Our Favorite Developer Tools of 2020

We start off the year discussing our favorite developer tools of 2020, as Joe starts his traditions early, Allen is sly about his résumé updates, and Michael lives to stream.

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News

• Thank you for the new reviews we received this holiday!
  • iTunes: larsankile, 0xACE, Tbetcha33, The_Shrike_, shineycloud
• Watch Joe speak at the virtual San Diego Elastic Meetup, Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 5:00 PM PST, where he is talking about Easy Local Development with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes using Skaffold.
  • Signup at community.elastic.co.
• Join our game jam January 21 – 24, 2021 and let’s make games!

The Top Tools of 2020

• K9s – A terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes cluster.
• Popeye – A utility that scans a live Kubernetes cluster and reports potential issues with deployed resources and configurations.
• All things JetBrains, especially IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and DataGrip. Amazing, cross-platform tools that developers from all tech stacks can use.
• Skaffold – Handles the workflow for building, pushing, and deploying your application within Kubernetes, allowing you to focus on writing your code.
• Kustomize – A template-free way to customize Kubernetes application configuration, built into kubectl.
• Oh My Zsh – An open source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.<