Daily Reading List – October 18, 2023 (#185)

I was in an all-day meeting today, and again found myself grateful to work with so many bright folks. Long day though, and closing it out by reading a couple more interesting items. Enjoy!

[article] What Is OpenTelemetry? This is an important project to keep an eye on. I’m seeing more vendor support pop up. Note this related post from Elastic about best practices when instrumenting OpenTelemetry.

[blog] Does Your Startup Need a Sales Playbook or Just a Few Plays? Maybe you haven’t been in a sales or sales-related role before, but it’s useful to understand the idea of a playbook.

[blog] Understanding Direct VPC Egress for Cloud Run. This post has a good test of the new connectivity option for serverless apps that access VPC resources.

[article] Do You Manage Too Many People? I’ve definitely made mistakes in this department, and now work to have a more reasonable number of direct reports.

[article] How to use Google’s PaLM 2 API with LangChain. It’s getting easier and easier to try out LLMs and see them in action. This is a very digestible example.

[article] C# Overtaking Java in Popularity Index. There are lots of factors here, including the split JVM attention due to Kotlin, as well as C# being a good language with an open ecosystem.

[blog] Breaking data silos with BigQuery Omni cross-cloud joins. Very powerful functionality, demonstrated well here.

[blog] Automating product deprecation. You’ll find some good details in this new post from Meta/Facebook about how they scope deprecations.

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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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