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Automate your roadmap with this tool

You finally finished wrapping up that piece of code. You’ve run it, passed your tests, and now you’ve shipped it into a full fledged product. Done, right? As most devs will tell you, that’s where the job begins.

From there, you have to maintain the code base, fix pesky bugs, and continually ship new features to keep your product relevant. One often over looked part of the developer cycle is in communication — specifically user communication.

Git2Log is a free tool that aims to remove the extra step it usually takes to relay changes to your users. It automatically takes your git commits and transforms them into a beautiful, public, customer friendly change log so you can keep your users informed about the latest updates and improvements effortlessly.

It works in three easy steps. First, you copy and paste your most recent commit into the app. Second, you select the framework you want for your change log like Tailwind, Bootstrap, etc. Third, well that’s it. Hit publish and your change log is ready to be shared with the world.

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PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT

Build and ship APIs faster

API development has come a long way since the days of punched paper tape and filing cabinets, but it’s not always a field of roses. Developers frequently encounter challenges in managing the API lifecycle, ensuring integration, maintaining collaboration, and resolving debugging issues. That’s where a tool like ApyHub Fusion comes in. 

It’s marketed as an all-in-one API development client focusing on team collaboration. The interface takes on a familiar, Notion-esque design, built to foster deeper collaboration and make it easier to write great documentation. 

ApyHub Fusion comes with real-time collaboration features right out of the box, like the type you would see in Figma and Google Docs. Everyone — from frontend and backend developers to QA, technical writers, and product managers — can view, discuss, and collaborate on API specs, tests, and documentation in real-time.

According to CEO Samuel Kaluvuri, one of the things that separates ApyHub from other legacy API clients is that each aspect of an API request is modular and composable, including headers, query parameters, form inputs, JSON bodies, and scripts. This gives developers much more flexibility in how APIs are built and how the documentation is written.

COMMUNITY LEARNING

Our Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL

If you’ve ever been tasked with migrating a large-scale product between databases, you probably know the frustration and stress that can come with it. It usually involves adopting new technology, creating new database schemas, rewiring logic, rewriting queries, and migrating potentially millions of records. It can get overwhelming quickly.

Tony Dang, co-founder of Infisical, a tool that helps Node.js teams sync and manage their environment variables, recently embarked on this journey with his startup. He and his team decided to plan out every step of the way before making the move from MongoDB to PostgreSQL, and we all get to benefit from it since he posted, in my opinion, an A+ account of his experience that we can learn from.

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Written by Aaron O’Leary.

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