DevToolsDigest: Issue #289
This week's digest includes news and resources from Cognition, PuppyGraph, Harness, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Introducing Devin, The First AI Software Engineer
Meet Devin, the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark. With Devin, engineers can focus on more interesting problems and engineering teams can strive for more ambitious goals. Devin has even successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and completed real jobs on Upwork.
Introducing PuppyGraph: The First and Only Graph Query Engine
PuppyGraph is the first and only graph analytics engine that transforms your existing relational data stores into a unified graph model. With PuppyGraph, you can go from deploy to query in under 10 minutes, scale with petabytes of data, and execute 10-hop queries in just 2 seconds.
Industry Research
Five Ways to Build a $100 Million Developer-First Business
If you’re the founder of a VC-backed software business, you should have a plan to reach $100 Million ARR at some point in your company’s journey. But not all founders do. An adaptation of Christoph Janz's model, focused on developer-first companies, where companies don’t address one type of customer or the other, but all of them at different stages of their growth.
From dbt to SQLMesh
The migration from dbt to SQLMesh at Harness was more than just a shift in tooling but a paradigmatic transition towards a more streamlined, efficient, and transparent approach to data engineering. This journey unveiled the hidden complexities and inefficiencies embedded in previous workflows and offered a path to both overcoming these challenges and refining their approach to data transformation.
Developer Venture News
PostgreSQL and Databricks Founders Join Forces for DBOS to Create a New Type of Operating System
DBOS (database-oriented operating system) announced that it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding as well as the launch of its first product, DBOS Cloud, which provides a new type of cloud-native operating system for cloud application deployment. DBOS was developed to address the challenges of managing the massive state of modern operating systems.