I like working from the close-by Google office a few days a week. Today was a work from home day, and it was nice to take short breaks to mess with the kids enjoying Summer break. Helping a kiddo with a puzzle for five minutes is a good reset from work madness!
[blog] Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify. The crew at Spotify share lots of good info about experimentation, and now their commercializing their homegrown platform.
[blog] Why Open Source Matters. Does it matter if Meta misuses the term open source? Or if companies invent new types of licenses? To most of us, it’s white noise. But the definitions do matter, as Stephen expertly explains here.
[blog] Crashes are not a matter of if… but when. Brian talks about resilience, and the systems around us to bounce back from the inevitable messes.
[blog] Generative AI TuringBots Win Again In Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies. What’s the future hold for AI bots used by developers to write software? Forrester Research has been looking at this for a while, and has good thoughts.
[blog] Technical Feasibility in Software Development. When deciding on whether to do a project or not, are you consider all the dimensions? Technical feasibility? Schedule feasibility? Operational feasibility?
[blog] Your failures are yours. We don’t like to admit this, but we’re better off if we own our failings and learn from them.
[page] SRE Checklist. Whether you’re doing SRE or not, you might find usefulness in this checklist of processes, production requirements, and more.
[article] Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future. Good talk (and transcript) from Joe that explains a lot about how we got to the current landscape of IaC offerings.
[blog] How To Measure the Value of Internal Tools. I’d bet that most of you have homegrown tools that help you do your job better. What’s it worth? What does it cost? Square Engineering shares their thinking on it.
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