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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Author: Richard Seroter

Richard Seroter is currently the Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud and leads the Developer Relations program. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former InfoQ.com editor plus former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. As Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud, Richard leads the team of developer advocates, developer engineers, outbound product managers, and technical writers who ensure that people find, use, and enjoy Google Cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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