MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2025 ★ SUBSCRIBER EDITION VOL. IV, NO. 12
The Signal
Intelligence for the modern builder
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Markets

Developer tools funding hits five-year high

Venture capital poured $2.4 billion into developer infrastructure this quarter, led by AI-adjacent tooling.


Open source momentum accelerates in enterprise

Fortune 500 adoption of open-source toolchains surged 34% year-over-year.

Analysis

Why the next wave of SaaS will look nothing like the last

The era of feature-bloated platforms is ending. What comes next is leaner, faster, and built on a new set of design principles.

For the better part of a decade, the dominant model for software-as-a-service was simple: more features, more integrations, more dashboards. That logic is now being dismantled.

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