DevToolsDigest: Issue #82

The Week in Developer Tools

OverOps Automated Timers and Performance Monitoring in Splunk

OverOps has added an automated timer capability into their platform which identifies every entry point into your code and then monitors these locations for slowdowns, allowing you to set a target threshold (in milliseconds).

New Features from Rainforest: Testing Workflow and Bug Flagging

Having an efficient test writing and triage process is essential to ensuring that your team gets the most out of Rainforest. With that in mind, Rainforest has announced several new features designed to help you write and edit tests more effectively, and better measure the impact of your QA.

Launched: Redis Integration for LaunchDarkly .NET SDK

LaunchDarkly has added native Redis feature store support to the .NET SDK, providing a persistent store of feature flag configurations. There are two ways to use the Redis feature store. 

Particle Announces Three New IoT Products and Particle Mesh Shipping at Spectra

Particle recently announced three all-new IoT products, along with shipping information for Particle Mesh, at Spectra, their first conference for IoT builders.

WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare is extending Cloudflare Workers to support WebAssembly. All Workers customers can no augment their applications with WASM at no additional cost. 

Introducing dav1d: A New AV1 Decoder

AV1 is a new video codec by the Alliance for Open Media, composed of most of the important Web companies (Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Mozilla...). The reference decoder for AV1 is great, but it's a research codebase, so it has a lot to improve.

Sourcegraph is Now Open Source

Sourcegraph development is now open source (Apache License). Sourcegraph was opened up to bring code search and intelligence to more developers and developer ecosystems.

Industry Research

How the Automation Fallback Method Can Help Your Test Automation Strategy

Automated tests are a great tool for QA teams and can help speed up testing significantly. The automation fallback method leverages crowdsourced testing to support automated test suites, helping teams to reduce the time and resources required for continuous test coverage.

How Much Does It Cost to Run A Mass Emailing Platform Built Using AWS Lambda?

Last year, Simform built an emailing platform for internal use. But after running into issues with cost, performance, and scalability, they turned to AWS Lambda to solve their problems. 

Eli Bendersky: Go Hits the Concurrency Nail Right On the Head

More than thirteen years have passed since Herb Sutter declared that free lunch is over and concurrency is upon us, and yet it's hard to claim that most mainstream languages have made a strong shift towards concurrent modes of programming. 

Venture Announcements

Aion Partners with Blockdaemon

You can now be a full participant in the Aion network in just 90 seconds. A simple click to deploy and you can run your own Aion node and become part of the infrastructure — and the first two months are free.

DEV.to Takes on New Investors

DEV.to has taken on some new investors in order to help keep the lights on and grow their inclusive community of software developers. The new funds will allow them to prioritize sustainable growth and value-enhancing features.

Cloudera and Hortonworks Announce All-Stock Merger 

The companies commercialize the Hadoop open-source big data software, which companies can use to store, process and analyze lots of different types of data. The combined equity value of the two companies is $5.2 billion.

Google's Advertising and Search Chief Departs to Join VC Firm Greylock

One of Google’s most important executives managing its core advertising businesses, including search ads, is leaving the Googleplex for a new career in venture capital.

David Ulevitch is Now A General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

The founder of OpenDNS announced that he has joined the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as its newest general partner. He is the fourth GP to be announced by the firm since it brought aboard former federal prosecutor Katie Haun.

JFrog Lands $165M Investment as Valuation Jumps Over $1 Billion

The round was led by Insight Venture Partners, and as part of the deal Insight’s co-founder and managing director, Jeff Horing will be joining the JFrog board. 

From The Heavybit Archive

Announcing: Heavybit's Contributor Program

At the core of Heavybit’s content programs is an endless drive to teach technical founders and their teams how to take developer products to market. Do you have valuable insights and experiences in the developer tool space that you’d like to share with our community? We want to hear from you. Fill out this short form to get started and we’ll be in touch as soon as possible.

Demand Gen Fireside: Designing the Right Marketing Team

In this Heavybit Fireside Chat, Netlify Head of Marketing Erin Symons and Kamal Thakarsey, VP of Growth & Demand Generation at Algolia, share the stage to give their tips on a successful early-stage marketing strategy and team. Topics include when to hire your first marketing person, how to deliver content and messaging around user personas, and which tools can help you scale up. 

Optimize Your Funnel By Getting Inside Your Buyer’s Head

David Skok is a serial entrepreneur who founded a total of four companies, and did one turn-around. In 2001, he joined Matrix Partners, who had backed his last two startups, as a VC investor. Successful exits as a VC include: HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan and Enservio.