Daily Reading List – August 7, 2023 (#137)

Did you have a good weekend? Summer is still in full swing here in San Diego and I was able to enjoy some nice weather. At work, we’re running full-speed ahead towards Google Cloud Next, which should be a terrific show. Sign up at least for the online portion!

[blog] Building a Successful SRE Team. Good advice to make sure your SRE team doesn’t become some ivory-tower group that nobody listens to.

[article] Don’t quit your day job: Generative AI and the end of programming. Software development is so much more than programming. Good article from Mike that explains how programming may change for the better.

[article] Mastering the Art of the Request. Are you good at asking for what you want? Does it work? This article has a few helpful tips to have more impact.

[blog] Building internet-scale event-driven applications with Cloud Spanner change streams. Cool post that shows change streams in action. It includes guidance on routing to Apache Kafka as well.

[article] How to End a Software Project. This isn’t talked about a lot, but it’s an important topic. How do you responsibly shut things down?

[blog] Maximizing Reliability, Minimizing Costs: Right-Sizing Kubernetes Workloads. We might be conditioned to always ask for more than we need, but when it comes to Kubernetes, don’t do that. It’s expensive. This post shows you how to right-size.

[article] Google Report Reveals Most Widely Used Cloud Attack Vectors. Stolen credentials are by far the most prevalent attack vector. Plan accordingly!

[report] August 2023 Threat Horizons Report. The Google Cybersecurity Action Team (great name) shipped their latest report which shared their latest intelligence on threats. Related to the story above.

[site] TIOBE Index for August 2023. Most popular programming languages? Some big changes from last August with C++, JavaScript, and Go up. Java, VB, and Swift down. And Julia in the top 20.

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