Console DevTools

In this episode, we speak with Desigan Chinniah, previously at Mozilla, advisor to many web startups and now on the board of Tor . We discuss the evolution of web tech from websites to complex decentralized applications running on browser APIs, the competitiveness of the browser rendering engine versus the UX layer and how developers think about privacy. Does it live in browser settings, extension...

In this episode we speak to Rosie Sherry, Community Lead at Orbit , a community management software company. We discuss why community is not marketing, how devrel and community are different, who owns community and what that might mean with web3 & decentralization, and what essential tools you need for managing communities. About Rosie Sherry Rosie Sherry is Community Lead at Orbit, a community ma...

In this episode we speak to Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama , an open source framework for securing AI applications in the cloud. We discuss the principles behind encryption, homomorphic encryption, and programmable bootstrapping, how these technologies can ensure user data privacy, what is changing that is making them more relevant to today, and how developers should be thinking about building on new pro...

In this episode we speak to Ed Sim, Founder and General Partner of Boldstart , a venture investor specializing in DevTools and software. Ed has invested in developer-focused companies like Snyk, Slim.ai, and Jit Security. We discuss what engineers should think about when working on side projects, when and if they should seek out investors, how to pick the good ones, whether raising money is even n...

In this episode we speak to Brooklyn Zelenka, CTO at Fission , a decentralized app framework for the future of web apps at the edge. We discuss the relevance of blockchain to web3 and decentralized web apps, why developers should avoid managing backend servers, the challenges of doing authentication and identity with local clients, and why web browser APIs are the place to build, not the native op...

In this episode we speak to Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb , an observability tool for distributed systems. We discuss why observability is based around events and not metrics, how developers should think about achieving appropriately observable systems, why Honeycomb implemented their own distributed columnar data store, and how you can delete most of your alerts by implementing service level o...

In this episode we speak to Thomas Ptacek, currently a software engineer at Fly.io and previously a co-founder at security firms Latacora and Matasano Security. We discuss the state of software security in sectors like energy and healthcare,  how software developers should think about supply chain risk, and what they should do about securing their dependencies. We also explore how security threats...

In this episode we speak with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare , a global web platform built for security and performance. We discuss the philosophy behind the idea that the network is a computer, why developers should be able to ignore the low level details of where their code runs, and the challenges of deploying data centers on Mars. About John Graham-Cumming John Graham-Cumming is the CT...

Starting with Cloudflare CTO, John Graham-Cumming on 6 Jan 2022, in season 2 of the Console DevTools Podcast we'll be speaking to 11 interesting people currently working in devtools about a specific technical topic. Upcoming guests: Dev infrastructure, with John Graham-Cumming (Cloudflare) Security, with Thomas Ptacek (Fly.io) Observability, with Charity Majors (Honeycomb) Decentralization, with B...

Episode 10 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console ) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software ). Tools discussed: Cue - 0pen source data validation language) Leapp (manage cloud access credentials) Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev Other things mentioned: JSON Go Protocol buffers Typescript F# Project...

Episode 9 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console ) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software ). Tools discussed: Tyk - API gateway Deepsource - automated code reviews Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev Other things mentioned: Kong Apigee nginx Go Akita Software EP5 Console DevTools Podcast EP2 Console...

Episode 8 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console ) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software ). Tools discussed: Fission - decentralized app backend for storage and identity. AskGit - query git repos with SQL. Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev Other things mentioned: InterPlanetary File System WebAsse...

Episode 7 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console ) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software ). Tools discussed: Sourcegraph - code search engine. Hoppscotch - test UI for API requests. Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev Other things mentioned: Github . Dropbox . Monorepo . PageRank . Github Copilot ....

Episode 6 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console ) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software ). Tools discussed: Appsmith - Open source internal tool UI builder Retool - Internal tool UI builder Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev Other things mentioned: MongoDB Amazon S3 GraphQL Stripe React Why Aren't...

Episode 5 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console ) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software ). Tools discussed: Snyk Open Source - Dependency security monitoring. Security Scorecard - Security health metrics. Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev Other things mentioned: GNU C Library (glibc) Dependabot N...

Episode 4 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console ) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software ). Tools discussed: Liveblocks - real-time collaboration API. Livekit - Open source live video and audio API. Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev Other things mentioned: Figma . Mux . Next.js . NuxtJS . WebRTC ....

Episode 3 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console ) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software ). Tools discussed: Automerge - JSON-like data structure for concurrent writes. Polypane - Browser testing tool Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev Other things mentioned Local-First Software - academic paper Sy...

Episode 2 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console ) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software ). Tools discussed: GitHub Copilot - AI pair programming for VS Code. Tuple - Screen sharing optimized for developers. Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev Other things mentioned: Computer Aided Programming Group...

Episode 1 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console ) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software ). Tools discussed: Waypoint - Build, deploy, and release across platforms. Zellij - Terminal workspace manager (tabs + multiplexing). Find more interesting tools and beta releases for developers at https://console.dev Other things mentioned: HCL - Hashicorp...

As software has become more important, so the demand for developers has increased. Whether you call yourself an engineer, a programmer, developer, hacker or coder, more and more organizations are building skilled technology teams to change how they achieve their mission. Developers make big decisions, yet they face an onslaught of sales and marketing combined with an unrelenting velocity of releas...