Daily Reading List – October 23, 2023 (#188)

Happy Monday. I had an enjoyable weekend, including a couple of bike rides with my daughter. Now I’m sore, but she’s happy, so that’s all that matters. For today’s reading list, you’ll get some AI, some developer categorization, and an intro to “slowification.”

[article] Why vector databases are the engine of the AI era. Read this for a good summary of the reason vector databases are hot, and why they matter.

[blog] Rearchitecture is a sign of success not failure. Short post, good reminder. If you have to rearchitect a system, manage tech debt, or run a legacy system, that’s indicative of something that produced value.

[article] Available, Affordable, Attractive: Enabling Platform Adoption. Video and transcript of a talk about making platforms devs want to use.

[blog] Characterizing Software Developers by Perceptions of Productivity. Interesting recap of a paper, and Abi calls out the six types of developer profiles that emerged.

[blog] Data Duets with BigQuery and Gen AI. Getting help writing or understanding SQL queries is useful, right? This post shows that capability in BigQuery and Colab.

[article] Primer: Cloud Development Environments, or CDEs. If you’re not using these now, I suspect you’ll put an entry into your 2024 plan to explore them further. Worthwhile investigation.

[article] What Fast-Moving Companies Do Differently. The learn faster and act faster. Seems you need both to actually be a disruptive force.

[article] The Curious Story Behind The Word “Slowification” from Wiring The Winning Organization. And sometimes you slow down on purpose, so that you can go faster later. Read this latest from Gene Kim.

[article] An incident management lens on DORA 2023. The latest State of DevOps Report is rich with insight, and this article takes a closer look at the findings around reliability and incident management.

[blog] GKE Stateful High Availability (HA) Controller now in public preview. Plenty of folks are running stateful workloads on Kubernetes, but there’s a real cost to achieving legit high availability. I like this new option which gives you good resilience, without over-architecting.

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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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