I had an eventful weekend, including spending a couple hours yesterday at a birthday party for a six-year old. I wasn’t by myself; that would be weird. But it was amusing to observe self-organized systems with my son and his friends as they figured out what trouble to cause.
[report] Platform Engineering Maturity Model. This is a terrific asset if you’re figuring out where to focus your time on building (or improving) your platform engineering function.
[article] Site Reliability Engineering and AI. If you’re experienced at SRE or brand new, there are places where AI will make a positive impact. This post calls out some examples.
[blog] Zero-downtime scaling with Memorystore for Redis Cluster: under the hood. Scaling open source Redis clusters can lead to issues with resilience, availability, and more. Our latest managed Redis service takes care of those issues.
[blog] The Story of Gateway API. Are you a little curious about how big, mature open source projects introduce major new capabilities? This post offers a look at this important new Kubernetes API and how it came to be.
[article] How AI and Automation Can Improve Operational Resiliency. Watch this video (or read the summary) to absorb some key points around looking at the entire value chain.
[docs] Google Cloud deployment archetypes. Really good, regardless of which cloud you use. This offers six deployment archetypes and the design considerations for each.
[article] Do Gen AI and OSS Regulation Bring Us Further Away From Exiting the Dependency Hell? Stark findings pointed out in this article. Many apps contain many dependencies, and teams are struggling to keep vulnerabilities out.
[article] Meta reveals their serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day. There are lots of details in this review of a paper about Meta’s platform. Cool look at their goals and architecture.
[blog] Announcing Grok. Worth paying attention to this new model from the X crew. More in this news story.
[blog] Announcing Angular.dev. I can’t seem to get psyched up enough to really learn front-end web frameworks. But Angular keeps getting better, and the new website’s embedded tutorials are a low-friction way to experiment. Very nice.
[article] ChatGPT continues to be one of the fastest-growing services ever. Kudos to the OpenAI team for continuing to push into new and exciting areas. They announced plenty of cool things today, and I thought the GPTs item was particularly interesting.
[blog] Synthetic Monitoring in Cloud Monitoring is now Generally Available. We know that “my component is up” doesn’t mean the user experience is working right. I like outside-in tests that simulate user flows and ensure that the service itself is operating correctly.
[blog] You Keep Using That Word. That word is “edge” and it doesn’t seem to mean the same thing to any two people.
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