We’ve finished a week of promo reviews this week at Google. It causes my imposter syndrome to flare up, as I’m surrounded by people doing tremendous work and are more talented than I am. But, that’s a great motivator to keep learning and growing. There are a few pieces below that taught me new things today.
[article] Software Delivery Enablement, Not Developer Productivity. Don’t mistakenly get caught up in measuring individual devs; measure the effectiveness of the system itself, and the teams that depend on it.
[blog] A Secure Approach for deploying HashiCorp Vault on a Private GKE Cluster. Detailed walkthrough of running a popular secrets manager on a Kubernetes cluster.
[blog] Want Better and Faster Results? Increase Team Size and Reduce WIP. I really like the point that Johanna makes here. Large teams don’t HAVE To be slower. But they will, if you also increase work-in-progress and each person is doing their own thing.
[blog] Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches – Migrating Initial Business Logic. There’s a lot that goes into a real app modernization effort. This series of posts looks at how one might do it.
[blog] How CoreLogic modernized its application platform and saved costs in Google Cloud. Speaking of modernization, here’s how one company evolved their Cloud Foundry investment into native cloud strategy and saw good returns.
[blog] Announcing New Tools to Help Every Business Embrace Generative AI. Good to see our AWS friends start to ship! There’s some important updates here to their portfolio.
[blog] Google is a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. This is a mature space, but it’s still interesting to read the notable differences in “cautions” among the leading vendors. Click through to download a copy of the report.
[article] 10 JavaScript concepts every Node developer must master. There are some good fundamentals called out here.
[blog] Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech. There’s a difference, no doubt. I’ve done 3-ish startups, and a couple Big Tech places. Your experience doesn’t just depend on company size; it relates to your role, stage of career, and the specific company.
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