Not to get all “back in MY day” on you, but everyone’s looking at their phones too much. Waiting in line anywhere? Pull out your phone. Riding an elevator? Phone comes out. Sitting in the boarding area at the airport? Head down. I’m trying to make a point of being more present while embracing momentary boredom versus reflexively getting lost in a device.
[article] 10 Ways to Prove You’re a Strategic Thinker. This is more than just “thought-leadering” on LinkedIn. Strategic thinkers are great listeners, focus on simplification, and study the big picture.
[blog] Reshaping Flipkart’s technological landscape with a mammoth cloud migration. Moving from well-established infrastructure in one place to another is no small feat. It has to be worth it, and it’s never easy. Here’s Flipkart’s journey and why they did it.
[blog] Predictions 2024: Software Development Adapts To TuringBots, Ajar Source, And Backstage. What’s 2024 hold? Forrester Research called out a few major guesses.
[blog] Key considerations for evaluating AI-powered tools for enterprise developers. Many folks are experimenting with AI-assisted dev tools, and some are making big bets. These are some things to think about.
[article] The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices. Long piece, but good thinking on how to consider the right architecture for your systems, and teams.
[blog] GKE: The new home for your batch platform. You’re running batch workloads somewhere. It might be VMs or bare metal servers. Maybe a serverless stack or specialized batch runtime. Kubernetes has become a solid option itself.
[blog] 6 Management Styles Every Successful Leader Understands and 1 They Avoid. This article puts a name on the various management styles, and when you might use each.
[blog] Artifact Registry remote and virtual repositories are now generally available. Software supply chain security is hopefully on your agenda for next year, if it’s not already. Look for services like this that offer a secure way to proxy packages.
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