2021: Heavybit & DevTool Year in Review

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  Mina BenothmanGrowth Marketing Manager
  Heavybit

Happy New Year and welcome back! Before we forge ahead with 2022 programming and content, we want to take some time to reflect on all the exciting things that happened for the devtools industry in 2021, as well as thank the community, advisors, and leaders, that made it happen.

January

• LaunchDarkly launches Unintended Consequences, a show about when tech gets bigger, stronger, faster, worse
• Cockroach Labs and Databricks announces $160M Series E and  $1B Series G, respectively, with billion dollar valuations
• ProfitWell’s CEO Patrick Campbell shares Retention Lessons from 20k SaaS Companies

February

• An oral history of #hugops: How tech’s first responders built a culture of empathy
• DigitalOcean files for IPO among a sea Of SPACs
• Community expert and author Jono Bacon shares Community Lessons from his time at GitHub, Google, & GitLab

March

• Contentful shares how The COVID Tracking Project scaled to handle 200M API calls per day
• Datadog VP of Product Design Steve Boak discusses his product discovery strategies
• Orbit offers a tactical guide to kickstarting your community

April

• Heavybit welcomes Crunchy Data, a company that enables organizations to deploy and manage PostgreSQL throughout their enterprise
• Avo launches The Right Track community and podcast for people who are working to build better data cultures
• Zapier, Typeform, Webflow, and PartnerPage discuss how to run solid processes around acquiring, activating, and retaining great partners

May

• Heavybit hosts DevGuild: Software-Defined Movements featuring Slack, HashiCorp, DataStax, and more
• Biden Executive Order mandates Zero Trust and strong encryption
• airCFO’s Director of Financial Advisory shares (almost) everything you need to know about Cap Table Management

June

• Heavybit welcomes Aserto, a cloud-native authorization service providing enterprise-ready permissions and RBAC for SaaS applications
• Jeli CEO Nora Jones discusses Chaos Engineering moving beyond ‘breaking stuff’ to highlighting business value
• Jamming into the mainstream: Jamstack Community Survey 2021

July

• OpenView releases 2021 Product Benchmarks
• LaunchDarkly co-founder/ CTO and Twilio VP Platform discuss scaling engineering management
• JetBrains shares The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

August

• GitLab’s Head of Global Technical Account Managers and Sanity co-founder/CEO discuss building customer success for scale
• Bessemer reveals six years of insights and trends on the top 100 private cloud companies
• Global venture funding hits all-time high in first half of 2021 with $288B invested

September

• GitLab files its S-1, touting 87% revenue growth in 2020
• Heavybit welcomes PartnerPage, a directory that enables B2B software vendors to increase revenue and discoverability through service and technology partners
• Intercom CRO and Replicated CRO discuss enterprise focused leadership roles

October

• Heavybit welcomes Memgraph, a company that makes real-time streaming graph computation accessible to every application developer
• Vertex Ventures, Okta, Hasura, and VMware discuss designing modern go-to-market organizations
• Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet

November

• HashiCorp files for IPO, said to seek $10 billion valuation
• GGV’s Glenn Solomon discusses what GitLab and Confluent show us about the future of software
• Jeli launches Getting There, a show about publicly-facing incidents, resilience, and human factors in computer systems

December

• Heavybit hosts DevGuild: Developer-First Go-To-Market featuring Vercel, Postman, Figma, and more
• Log4j Log4Shell 0-Day vulnerability: all you need to know
• Heavybit Managing Director Tom Drummond discusses how Covid and secondary markets are remaking the modern career path

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