Daily Reading List – August 21, 2023 (#147)

Happy Monday! I survived the much-discussed SoCal hurricane with only a wet lawn and a few leaves out of place. Other places got it much worse, so I’m thankful that this was a boring event here. Plan for the worst, as my first link below touches on!

[blog] This Is How To Succeed Under Pressure: 4 Secrets From Astronauts. Fun, informative post that can help you think more strategically.

[blog] What’s new in Flutter 3.13. This quarterly release of the popular app framework has a lot of improvements in it.

[blog] On-Device ML using Flutter and TensorFlow Lite (pt.1): Model Training. Front-end devs are getting into the ML game. Angular folks too.

[blog] The Future of Terraform – OpenTF Manifesto! I don’t know where this effort leads to, but it’d be foolish to not pay attention. See more here.

[article] Tech Works: How to Fill the 27 Million AI Engineer Gap. There aren’t enough tech people who know AI, which isn’t shocking given how fast it’s become mainstream. This story serves up a set of suggestions for what to learn, and how.

[blog] GBS (Global Business Services) is dead. Long live GBS (Generative Business Services). Provocative, important topic. is it time to revisit your cost-and-efficiency oriented shared services team? This post says yes.

[blog] Deploy using Helm Charts on GKE: Continuous Delivery Pipeline using Google Cloud Build & Google Cloud Deploy. Here’s a good walkthrough of deploying changes automatically to a series of Kubernetes clusters.

[article] Follow the cloud money. Will collective open source efforts work without cloud support? Matt says, probably not. He looks at a few new efforts and is skeptical they’ll get off the ground.

[site] Cloud Architecture Center. We’ve got a refreshed version of the Google Cloud Architecture Center with easier navigation, new content groupings, and much more. It’s a terrific site for learning modern architecture.

[blog] You Can’t Deliver Value To Customers: Key Lessons For Tech Leaders. This is a good reminder, and one I needed. I can’t deliver value to someone, it’s based on customer perception and more.

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