Blog 84: Tools in product development … (6/7)

Continued from blog 83.

Product management is a vast field with multiple sub-fields. They range from:

1.      Strategy & planning (various tools highlighted in blog 79).

2.      Design (UI/UX) (various tools highlighted in blog 80).

3.      Execution & tactics (various tools highlighted in blog 81).

4.      Go-to-market (various tools highlighted in blog 82).

5.      Metrics & performance (various tools highlighted in blog 83)

6.      Product development & technology (various tools highlighted in blog 84).

7.      Cross-functional (various tools highlighted in blog 85).

There are several specialised tools catering to each of these sub-fields. In this blog we look at the sixth sub-field product development & technology tools.

Front End (programming languages, frameworks): Refer blog 20: Chose a tech stack that worked for us; blog 21: 10 tech stacks for software development.

Back End (programming languages, frameworks, web servers, databases): Refer blog 20: Chose a tech stack that worked for us; blog 21: 10 tech stacks for software development.

Overarching layer:

·  cloud platforms (Google Cloud, Azure, AWS)

·  containerisation tech (Docker, Kubernetes),

·  deployment automation (Vagrant, Jenkins)

·  monitoring systems (Newrelic, Splunk)

Email validations:

·  Mailgun: Primarily used it to send email validations, to new users, signing up on our app.

End-to-end email testing service:

·  MailSlurp: API platform for building SMS and email applications, automations, and integration tests. Primarily used it as an end-to-end email testing service.

API frameworks:

·  Swagger: Swagger is an open-source set of rules, specifications and tools for developing and describing RESTful APIs.

·  Postman

Debugging REST API:

·  SoapUI: SoapUI is an automated testing tool for SOAP and REST APIs.

·  Fiddler: Aims to make debugging and troubleshooting easy. The Fiddler set of tools helps you promptly identify errors to effectively fix them.

Product performance tools:

· Google lighthouse: Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages.

· Dynatrace: Dynatrace is a software intelligence platform designed to help organizations monitor, optimize, and manage the performance of their applications, infrastructure, and digital experiences.

Search at scale:

· Elastic: It is a search company that builds self-managed and software as a service offering for search, logging, security, observability, and analytics use cases.

Note: The list of companies mentioned above are ONLY a SAMPLE list and NOT an exhaustive list.

Jump to blog 100 to refer to the overall product management mind map.

I wish you the best for your journey. 😊