Daily Reading List – May 23, 2024 (#325)

You’ll find no theme in the items below, and that’s ok. This is the type of context-switching I don’t mind!

[blog] Do you suffer from Productitis? Do you have a complex product or service portfolio that’s hard for others to understand? You might be experiencing Productitis. It can be fatal, so get treatment!

[blog] Thoughts on Docs as code being a broken promise. Is treating “docs like code” in GitHub more trouble than it’s worth? Tom argues that having to deal with Git is no joke, but other aspects are worth it.

[blog] How to learn networking on Google Cloud — techventurers step by step guide. If you copy your on-premises network design and practices to the cloud, you’ll end up sad. It’s important to embrace the newer paradigm. This post offers a good list of learning resources.

[blog] Notes on how to use LLMs in your product. This offers a very good set of notes about key considerations for builders looking to add generative AI features to their products.

[article] Email Is Now the Best Social Network. I think this is right. Chat apps are mess and nobody can be on all of them. Social media is federated and there’s no single watering hole. Email just works.

[blog] Google Cloud Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization on 100+ Additional Services. This is great. More folks should have easy access to powerful cloud services.

[blog] Stripe’s monorepo developer environment. A good dev experience is comprehensive, and this writeup about Strip’s devex (as remembered from years ago) shows a good series of tech investments.

[article] Microsoft Build 2024: 6 takeaways for developers, data professionals. Congrats to Microsoft on a good Build event. This article summarizes a few things of note.

[blog] Improving connectivity and accelerating economic growth across Africa with new investments. This is an excellent investment that brings premium connectivity to folks in Africa and more people around the world.

[blog] Using Generative AI with Flutter. This post goes into some depth on using a Google SDK to bake AI capabilities into a Flutter app on mobile or web.

[report] 2024 State of the Java Ecosystem. New Relic put out their annual report that shows what folks are using for Java versions, frameworks, infrastructure resources, and more.

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