Great day with folks on my team and our field folks in Sunnyvale. it’s always energizing to be around smart, hungry folks. Lots of good nuggets below for tech leaders.
[blog] The Ultimate Guide to Developer Counter-Productivity. Do you want a long, detailed list of all the frustrating, low-leverage activities that crush your developer’s spirit? OF COURSE YOU DO. Read this and empathize.
[blog] Showing Our Work: A Study In Understanding Open Source Contributors. Brief post based on research into open source contributors, including why they pick projects and why they stay engaged.
[article] Where Should Your Company Start with GenAI? Here’s a different lens to use when figuring out which sorts of work and projects you should target with generative AI.
[blog] Develop and Test Spring Boot Applications Consistently. Local emulation of key cloud services can make testing easier. This post shows how you can do that.
[blog] 3 ways CIOs and CISOs can encourage innovation in their organizations. Posts like this are usually fairly generic, but I thought the advice here was pretty solid.
[article] AWS Lambda Deprecates Go Runtime. I’m sure this is frustrating for devs. But do note that for any serverless function environment, you’re at the mercy of the provider for supported languages and runtime versions.
[article] Stop Overworking After Vacation. I feel personally attacked by this article, which is good. I should be better about easing back into work after a break.
[blog] Light the way ahead: Platform Engineering, Golden Paths, and the power of self-service. Good post on how platform engineering teams can light a path for developers, and what that might look like.
[blog] Improving launch time of Stable Diffusion on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) by 4X. Very good writeup that shows an example of fixing the root problems, versus building a bunch of ancillary workarounds to accommodate a problem.
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