Daily Reading List – September 11, 2023 (#159)

Took a trip up to Sunnyvale today to speak at an event tomorrow. Look through the following items from today, and I bet you’ll find one or two that really get you thinking.

[blog] The 11 Types Of Toxic Pull Requests (According To 4.5 Million Code Branches). Do you have lumpy delivery even though developers seem to be cranking out code at a good clip? Maybe your engineering workflow is a little messed up. Read this to see if it resonates.

[blog] DevRel Superpowers: Helping to Define Ideal Customer Profiles and Buyer Personas. Daniel’s been writing some wonderful content lately, and even if you’re not in DevRel or don’t have a DevRel team, you might appreciate his thinking on identifying your ideal customer profile.

[blog] What languages are supported in WebAssembly outside the browser? I keep hearing that Wasm will be “the next Docker” but there’s still a lot of experimental bits and limited support in key programming languages. Keep an eye on it, though.

[blog] What 5 AI unicorns think is the NEXT big thing. Hear what companies like Anthropic and Character.AI think the future looks like.

[blog] Exploring Event-Driven Architecture: A Beginner’s Guide for Cloud Native Developers. Good intro to these important patterns, including a discussion of when it makes sense to use it, and when not to.

[article] What is LangChain? Easier development around LLMs. If you’ve been craving more info about this framework for building apps that use generative AI models, check this out.

[blog] An optimal CI/CD system. One of the Istio contributors explores the current Ci/CD process for that project, and where it could get better.

[blog] Scaling Kafka to Support PayPal’s Data Growth. Impressive scale, and this post has a terrific deep dive into how they think about ops, dev experience, and more.

[blog] The Worst Programmer I Know. Outstanding post that encourages us to observe our engineering system health, not just individual performance metrics.

[article] Kubernetes Building Blocks: Nodes, Pods, Clusters. Terrific beginner article for those getting their head around Kubernetes.

[blog] Bun 1.0. Have you been following the development of this Node.js replacement for JavaScript apps? Now that it’s 1.0, you should take a longer look. I’m impressed with what they’ve built. More on Bun.

[article] Fear blocks enterprise innovation hopes as competition mounts. A lot of leaders fear making the wrong choice, especially now as so much is happening so fast.

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