[Developer Digest - Issue #5] EpicVsApple, Whatsapp Encryption, Playdate Pulp, How Data Shapes the Uber Rider App

Epic win for developers 🙂 In the Epic v. Apple trial, the judge mandates that Apple must allow all developers the option to point directly to other payment systems, in addition to Apple’s own in-app purchasing system. This decision cuts right to the heart of the roughly $19 billion a year the App Store brings in for Apple, as at the end of the day, the App Store makes most of its money off in-app purchases inside free-to-download games. In Epic’s defence, as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman points out - they got the judge to make the biggest business model change to the app store. [Source].

WhatsApp Fixes Its Biggest Encryption Loophole - Before, if you back up your WhatsApp messages to iCloud or Google Cloud, those chats no longer have that level of protection of enabling end-to-end encryption—by default. It’s a loophole, a function of WhatsApp relying on other people’s clouds to stash your stuff. Now, thanks to some clever cryptography, the Facebook-owned company has cooked up a way to close it. | Read

It’s raining big money for the enterprise startups like Snyk is a cloud-native application security provider that raises $300 million at a $4.7 billion valuation, and Databricks, the open-source data lake and data management powerhouse that has just secured $1.6 billion in series H funding at an insane valuation of $38 billion after months of securing $1 billion.

The Case for ‘Developer Experience’ - A16Z’s Jean Yang writes on how developers interface with their tools, and the way we build, buy and use them.

DevFest India 2021 is the annual developer’s fest organized by the Indian GDG community | October 22 - 24 | to register.

Dreamforce 2021 for Developers | September 21–23 | to register.

SnykCon Fetch the Flag- 20 hands-on hacking challenges | October 5 | to register.

HashiConf Global - An online HashiCorp community conference | October 19-20 | Register to Livestream.

Distributed SQL Summit 2021 | September 21 - 23 | to register.

[Game Dev] Codecon Digital | September 25 | to register.

Tracking the key metrics of my life by Felix Krause

Note: I understand, I missed a couple of weeks to publish Issue#5. The reason is that I’ve been settling on a new gig. Now we are back on track and had so much fun making Issue #5 and have new ideas in store for upcoming issues. Stay tuned!

Thank you for your patience, and see you all next week :)