Daily Reading List – July 5, 2023 (#115)

I had a good long weekend for the US Independence Day holiday, and now have 3 days to do 5 days of work! I read lots of good items today, and hope you find one or two that resonate with you.

[blog] Why Integration Testing Is Key to Testing Microservices. Good post on why integrations tests matter, and one way to do realistic tests between the services in your architecture.

[blog] How to choose between REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC vs. SOAP. Quick look at a few of the possible API styles.

[youtube-video] Why We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford (Inventor of JSON). Hot take from a very credible individual. Warts and all, JavaScript doesn’t see to be waning in popularity.

[article] FinOps Gaining Ground, But Progress is Slow. It looks like a lot of companies are formally investing cost management for cloud, but the timeline for positive results seems too long.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: Late June 2023. This issue includes a strong intro about the “zero-day summer” we’re facing and how to stay safe.

[article] AI’s impact on cost savings, productivity, and jobs. Matt looks at how smarter companies will use AI to accelerate their teams, not shrink them.

[webinar] Developer Stories: Road to Java on GCP Serverless – What can trip you up? Tomorrow (July 6) at 9am PT, my colleague is looking at the benefits and risks of running Java on a serverless platform. I’ve seen the talk; it’s a good one regardless of which platform you currently use.

[article] PlatformCon 2023: Bigger and Even Better. Is PlatformCon becoming one of the next great events in our industry? Maybe so. Terrific write up here of what we’re all learning about platform engineering.

[article] Why the government should take a page from Google’s IT playbook. Speaking of SRE and platform-thinking, this piece encourages government agencies to copy our SRE practices.

[article] Generative AI Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, or Google? It’s early days for generative AI, but the major cloud vendors have been preparing for this for years. How does each stack match up?

[article] Getting started with Google’s PaLM API. This is a good step-by-step example of using a notebook to interact with our LLM to write a blog post for you.

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