Daily Reading List – July 24, 2023 (#128)

I flew to New York today to attend meetings all week. Read a bit on the plane, and here are the highlights. Have a great week!

[article] 20 Questions to Ask When Your Team’s Vibe Is Off. If your team feels stuck or out of sync, consider this set of questions to perform a reboot.

[blog] us-west-1: The Flagship AWS Region That Isn’t. With every cloud, all regions aren’t the same. AWS seems to have some large disparities on this one, but I do feel their pain. But, customers don’t care; consistency matters!

[blog] Gossip Protocol Explained. Detailed look at how distributed systems stay in sync. You might never directly implement one of these, but the products you depend on likely use one them.

[blog] Stick to boring architecture for as long as possible. Good reminder to focus on value, and find the innovation points that will make a big difference to your architecture.

[blog] 3 Reasons Why Teams Move Away from AWS Lambda. Fluidity among runtimes is important. I like the Google Cloud bet on containers because it helps you move between compute services more easily.

[blog] Kubernetes: Innovation Enabler Or Implementation Detail? Both? Kubernetes offers a good, standard base for work, and fewer and fewer people should interact directly with it.

[blog] Bash basics. Here are some simple shell commands that are good to know. I’m always a fan of introductory content that helps folks get a strong foundation.

[article] Google Introduces a Standalone Integration Platform as a Service on Their Cloud Platform. Good writeup about our new service. I’ve got a full blog post queued up for tomorrow that goes deep.

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