Daily Reading List – August 17, 2023 (#145)

Just got home from the aiport after spending this week in Colorado, and I’m reminded that “off” is often better than “slow.” While trying to use the airplane wifi to post this article, I found that I had working wifi for about 2 minutes, and then spent the next 20 trying to get it back. I’d rather it just not work, than work poorly. At least then you can cut your losses!

[blog] How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into a Deeper Hole). There’s so much rich advice in this piece from Charity. Apply this wisdom to your professional and personal life.

[blog] The next generation of developer productivity. This recent O’Reilly survey shows dev productivity as the biggest challenge for software dev teams. Many companies are addressing it via better training and tools.

[blog] Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2. You want excitement with friends or weekend activities. Your programming languages? Not so much. Here’s a good post on how Go is working to not break your apps.

[article] Unit Tests Are Overrated: Rethinking Testing Strategies. Whatever gives you enough confidence in your code to release it automatically, go for it.

[blog] Cloud Deploy adds deploy hooks for easier rollouts. Terrific feature addition to this continuous deployment service. Now run pre and post activities for your releases.

[article] Real-Time Machine Learning: Architecture and Challenges. Outstanding talk. Learn what it means to consider both latency and freshness in ML models.

[blog] Kubernetes v1.28: Planternetes. This is a summary of the latest Kubernetes release. But remember, the reason you should keep up to date is not because of new features, but because of security patches!

[blog] DevOps Award winner Moloco on ‘accelerating DevOps with machine learning’. Another piece that touches on continuous model training and deployment. I sense that this will become (for some) a key pattern in the years ahead.

[blog] How we reduced the size of our JavaScript bundles by 33%. Everyone has tech debt. Here’s how Dropbox Engineering improved performance and team velocity by simplifying their JavaScript bundles.

[article] How Google Unlocks and Measures Developer Productivity. Lots of details in this story, many of which are helpful for companies of any size.

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