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Welcome to this week's DevTools newsletter, bringing you the latest news, updates, and insights from the world of developer tools. Read on to discover how these advancements can help you streamline your workflows and enhance your development process.

?? Funding Wins

FlexAI Scores $30 Million Seed Funding to Boost AI Compute Accessibility

FlexAI has been launched with a $30 million seed funding round led by Alpha Intelligence Capital, Elaia Partners, and Heartcore Capital. The company aims to address key challenges in AI development by providing universal AI compute via an on-demand cloud service, making it easier and more efficient for developers to build and train AI applications across diverse hardware setups.

"We believe in AI's transformative power to solve some of humanity’s biggest problems, but it will require a 1000x magnitude more compute to be able to realize this vision,” said Brijesh Tripathi , CEO and co-founder of FlexAI. “The availability of AI compute today is limited to a select few. Our vision is to unlock access to compute for the many.”

Read more about their mission here.

Octomind Secures $4.8M for AI-Powered Software Testing Solutions

Octomind has raised $4.8 million in a round led by Cherry Ventures to advance their AI-driven software testing platform. Founders ?? Marc Mengler and Daniel Roedler aim to improve software quality with AI tools that automate end-to-end testing.

"My co-founder Daniel and I started Octomind out of sheer frustration with software quality. Thanks to no-code tools and AI, everyone can generate web apps. But that’s not the whole story. They also need an expert who guarantees that the generated code doesn’t contain bugs. We’ve built Octomind to be that testing expert. With our own money... Today, the journey of our bootstrapped startup just got very, very exciting." said Mengler. The investment will help Octomind expand its AI capabilities and user community.

Discover more on their development here.

Talsec Wins €1M Investment for Mobile Security Tools

Talsec , a Czech startup, has secured €1 million from Dig Ventures and DEPO Ventures for its mobile app security toolkit. CEO Sergiy Yakymchuk ???? emphasizes the toolkit's role in protecting apps from cyber threats, "We decided to enter the market with a product that offers protection for mobile-first businesses...We want Talsec, with its freemium toolkit, to become standard for developers needing to ensure the security of their applications and their users.” This funding will support Talsec's expansion into the global market and further development of their security solutions.

Learn more about their security innovations here.

??Lots of Lovely Launches

Revideo Unleashes Open-Source Video Creation Toolkit

Revideo (YC S23) is unleashed; an innovative open-source framework for building web-based video applications. This toolkit enhances video and audio editing and enables dynamic input rendering, addressing the lack of features in existing tools. "We built Revideo by extending the animation library Motion Canvas and adding features that are essential for automatically creating videos. These features include support for audio, substantially faster video rendering, and an API for programmatically rendering videos with dynamic inputs," explains Co-founder, Justus Mattern .

Check out Revideo on GitHub.

PgEdge Advances PostgreSQL with DDL Replication and Snowflake Sequences

pgEdge has launched significant updates for PostgreSQL, including automatic DDL replication and snowflake sequences to support unique sequence identifiers across distributed systems. "By offering these cutting-edge capabilities built on open, standard-based Postgres, we demonstrate our ongoing commitment to making advanced distributed Postgres capabilities available to the Postgres community," remarks Phillip Merrick , co-founder and CEO.

Discover more about these pioneering features at PgEdge.

Weights & Biases Launches W&B Weave for Generative AI Deployment

Weights & Biases , the leading AI developer platform supporting end-to-end MLOps and LLMOps workflows, announces the release of W&B Weave, designed to streamline the development process for generative AI applications. Shawn Lewis , CTO, says, "We built Weave for developers to support the scientific workflow of building AI applications. We made it lightweight and practical with minimal abstractions...We built the tools that helped bring LLMs into the world. Now we're building tools to make them work in production applications.”

Read more about how Weave is shaping the future of AI development here.

LaunchFlow Redefines Cloud Development with Python-Based Infrastructure Tool

LaunchFlow is changing the way cloud infrastructure is managed with a Python-based tool that simplifies the process for developers working across AWS and GCP. "We're excited to announce a new version of LaunchFlow focused on making it easier than ever to build and deploy applications to your own cloud account," says founder Caleb Van Dyke . This tool allows developers to define cloud infrastructure in Python, streamline environments from development to production, and maintain cloud provider agnostic coding with minimal code changes.

Discover more about LaunchFlow on their blog.

