DevToolsDigest: Feb 3rd, 2022
2022's first digest includes news and resources from Forbes, CNCF, Pendo, MariaDB, and more.

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The Week in Developer Tools
A company’s big ambitions for digital transformation aren’t always matched by an equally big budget. In these cases, tech leaders must take the lead role in establishing essential objectives, determining costs and deciding what to do first. 
Industry Research
The CNCF ecosystem continues to grow across vendor and end user memberships, making CNCF one of the most successful open source foundations ever. In 2021, they welcomed over 200 new members to CNCF, a 23% increase from 2020.
2021 was a year of big changes in the Jamstack. A year ago, we were struggling a bit with how to define Jamstack in a world that included the ability to use SSR in a Jamstack application. Jamstack became more popular but it also arguably got more complicated. We probably came no closer to clarity on what the Jamstack is in 2021.
Developer Venture News
Pendo, which allows companies to onboard new customers or get employees to adopt new software, as well as revealing analytics on that uptake, has acquired Mind the Product, a platform that dovetails nicely with Pendo’s mission.
MariaDB, one of the fastest growing and most popular open source database software companies in the world, announced its intention to become a publicly listed company on the NYSE. 
Heavybit News
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