Daily Reading List – June 28, 2023 (#112)

I took most of yesterday off to go to the San Diego Zoo with my visiting niece, but I’m back here today and read a lot of useful items. You’re seeing a real-time re-configuration of many mature ecosystems—including low-code and data analytics—to account for this new AI-crazy world. Find some related pieces below, along with much more.

[article] Mendix Embraces DevOps for Next Era of Low-Code App Development. Generative AI and automation, two things every platform will support in the coming months and years!

[article] OutSystems Embraces Generative AI to Speed App Dev. Major low-code vendors are swarming on generative AI, which makes sense.

[article] Snowflake is launching a fully managed container service: Just don’t say “Kubernetes”… Running an app service is a different beast than a data service, but the Snowflake crew see value in putting these two into the same platform.

[blog] Cloud run jobs, your parallel tasks solution. Here’s a good look at our serverless service for background jobs.

[blog] 10 principles for your event driven architecture. I don’t think I’ve seen advice like this in one place. This post offers some useful principles for those relying more on messaging and async communication.

[blog] Google is named a Leader in Forrester Functions-As-A-Service Wave. The serverless space continues to evolve, and I’m happy to see us as one of the top 2 FaaS providers.

[blog] AI Assistant in JetBrains IDEs. You’ll likely see this built-into most IDEs moving forward, and also offered as plugins by 3rd parties.

[article] 28 Questions to Ask Your Boss in Your One-on-Ones. Excellent list if you’re looking for more meaningful conversations with your manager.

[blog] Hidden Gems of BigQuery — P6 — Time-traveling and clones. Go back in time and look at data as it used to exist? That’s pretty cool, and available in BigQuery.

[blog] Meta developer tools: Working at scale. What do developers at Meta use to write code, build software, and then deploy it? This short post highlights the key tools.

[blog] Cloud Next 2023 session catalog is live, covering all of your key cloud topics. Come hang out with me and thousands of others who want to learn about what’s now and next.

[blog] Supply chain security for Go, Part 2: Compromised dependencies. Very good post that highlights three legit, not uncommon, and dangerous flaws in your supply chain. And, how Go protects against each one.

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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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