Last9's Alert Studio Tackles Alert Fatigue with Advanced Features

Last9 has launched Alert Studio, a specialized alerting tool aimed at tackling High Cardinality use cases in system monitoring. The tool is designed to mitigate alert fatigue and improve the Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) for system issues. It introduces features such as Change Intelligence and Anomalous Pattern Detection to reduce unnecessary alerts and enhance system reliability. "Over the coming months, I’m hoping this is a significant game-changer for folks festered with incessant alerts," says Aditya Godbole , Head of Product

Explore how Alert Studio can streamline your alert management at Last9.

Mabl Introduces Mobile App Testing to Enhance Software Quality

mabl , known for its unified test automation platform, has launched a mobile application testing feature designed to significantly enhance software quality. This new addition aims to boost test coverage and reliability, while reducing test creation time, supporting organizations in their rapid release cycles. Dan Belcher , co-founder of Mabl, states, "In this climate, organizations that don't put mobile quality front and center will fail to attract and maintain their user base. At mabl, we've seen firsthand that organizations that embrace AI-powered, automated testing solutions have a competitive advantage, by democratizing mobile app testing and accelerating time to market."

Learn more about Mabl's mobile app testing capabilities at Mabl.

??DevTools of the Week

DevTron: Say Goodbye to Tool Chaos and Hello to Efficiency

Devtron Inc. is a platform that brings order to the chaos of the ever-growing list of cloud-native and DevOps tools. By providing a unified dashboard, DevTron allows developers to manage their existing tools from a central location, eliminating the need for context switching. The platform leverages the expertise of engineers by empowering them to use the tools they already know and love, while simplifying complex workflows and reducing confusion.

The platform offers a step-by-step guide to installation and configuration, including standalone installation and integration with ArgoCD for GitOps workflows. With DevTron, engineers at all levels can contribute more easily, taking control of the complex cloud-native landscape.

To learn more about DevTron and how it can streamline your tool management, visit https://devtron.ai/.

Neurelo: Cloud API Platform for Your Databases

Neurelo is an early-stage startup that simplifies database programming by providing a cloud-based REST and GraphQL Data API platform. With Neurelo, developers can build production-ready applications using PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB in minutes, without the complexities associated with traditional database programming.

Earlier this year, Neurelo raised $5 million in seed funding to support their vision of creating customized APIs based on individual data models. Co-founders Chirag Shah , former MongoDB product team lead, and Guru Kamat , previously at Stripe, recognized the challenges developers face when connecting databases to applications. Neurelo's solution creates an abstraction layer between the database and the programming interface, generating purpose-built APIs tailored to each data model.

"We’re not building a database. We're building this abstraction layer that absolutely gives developers every single read and write you want from your software for your data, for your database," said Shah. By leveraging generative AI and custom large language models, Neurelo automatically generates database queries, further simplifying the development process.

To explore how Neurelo can revolutionize your database programming experience, visit https://www.neurelo.com/.

???More News

Gradle and GitHub Join Forces to Bolster Developer Security

Gradle Inc. has partnered with GitHub to enhance developer experience and security. The partnership introduces the Dependency Submission Action for Gradle, helping users detect and manage vulnerabilities in project dependencies. Piotr Jagielski, VP of Engineering at Gradle, Inc., expressed excitement about the collaboration, aiming to streamline workflows and protect supply chains while improving the developer experience. This partnership between two major players in the developer tool sector aims to provide a more secure and efficient environment for developers. Read more here

SmartBear Boosts API Development with Stoplight Integration

SmartBear has integrated Stoplight's API open source tools into its SwaggerHub platform to enhance API development. The integration of tools like Spectral, Elements, and Prism empowers teams to adhere to best practices, maintain consistency, and reduce errors. "SmartBear's mission is to empower customers with the solutions and capabilities they need to drive quality and efficiency across development teams," said Sean Butler, Vice President of Product Management at SmartBear. "Integrating Stoplight's advanced API design features into SwaggerHub highlights this commitment to enhance the API development lifecycle, particularly critical now with the onslaught of AI-related APIs." Read more here

GitButler Presents THE MERGE: Where Developer Tools and Communities Converge

THE MERGE is an upcoming developer experience conference organized by GitButler , a dev tool company founded by the co-founder of GitHub. The event, scheduled for June 13 & 14 in Berlin, brings together technical founders and executives from leading companies such as GitHub, Sentry, Heroku, and Tauri to discuss developer tools and the communities built around them.

To learn more and secure your spot, visit the event website here.

From AI-powered solutions to streamlined workflows and enhanced security, the tools and platforms featured in this newsletter aim to empower developers to build better software more efficiently - which we love here at Develocity!

We hope you found this edition informative and inspiring. If you have any news, updates, or insights you'd like to share with the community, please don't hesitate to reach out to Louise Ogilvy . Your contributions help us keep the developer community informed and connected.

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