Daily Reading List – June 17, 2024 (#341)

I enjoyed my Father’s Day weekend. Being a Dad has sketchy hours, inconsistent performance reviews, but excellent pay!

[blog] Experts vs. Imitators. How can you tell the difference? That’s an important question nowadays as you look for folks to trust on investing, technology, and life in general.

[article] 5 Traps to Avoid as You Gain Power as a Leader. The alternative title for this article could have been “Things Richard has done poorly as a manager.” Most of us probably relate to these.

[blog] Exploring Google Cloud networking enhancements for generative AI applications. I liked this post because I don’t see enough people talking about this. What changes in your architecture and expectations because of generative AI? The “typical traffic” versus “gen AI traffic” table alone is worth the read.

[blog] Driving etcd Stability and Kubernetes Success. It’s not unusual for important systems to be dependent on lesser-known components. There’s no Kubernetes today without etcd, and this post explains how we’re helping keep it healthy.

[blog] Load Balancing Blitz — Introduction. This was a fun physical demo at Google Cloud Next, and showed off the value of traffic-shaping automation in a load balancer service.

[blog] Friday Forward – Speech Rules. “Do what you can, with what you have, with the people around you.” That’s a good personal mantra from Speech Thomas, and Bob shares his thoughts.

[blog] Kubernetes Environment Variables – Setting & Managing. Lots of details for a very specific topic, but it’s a helpful one.

[article] Meeting federal software supply chain mandates. We’re only a few months away from enforcement of a new standard for those selling software to the US government. Get those software bill of materials ready!

[blog] Reflecting on 20 years at Chick-fil-A. I’m not a job-hopper, but I also haven’t stayed in any company for more than 6 years, or any individual role for more than 2. I admire those that build a career in one spot, while continuing to develop. Bravo, Brian.

[blog] Advanced Rollout Techniques: Custom Strategies for Stateful Apps in Kubernetes. This is from the Slack Engineering team and looks at custom rollout logic.

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