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Interesting tools
Each week we review 2-3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week. View the full archive.
Pull request automation.
What we like: Define rules and automations in code based on conditions for approvals, assignment, merges, rebasing, reviews, queueing and prioritization. Can examine attributes like task list status, PR dependencies, Dependabot, Snyk and other tool integrations. Engine is open source.
What we don't like: GitHub only. Specifying PR dependencies does not work across repos.
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Browser executable code samples.
What we like: Code samples can run locally in the browser (using WebAssembly). Can be embedded into a web page using an iFrame or web component. Enable editor to allow the user to modify and run the code. Sandboxed and runs in a terminal emulator.
What we don't like: Limited by language runtimes available in WebAssembly Package Manager - Python, JS, SQL, C, C++. Best for simple code that uses stdin / stdout.
High performance observability pipeline.
What we like: Lots of plugins for sources e.g. AWS S3, Apache, StatsD, stdin; transforms e.g. aggregate, filter, log to metric; sinks e.g. Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Elasticsearch. Makes it easy to create a consistent pipeline even as sources and sinks change - no lockin. Can run as a single agent, sidecar or as an aggregator cluster for more throughput. Open source.
What we don't like: Transforms performed using the custom Vector Remap Language, which is another syntax to learn (but does compile to Rust = safety + performance).
New betas & early release programs
We also include some of the more interesting beta and early access releases. Here's the ones we featured this week. View the live list on Beta Console.
React design system for native & web.
TensorFlow library for graph data.
Database for stream processing.
Platform agnostic serverless apps.