The way you work, the environment you work in, and the tools you work with can all have a significant impact on how effective you are as a developer (and professional, generally!).
Improving and optimizing your approach to each of these areas continuously over time can lead to significant gains – after all, just getting 1% better every day for a year can make you 37x better at the end of it.
In this article, we outline 7 key DevEx tools that our team recommends, whether having used them in the past, currently using them at Multitudes, or looking to use them based on recommendations from trusted sources.
Put simply, DevEx relates to developers’ feelings towards, thoughts about, and the value they place on their work. It can include the systems, technology, processes and culture within their team or organization that impact their ability to be effective.
To help you improve how your development team thinks about and experiences their work, our Multitudes engineering team has put together a list of their favorite DevEx tools, covering everything from observability, to product metrics, to data orchestration tooling.
Sentry is an application monitoring tool that helps developers identify, track, and resolve performance issues and errors.
A full-stack application monitoring solution, Sentry provides code-level observability which makes it easy to diagnose issues and learn about your app code health across systems and services, continuously.
Key features include: Error tracking, performance monitoring, release health, and source code context.
Why our team loves it: Sentry is very easy to set up and configure.
Honeycomb is an observability platform that brings together and stores multiple data sources, giving engineering teams one source of truth about what’s happening in production.
Taking a different approach to other platforms that claim observability, Honeycomb unifies all data sources in a single type, and returns queries in seconds, to reveal critical issues that logs and metrics alone can’t see.
Key features include: High-cardinality observability, bubbleup analysis, distributed tracing, and open telemetry integration.
Why our team loves it: While our team is not currently using Honeycomb, we have plans to. As it stands, we use a bunch of development tools that provide us with logging – Auth0, Sentry, and Cloudwatch and we’re planning to pull them into Honeycomb later this year.
The reason we’re excited about Honeycomb is because they help developers own their own code all the way through production – with easy querying and thoughtful alerts.
Linear is a workflow tool for product and engineering teams to streamline their end-to-end product development process – from bug and issue tracking to managing project documents and roadmaps.
Key features include: Issue tracking and project management, roadmapping and planning, team collaboration, Git integration, and automation and workflows.
Why our team loves it: Our team has used a lot of different issue tracking/project management tools (Jira, ClickUp, Asana, Trello) and Linear is by far the easiest to get started with and use. We’re big fans of the keyboard shortcuts!
In one engineer’s words: “Linear does issue tracking in a way that doesn’t suck.” Enough said.
Built by developers, for developers, PostHog is a single platform where engineering and product teams can analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features.
With features including product analytics, session replay, feature flagging, experiments, and more, PostHog is incredibly cost-effective with a generous free tier making it easy to try before you buy.
Your marketing team will love it too – you can track and measure website performance alongside your product metrics.
Why our team loves it:
Mage is your self-proclaimed ‘AI data engineer’. Using their software, you can easily build, deploy, run, and monitor data pipelines.
Mage helps data and development teams extract and synchronize data from 3rd party sources, transform data with real-time and batch pipelines using Python, SQL, and R, and load data into data warehouses or data lakes using Mage’s pre-built connectors.
Key features include: Providing a unified Python interface for building data pipelines, an interactive development environment, pipeline orchestration and scheduling, flexible deployment options, and data quality testing.
Why our team loves it: We use Mage for some of our pipelines today, and will be migrating more over soon. (Our existing data pipelines are a combination of AWS lambda, step functions, and ECS tasks.) Mage gives our engineering team the ability to build, test, run, and observe pipelines from one platform.
In one of our engineer’s words: “Mage is a godsend! It just makes it easier to write and test your data pipelines.”
Storybook is a front-end platform for building UI components and pages in isolation. Free, and open source, Storybook helps you build, test, and document UI components, as well as develop edge cases without needing to run a whole app.
Key features include: Component isolation, an interactive testing environment, docs hub, and visual testing.
Why our team loves it: Both engineers and designers can collaborate on building engaging user interfaces, without needing to spin up an entire application to do so.
Chromatic is a cloud-based visual testing and review tool built specifically for Storybook; it scans UI states across web browsers to catch visual and functional bugs before they reach users. It helps streamline sign off through enabling team members to assign reviewers and resolve discussions.
Key features include: Automated visual testing, collaborative review, continuous integration, and cross-browser testing.
Why our team loves it: Chromatic allows our team to publish the previously mentioned Storybook to a shared online workplace that everyone can access. It also allows designers and product managers to participate in pull request reviews in a way that doesn't require them to sit with an engineer or to depend on static screenshots.
Separately, we’d like to give our engineering team a big shoutout for helping pull this article together, and sharing all the tools they love! 🙏
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