Daily Reading List – June 12, 2024 (#338)

A lot of today’s reading list hit home for me. I came across useful surveys, professional guidance, and a couple of sneaky-inspiring tech ideas.

[blog] Docker Launches 2024 State of Application Development Report. Every survey tells a story, usually not a universal one because of the polled audience. But that’s ok. There are interesting signals in these results.

[article] How to Work for an Overly Critical Boss. You may have this type of boss. You may BE this type of boss. This article is useful to both.

[article] C++ language rises in Tiobe popularity index. Far from shrinking into obscurity after White House directives to use other languages, C++ actually moves UP a spot to #2 in language usage. Take that, government!

[blog] Accelerating cloud transformation with Google Cloud and Oracle. This is a very meaningful partnership, with Oracle able to host and operate databases in our data center, customers able to deploy databases via self service and operate, and no cross-cloud data transfer fees when connecting OCI to Google Cloud.

[blog] Smart Paste for context-aware adjustments to pasted code. This is a genuinely useful tool for our Google developers. Lots of pasted code gets tweaked slightly, so we use AI to contextualize it automatically.

[article] Snowflake, DataBricks and the Fight for Apache Iceberg Tables. Are you tracking Iceberg as an open standard to keep an eye on? You might want to do that.

[blog] How it’s Made: GenType Alphabet Creator. Informative post about a fun experiment we put online this week. Maybe you can use this in your next presentation?

[article] How much does unplanned IT downtime really cost? A lot, apparently. Not just in revenue, but also fines and brand equity.

[blog] Protocols and Peak Performance. There aren’t shortcuts to peak performance. As Brad says here, it’s about consistency and community. Doing the fundamentals over and over, and having the right people around you.

[article] Developers’ reality check, according to Gergely Orosz: More work, ‘boring’ tech, and less promotions. I noticed lots of “hard truths” in this summary of Gergely’s recent talk. Hard to disagree with any of these.

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Author: Richard Seroter

Richard Seroter is currently the Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud and leads the Developer Relations program. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former InfoQ.com editor plus former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. As Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud, Richard leads the team of developer advocates, developer engineers, outbound product managers, and technical writers who ensure that people find, use, and enjoy Google Cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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