahic stops by the Heavybit studio to discuss what kind of companies and portfolios she invests in and what capital efficiency should mean for startups.