Daily Reading List – July 12, 2023 (#120)

I’m spending a lot of my day helping with our upcoming products and plans for Google Cloud Next. Hope I’ll see some of you there. In the meantime, I read content on a mix of topics today.

[article] Are LLMs Leading DevOps Into a Tech Debt Trap? Will all these generative AI models lead us to create even more stuff we have to maintain, or can we use it to collaborate on understanding what we have? It’ll end up as a mix of both.

[blog] Identify and assess the red/yellow/green flags within your culture. How do you “grade” aspects of your team or company culture? Here’s one approach.

[article] The Simple Power of Communicating with Kindness. Folks can make it to the “top” by being jerks, but that’s not a path most of us want to choose. This is a good piece on what it means to engage differently.

[blog] Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms Istio Maturity with Project Graduation. It’s good to see this popular service mesh graduate to top-level status in the CNCF.

[blog] Dear Technical Architects, It’s Time To Sink Or Swim. Forrester Research calls out the repeating cycle of standing up architecture teams and disbanding them. They point out a few areas where architects need to repair reputations.

[blog] The mystery of how many developers there are in the world: is it 100 million, or more like 16 million? GitHub says 100 million, IDC says 16 million. Coté buys the lower numbers, as do I.

[article] What’s Holding up WebAssembly’s Adoption? Here’s a look at WebAssembly’s trajectory and what might help it take off.

[blog] Comparing 10 Managed Kubernetes Services. Not a deep look, but could be useful if you wanted to see what options existed out there for managed Kubernetes.

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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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