DEV Community
DEV Community (also known as DEV or dev.to) is an online software development community created by Ben Halpern, Jess Lee and Peter Kim Frank.[1] It is visited by software developers who publish blog posts and discussions on topics such as software bugs and career advice.[2]
History[edit]
DEV Community started as a the "ThePracticalDev" Twitter account in August 2014 by Ben Halpern. The account gained notoriety by sharing relevant software development news and commenting humorously on industry norms.[3] DEV Community was founded as a company by Ben Halpern, Jess Lee and Peter Kim Frank in January 2017. In August 2018 the website's source code was released as open-source software.[4]
DEV Community received the 2019 Hacker Noon Noonies Award for "Best Dev Community", beating out runners-up GitHub and Makerlog.[5] As of January 2021, the website is visited over 11 million times per month according to SimilarWeb.[6]
Funding[edit]
In November 2019, DEV Community announced a Series A funding round of $11.5 million led by Mayfield.[7] According to Navin Chaddha, DEV Community intends to bring transparency and trust to the social web.[8]
Technology[edit]
DEV Community is built on top of the Forem project using the Ruby on Rails and Preact software libraries.[9] It uses PostgreSQL and Redis as its data stores. As of January 2021, Forem has over 15,800 GitHub stars and has been forked over 2,700 times.[10]
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- ↑ "DEV Raises $11.5M to Expand Fastest-Growing Social Network for the Software Industry". PRNewswire. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- ↑ "What Is dev.to? A Guide for Marketers, Written By a Techie". Hit Subscribe. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
- ↑ "These hilarious memes perfectly capture what it's like to work in tech". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
- ↑ "VCs say these 19 startups for open-source software developers will blow up in 2019". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
- ↑ "Best Dev Community - Noonies". Hacker Noon. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
- ↑ "Dev.to Analytics". SimilarWeb. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
- ↑ "DEV Raises $11.5M to Be The Premiere Online Community for Software Developers Of Every Skill Level". AlleyWatch. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
- ↑ "Dev.to: Authentic Founders with a Bold Mission and the Power of Open Source Can Build Industry Defining Companies". Mayfield. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- ↑ "DEV and Forem with Ben Halpern" (PDF). Software Engineering Daily. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
- ↑ "forem/forem: For empowering community". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
