Had an all-day offsite today, but still managed to read a handful of really good pieces. Check out posts below for good architecture principles, leadership advice, and security considerations.
[blog] EA Principles Series: Design for Composability. Another post in this series of “EA principles” outlined by the Chick-fil-A tech team. I go back and forth on “composability” as a goal. Sometimes it leads us to over-engineer or prematurely optimize the software. Good in theory, tricky in practice.
[blog] When to Command (and When to Collaborate). Lots of points about management and leadership in this post. Well worth a read.
[blog] Product Vision is Science Fiction. Very good post that tells you what a “product vision” is and isn’t, and helps you create one.
[blog] Google Cloud vs. Amazon and Microsoft: Is ‘New Kid’ Snatching Market Share? Some folks like to pretend that “this isn’t a zero sum game” and that all cloud vendors can win. Nah. Growth comes at the cost of others in this industry, as always.
[docs] Cloud Spanner Regional Endpoints. How are you and your teams accessing their cloud database? Our distributed SQL database Spanner always had a global endpoint, but we just added regional endpoints if you want to ensure the data is always stored and processed in one region.
[article] Software Security Report Finds JavaScript Applications Have Fewer Flaws Than Java and .NET. If you had “JavaScript is a better choice for security-conscious orgs than .NET or Java” on your bingo card, you win. Not sure I would have guessed that.
[article] How Platform Teams Can Align Stakeholders. Sometimes it’s about the journey, not the destination. Read this post for a look at how taking a product-view of your platform can help you think differently about your users and their needs.
[blog] How to choose between regional, dual-region and multi-region Cloud Storage. Cloud providers are very good at offering resilient, highly-available object storage. Here’s a look at options within Google Cloud.
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