Tag: Developer Tools

At Bugout.dev, the Palo Alto-based startup I founded last year, we build a search engine for programmers. As such, we run many experiments involving features that enrich results from our search indices before we display those results to our users. Most of these features require us to deploy backing web services.

HackerEarth is a comprehensive developer assessment software that helps companies to accurately measure the skills of developers during the recruiting process. Kundan Kumar, SDET at HackerEarth walks through how their team leveraged AWS Lambda to scale critical selenium UI tests.

Stream has come a long way since they first started working with AWS, and now powers feeds and chat for more than 500 million end-users. In this blog post, Thierry Schellenbach, the Co-Founder and CEO of Stream covers some of the best practices and AWS services that allowed them to sustain this rapid growth.

Armory is commercializing the distribution of Spinnaker, an open source continuous delivery platform that large companies use to safely and quickly ship software. CEO DROdio visited the San Francisco AWS Loft to tell us more.

Developer workflow KintoHub enables developers to build cloud-native apps. Founder Joseph Cooper shares how trying to find the sweet spot between a gaming API development platform and GitHub eventually led to KintoHub’s creation. Cooper also talks through how customers use KintoHub, how many startups he has founded, and what his thoughts are on the Hong Kong startup scene.

Ben Hall, founder of developer edtech startup Katacoda, shares how the interactive learning platform offers software developers access to educational content that will further their understanding of cloud-related technology.

Paul-Henri Pillet, CEO of developer tool startup Gatling, shares how the Gatling tool fights performance bottlenecks, what challenges Gatling has faced throughout its journey, and how AWS helped has helped it scale.

Among the most common complaints and concerns about optimizing big data clusters and applications is the amount of time it takes to root-cause issues like application failures and slowdowns. Here’s a detailed look at how big data startup Unravel helps.

Last year, the Mapbox Platform team decided that in order to better serve developers at the company, we should combine all of our existing artifact-creation tools into a single-unified system. This system, which we named artifacts, provides an easy to use, extendable platform for creating any type of build artifact. Here’s how we did it.

Cory Watson, Technical Director at SignalFx, will take a tour of observability’s origins and discuss the practical benefits you can expect from investment, including a better-informed capacity planning process and debuggability. He’ll share the steps to take when building your infrastructure and how having an observable system can provide the real-time data you need to make better engineering decisions.