Daily Wrap Up – March 8, 2023 (#043)

It’s “Friday” for me as once again I’m taking the next two days off. Heading to Florida for a wedding, and a quick stop at the Mouse House. Enjoy today’s excellent links, and see you on Monday!

[article] When — and How — to Keep a Poker Face at Work. We’re all human (I think) and it’s hard to not visually react to things at work. Some advice here.

[article] Cloud trends 2023: Cost management surpasses security as top priority. This is a good annual research report that offers helpful insight into cloud consumption. Check out this summary, and then grab the whole report.

[blog] At Box, a game plan for migrating critical storage services from HBase to Cloud Bigtable. Moving lots of data to a new repository? AND trying to do that with no downtime? Here’s a good case study.

[blog] Five Things That Change When You Become A Manager. Are you a new manager? Thinking of becoming one? My colleague Aja wrote up an outstanding assessment of what to expect.

[blog] High-performance JSON parsing in Go. The post is about finding a faster/better JSON parser than what’s built into Go, but it’s also a good example regarding exploring what’s available before deciding to do your own thing.

[blog] GCP Workload Identity Federation with Azure. I read this short post which explained how to authenticate from Azure to Google Cloud without needing service account keys.

[blog] Getting More from Your Team Health Checks. How do you “check in” on your team? Is it structured? How do you absorb feedback and adjust? Here’s how Spotify does it.

[blog] Sentiment analysis with BigQuery ML. Using IMDB movie reviews, this post shows how to generate a sentiment analysis ML model all without leaving BigQuery.

[blog] 7 Steps to Improve Code Quality. Good advice here if you’re building an engineering culture that focuses on quality, not just speed.

[blog] Accelerating the MongoDB-Google Cloud partnership to make data more open and transformative. No platform is an island. A modern cloud platform offers lots of built-in capabilities, but also embraces and enables best-of-breed providers. I’m happy that we’re doing more with the gang at MongoDB.

[blog] 40 (Roadmap Item) Questions. Are you having trouble prioritizing items on your roadmap or figuring out what really matters? This is a great list of questions you should ask.

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