I had a great day. Work got done, my teammates shared pet pics in our group channel, and I read many interesting items. Check it out.
[article] Test-Driving HTML Templates. I can’t say I’ve ever seen this topic covered before. Matteo looks at why you’d build tests for HTML templates, and then how you’d do it.
[article] Platform Teams: Start Small to Win Big. Minimum viable platform, please. It’s really, really easy to over-engineer upfront here, but this article encourages you to iterate based on need.
[blog] Google Data Cloud innovations for continuous real-time intelligence. I like the updated stream processing capabilities we’re adding to cloud services.
[blog] In Praise of Low Tech DevEx. You don’t always have to use the newest, shiniest tool. Yes, that even includes generative AI. Ian writes a note about his tried and trusted set of dev tools.
[article] Experimenting with LLMs for Developer Productivity. This particular test looks at generating unit tests for a non-trivial web service.
[blog] Introducing VMware Tanzu Platform. This new experience from the Tanzu team within Broadcom looks to pull together a lot of existing point solutions into a more unified stack.
[blog] How Facturation.net migrated Azure VMs to Google Cloud in one weekend. If your compute is delivered via VMs or containers, moving to another cloud isn’t an impossible situation. In cases like this, it’s fairly simple.
[blog] Good Product People. Marty makes the point that “many of the best product people are not actually product people.” You don’t need to be a formal product manager to have good product thinking skills, or even lead product teams.
[blog] Maximize performance and optimize spend with Compute Engine’s latest VMs, N4 and C4. A lot of workloads run on VMs—or platforms like Kubernetes with VMs underneath—so price performance still matters a lot. It looks like if you have Java, Redis, or MySQL workloads, you should look at these new machines.
[blog] Docker Documentation Gets an AI-Powered Assistant. Look out, as AI is coming to your documentation. There’s a lot of value in using AI to summarize results or generate personalized material from the existing doc set.
[article] Stop Running Tests With Your CI/CD Tool. Is it a mistake to run your app tests within your CI pipeline? That would be news to me, but this article makes the case.
[blog] Angular v18 is now available! This widely-used and powerful web framework gets another big update.
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