Daily Reading List – November 3, 2023 (#197)

Back home this afternoon, and a light reading day. Still some good items on productivity, security, and making good tech choices.

[article] Developer Productivity Engineering at Netflix. Sure, you’re not Netflix or Google or whomever. But we’re also not you. Everyone has something unique going on. We can learn from each other, and this article has things we can learn from Netflix.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: It’s a multicloud jungle out there. Here’s how your security can survive — and thrive. There’s a pragmatic take on multicloud in this blog post that I haven’t heard very often.

[article] From Monorepo Mess to Monorepo Bliss: Avoiding Common Mistakes. Some folks love monorepos, some hate the idea. But if you see the value and want to do it well, this talk will help you.

[blog] Terraform As A Service: Google Infrastructure Manager. It’s not hard to make the case that Terraform is the actual multicloud API. It’s the universal IaaS language!

[article] Building a Q&A app with LangChain and Google PaLM 2. This is a good walkthrough for those trying to understand the sequence of activities for building generative AI apps, and applies even if you’re not using our PaLM 2 model.

[blog] The importance of “no.” Last week, Brian said you should say “yes” a lot, and now’s tell me to say “no.” I don’t know what to believe anymore.

[article] Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP. Unique assessment from Gergely that shows where each hyperscaler can improve.

[blog] A decade of Kubernetes leadership: why Google Cloud should be your choice for Kubernetes. After reading this post, I’d have a hard time picking any other place for my Kubernetes workloads.

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