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| Here's a look at today's Dev briefing. - Graphite's research revealed the correlation between the number of files changed and the time taken for these pull requests to merge.
- Spotify did not pay any Play Store fees, according to The Verge.
- Canopy launched its platform and raised a $4M seed round
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| 1 | | A recent analysis by Graphite revealed that pull requests that changed the fewest files were the fastest. Graphite analyzed 1.5 million pull requests and examined the correlation between the number of files changed and the time taken for these pull requests to merge. More: - According to Graphite, even a marginal increase in the number of files changed led to the time-to-merge more than doubling, indicating higher risks and a greater likelihood of failing CI processes.
- The analysis also discovered a counterintuitive trend: as pull requests grew beyond a moderate level of complexity, the time spent reviewing each file decreased.
- Graphite attributed this trend to a shift in the reviewer's strategy from a meticulous line-by-line assessment to a risk-oriented evaluation of larger PRs.
- In order to create high-quality code and maintain an efficient review process, Graphite recommends limiting pull requests to three or fewer file changes.
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| 2 | | The Verge reported that Spotify did not pay any Play Store fees because of a secret deal between Spotify and Google. Both companies also committed $50M each to a success fund. More: - Don Harrison, head of global partnerships at Google, revealed during a testimony in the Epic v. Google trial Spotify paid 0% commission when users bought subscriptions through Spotify's own system.
- Further, when users chose Google to process their payment, Spotify paid 4%, compared to the 15% other app developers pay.
- Google requested the court to keep the secret deal private as it could damage negotiations with other app developers looking for a better deal.
- Harrison pointed out that Spotify's popularity justified the "bespoke" deal.
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| 3 | | Composability platform Canopy announced the launch of its platform and a $4M seed round. Kindred Ventures and Village Global participated in the funding round. More: - Canopy's platform simplifies and accelerates the integration, serving, and observation of critical data for business growth by eliminating complexity, custom code, and time-consuming processes.
- Canopy claims to enable developers to connect any data source, transform, and activate it in minutes.
- According to CEO and co-founder Ryan Bartley, IT teams spend 85% of their time on data integrations, leading to overworked developers, lack of innovation, and lost revenue. Canopy aims to break this cycle by removing custom code.
- Proceeds from the funding round will be used to expand operations and development efforts.
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| 4 | | Graph database company Neo4j entered into a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with AWS. Along with the announcement, Neo4j released a new integration with Amazon Bedrock that is accessible through an API. More: - The collaboration aims to enhance genAI outcomes through knowledge graphs and native vector search and reduce AI hallucinations to improve the accuracy, transparency, and explainability of results for enterprises.
- The integration with Amazon Bedrock offers benefits such as personalized experiences and the ability to generate vector embedding from unstructured data, convert unstructured data to structured data, and load it into a knowledge graph.
- Additionally, Neo4j announced the general availability of Neo4j Aura Professional, its fully managed graph database offering in AWS Marketplace.
- Chief product officer at Neo4j Sudhir Hasbe said, "The partnership will empower enterprises to leverage genAI to better innovate, provide the best outcome for their clients, and unlock the power of connecting data at unprecedented speed."
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| 5 | | New Tools and Updates: - The Vite team released Vite 5.0, which focuses on cleaning up the API by removing deprecated features and streamlines features. Vite 5.0 does not support Node.js 14,16,17, 19 and introduces server.warmup, a new feature to improve startup time.
- Highlights in Git 2.43, according to GitHub, include two new features in git repack: support for multiple cruft packs and spitting contents of repositories by an object filter.
- Nodesource introduced N|Solid Copilot, an AI-based assistant that improves Node.js application observability and security. The new tool offers real-time analysis and insights, anomaly detection and remediation, security vulnerability identification and resolution, code optimization suggestions, interactive querying, and knowledge sharing.
- Shipixen, an app for creating customized boilerplates with customized branding, theme, and selected features and deploying on Vercel, launched recently on ProductHunt.
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 | Analyst | | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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