Daily Reading List – July 26, 2023 (#130)

It was another enjoyable, busy day with meetings in NYC. I’m very grateful to work with such smart folks who are apparently as competitive and eager to win as I am. The content I read today spanned topics, and I’d bet you find one or two things you like.

[blog] Handling Retries in Messaging Systems. This post explains some of the basic patterns as they relate to cloud-based messaging services.

[blog] Common pitfalls in Go benchmarking. Eli points out where your benchmarking test can go wrong, and these pitfalls should apply to most any compiled language.

[blog] Setting up Kafka Strimzi Operator and Kafka Cluster on GKE. Running stateful workloads on Kubernetes a few years ago would have gotten you some sideways glances, but today it’s a reasonable thing to do.

[blog] Getting started with Go guide. Gentle introduction, with good narration about how things work.

[blog] Cloud Deploy gets deploy parameters, new console creation flows, and reduced pricing. This might now be the best continuous deployment service from a hyperscaler. The usability got better with more UI-based flows, the configurability improved with deploy parameters, and the “getting started” price is now attractive.

[blog] PaLM API Firebase Extensions Tutorial. I’m not sure how you would add “text summarization” to a site or app in years past, but generative AI makes it fairly simple now.

[blog] Should you job hop every ~2 years? Staying at a company for nearly 20 years isn’t super common in the tech space. Brian’s done it, and has thoughts on when to stay and when to go.

[blog] DevRel Management and Leadership: Guidance, Skill Development, and Book Recommendations. Great book suggestions from Daniel, and you should pick these up if you’re in any technical org, not just DevRel.

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