I’m leaving on Saturday morning for a week-long trip to Europe to visit with customers and speak at an event in Paris. I guess I should start preparing! That sounds like a job for tomorrow.
[blog] The Simplicity Fetish. Long post, but it makes an important point. Some problems are complicated or complex, and trying to “boil it down” or “summarize in three bullet points” isn’t helping.
[blog] Testcontainers: The Simplest Way to Test Kubernetes Operators. Do you really need to stand up a full Kubernetes cluster in your testing pipeline just to run tests against custom-built Kubernetes operators? Not if you do it this way.
[blog] WASI support in Go. As WebAssembly gains steam for out-of-browser use cases, access to the system resources (like file systems) is a must-have. That’s what WASI offers, and now Go has preview support.
[blog] Introducing Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud resources with Terraform. Details on this new fully-managed service for building out cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
[blog] Last Mile Data Processing with Ray. This is a good post from the Pinterest Engineering team on how they switched their approach to processing data for ML models.
[article] A comeback for private clouds. I don’t see it, but we all talk to different people. Even the term “private cloud” bothers me, as 98% of the time, it’s automation around a VM platform. It’s not scalable, on-demand, metered databases, messaging services, app-centric compute, or ML capabilities. So no, don’t fall for the private cloud trap. Invest in differentiation, not local infra.
[article] PostgreSQL brings more performance, security to open-source database. Good update to this popular database. This software is one of the few “safe bets” in tech nowadays.
[blog] Building RAG-based LLM Applications for Production (Part 1). Now THIS is a blog post. Wow, amazing depth into what it takes to build apps that augment the LLM query with other data sources.
[blog] The Real Problem with Software Development. The argument here is that “complexity” is the hardest part of software and its lifecycle.
[blog] What exactly is “developer experience”? Coté answers a few hot questions with succinct answers.
[blog] How to use Gmail’s new meeting-scheduling feature. This looks like a great way to quickly share available timeslots and schedule meetings.
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