I spent half the day in a “summit” with other outbound product managers at Google. I’m planning on writing an update to my “what is outbound product management” post to share the things I’ve learned. In the meantime, I read a lot of great items today, and you’ll find them below.
[paper] Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications. I have a suspicion that we’ll look back at this paper (and 2023 as a whole) as a turning point in the discussion about microservices. Each of you should skim through this paper.
[site] Awesome Go. If you use Go or want to use it, this is a terrific list of the frameworks and software that might be part of your toolset.
[blog] Mastering Developer Relations: Metrics, KPIs, and Collaboration with Product Teams. There’s no single set of metrics that define a productive Developer Relations function; it’s usually based on what the business needs from the team. If you’re part of an overlay team—could be enterprise architecture, sales specialists, or field CTOs—this discussion matters.
[blog] How big is a Microservice in Serverless? Is a function a microservice? Nah. First-generation serverless platforms only offered functions as the compute abstraction. I like today’s options where a more complete “app” can sit in a container on a managed runtime. This post looks at topics like cohesion and coupling when considering your architecture.
[article] Vietnam’s game developers partner with Google Cloud to establish the country in the global games industry. The gaming industry is a good one to watch to observe early innovations. This story looks at how Vietnam’s devs are supporting global audiences by using cloud infrastructure.
[blog] Zero-shot adaptive prompting of large language models. The LLM space is like nothing I’ve seen before. The rate of learning and iterating and remarkable. Posts like this remind me that we’re still figuring out so many aspects of how to take advantage of this technology.
[blog] Integrating langchain4j and PaLM 2 Chat Bison Model. Here’s a really good example of writing a serverless function in Java that calls an LLM and gets back a response.
[blog] Announcing Minder and Trusty: Free-to-use tools to help developers and open source communities build safer software. The folks at Stacklok shipped a couple of tools that use the Sigstore project to help with your security posture and dependency management.
[blog] Introducing Synadia Cloud. Many folks use NATS as their messaging backbone, and now there’s a cloud backend to support it.
[blog] Golang’s GORM support for Cloud Spanner is now Generally Available. This popular ORM for Go apps now supports Cloud Spanner and its unique features.
[blog] What the Terraform Provider registry says on the cloud market share. There are ways to infer market share besides what each of us reports. One such way? Terraform downloads pointing to each cloud.
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