2024: DevTool Industry Year in Review

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  Mina BenothmanGrowth Marketing Manager
  Heavybit

New year, new...hype cycle? The last 12 months have been marked by coding assistants becoming more relevant, record-breaking funding rounds, and lots of back-and-forth about platform engineering and the definition of "open source AI."

In this article, we look back at some of the biggest headlines and most popular links from our weekly DevToolsDigest by month. We hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane and look forward to building together in 2025.

January

• 2024 is the year GenAI code hits adolescence
• StackShare's top 100+ developer tools 2023
• LLMs and programming in the first days of 2024

February

• Open source and cheap data are changing observability
• A whirlwind tour of everything that's new in DevOps
• AI-enabled tools are changing what it means to be a developer

March

• Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer
• Thoughts on the future of software development
• Introducing the next generation of Claude

April

• An opinionated guide to today’s technology landscape
• OpenTofu's response to HashiCorp's cease & desist letter
• HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation

May

• Satya Nadella’s Microsoft memo on putting security first
• The state of data engineering 2024
• Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu

June

• Mistral AI lands huge $640M round
• The "End of Software" of "Evolution of Software" debate
• The open (source) question in AI

July

• Mark Zuckerberg: "open source AI is the path forward"
• Tailscale: The new internet
• Google, Wiz, and the courage to turn down $23 billion

August

• AI apocalypse: 80% of projects crash and burn
• GitHub CEO says the AI industry needs competition to thrive
• We finally have a definition for open-source AI

September

• What is "founder mode"?
• The Strawberry has landed!
• An update on OpenAI's safety & security practices

October

• AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M
• New definition of open source AI is “flawed”
• Ghostty 1.0 is coming

November

• Heroku open sources the Twelve-Factor App definition
• GitHub announces Secure Open Source Fund
• The 2024 state of platform engineering? Fledgling at best

December

• Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond
• Reflections on the Linux Foundation's work in open source for 2024
• Databricks hits $62 billion valuation in record round

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