Do you have a nice weekend planned? Take some time away from screens and do something unplanned. Before then, scan through some good items I read today.
[blog] When customers are “willing” to pay. As you’re pricing your product and planning for long term growth, how should approach it? I learned some things from this post.
[blog] Modern data pipeline building with BigQuery Dataform. This looks like a fairly straightforward service for building data transformations.
[blog] Keeping up with big shifts in tech. Here’s a panel-style blog post with experienced developers who have seen paradigm changes in the past, and offer advice on how to handle each new wave.
[blog] Custom Environment Variables in Workflows. If you’re building long-running processes, you’re probably using a workflow engine. This cloud option is a good one, and this new feature is useful.
[blog] Testing Kafka Applications with Testcontainers. These folks have been publishing great blog posts lately. Here’s an example of Java unit tests and fire up an ephemeral Kafka instance.
[blog] Kindness Ratio. What’s your praise-to-criticism ratio? One sided towards the negative? That sometimes explains why someone has challenging relationships at work or home. Good reminder here.
[article] Microservices Security in a Nutshell. You’ll find a comprehensive list of dimensions to consider when planning out your security approach.
[article] How to Train Generative AI Using Your Company’s Data. This offers a look at a few of the options for personalizing a LLM with your own data.
[youtube-video] Data and ML go to couples’ therapy. Spend 60 seconds watching this and I promise you’ll chuckle at least once. Probably thrice.
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