Do you ever have those weeks where you are always playing catch-up and can’t seem to get on top of your work? Some of you scoff and say, “pfft, a week? Try drowning for a decade, mister!” Fair enough. But I finally got mostly caught up today, and it feels good. I hope you conquered the inbox beast today, or at least mortally wounded it.
[blog] Why use Flutter in 2024. Read this to learn more about Flutter as a mobile/web framework and whether you should bet on it.
[article] Tech Works: How to Build a Career Like a Pragmatic Engineer. How do you build out a career as an engineer? Do you need to work for a Big Tech company? This article has lots of useful guidance for folks at any stage of their career.
[blog] Our Collective Struggle Over Technical Debt. Some pragmatic advice here. Can you ever eliminate tech debt? Do you need to embrace it, and manage it?
[blog] 4 ways to reduce cold start latency on Google Kubernetes Engine. I love tips like this that are super actionable.
[blog] Transforming Legacy Code — A Software Consultant’s Perspective. No new ground here, but a good reminder that modernizing code won’t be a right-click operation for any AI tooling in the near term!
[blog] The Cost Crisis in Observability Tooling. You’re capturing more logs and metrics? Great! But your cost is now going up faster than you thought. Charity says that “observability 1.0” isn’t set up for cost and value at scale.
[blog] Fear and Loathing in Security Dashboards. Do you “trust” the security dashboards and their many warnings and alerts? Michele explains why they can be useful, but limited in value.
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