Daily Reading List – August 15, 2023 (#143)

I’m in Colorado for a team offsite this week because that’s my life now. I basically just attend offsites and tweet. It’s what I do. Today was a great day with my team, and I’m so fortunate to work with these folks!

[blog] The CEO Job Description: In Reductionist Form. This post has good reductionist summaries of key corporate functions. His description of the CEO’s main job was useful to me.

[article] Your App Will Fail if Your Documentation Is Bad. If you have a great app and bad docs, you’ll likely see poor adoption.

[blog] Is Product Led Growth (PLG) the DevOps of the DevRel World? You may skip past this because you’d think that headline won’t apply to you, but there’s good thinking here on product-led growth and developer engagement that matters to many.

[blog] Every Sales Forecast Call Should Start With These 5 Metrics. Wait, why is this in a roundup of tech news? I cast a wide net! It’s important for me to have empathy with different roles in the org, and this was a helpful refresher on what sales leaders care about.

[blog] Local development of Go applications with Testcontainers. Good step-by-step instructions here for anyone looking to do more complete local testing.

[article] 7 low code platforms embracing AI. It seems silly to say, but if you’re a low-code platform that is NOT embracing generative AI, I doubt your future prospects.

[article] LLM App Ecosystem: What’s New and How Cloud Native Is Adapting. An LLM stack seems to be emerging, and it’ll impact devs, data folks, and ops teams.

[blog] Five New Official Redis Clients. Developers who use Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, and C# will be happy to see officially supported Redis clients.

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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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