Daily Reading List – August 10, 2023 (#140)

After thirteen meetings today, I’m a potato. Ready for a quiet evening of attacking my kids and reading a book. I still found time to read a handful of good items today. Take a look!

[blog] Application Architecture as Code. Architects will enjoy this post from Gregor. Read through for his take on cloud automation and how it’s more about the connections nowadays than the infrastructure.

[blog] Cloud Speech-to-Text V2 API and Chirp are now Generally Available with new lower pricing tier. We offer some truly excellent AI/ML APIs, and this is one of our most mature services. The V2 API has lots of new things, including access to our latest large speech model.

[article] Is Jamstack Toast? Some Developers Say Yes, Netlify Says No. Static sites seemed to have peaked, but the “composable web” thing has legs.

[blog] Graceful behavior at capacity. Bookmark this. You’ll likely want to refer to it a few times. Just an outstanding post about system performance at scale.

[blog] From PM to PMM: Making the leap to product marketing. This post offers a useful distinction between product marketing and product management.

[blog] 3 Proven Ways To Improve Dev Focus. Protect developer flow at all costs! Some useful advice here.

[article] As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending. Wow. This will have implications for those who deliver services based on open source like Terraform. Spicy discussion on Hacker News.

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