Daily Reading List – October 4, 2023 (#175)

Another wild and wacky day, but who wants work to be boring? Not this guy. Maybe slightly more boring. Check out some of the items I read today that were focused on leadership and architecture. Some good ones in there!

[blog] Should You Care About Developer Productivity? Terrific post from the Forrester Research team that calls out what devs do besides coding, and how to better support them.

[article] What Makes an Inclusive Leader? There’s some useful, actionable info here for those that want to build environments where people thrive.

[blog] 4 Great Ways to Get Docs Feedback From Developers. Whether you’re serving internal or external devs, docs matter a ton. Here’s how to get better feedback from your users.

[blog] Five generative AI use cases for the financial services industry. If you trust a generative AI model—that’s a big *if*—there are many exciting ways it can help you do your job. I like the examples here.

[article] Confluent Wants to Make Batch Processing a Thing of the Past. Batch processing isn’t going anywhere, but it’s great to see data streaming get easier and easier. Related.

[article] Managing 238 Million Memberships of Netflix: Surabhi Diwan at QCon San Francisco. Lots of good details in this summary of a recent conference talk.

[blog] Make with MakerSuite Part 2: Tuning LLMs. Fairly short post, because fine-tuning an LLM for a generative AI app isn’t THAT complicated using this tool.

[blog] GKE Network Planning (2023). Great look at the three places you assign IPs in a Kubernetes architecture, and how to plan for each.

[blog] Test-Driven Development with AI: The Right Way to Code Using Generative AI. Be careful having generative AI write your unit tests, as it may helpfully test it assuming your bugs are features. It’s still a good idea to write the tests yourself, first.

[blog] Cloud Spanner — Table Interleaving use cases. What are the implications of physically co-locating child records with parent records in a Spanner database table? This post takes a look.

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