Daily Reading List – November 10, 2023 (#202)

Happy Friday. My weekend will be spent watching my daughter perform four times as the lead in a local production of “Matilda: The Musical” and I’m more nervous than she is. Enjoy today’s links!

[blog] Manager Toolkit: Useful Manager Phrases for 1:1s. Some good thinking from my colleague Aja. If you’re a manager, what questions are you asking in your 1:1 meetings?

[blog] Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023. Lots of data in this latest report. Plenty on AI (not shocking given that’s almost entirely what GitHub talks about now!), but also insights into global developer communities and popular tech.

[article] Cloud workload repatriation will only deliver results if CIOs pivot to a hybrid-first strategy. I don’t know. Hybrid cloud champions sometimes strike me as the people who encourage you to sign a prenup. Can’t commit. Counterpoint.

[docs] Modern CI/CD with GKE: A software delivery framework. This is a tremendous resource for those who run and use Kubernetes. Get detailed guidance on a GitOps-style approach to platform, security, and developer workflows.

[article] Survey Surfaces Software Supply Chain Security Challenges. The drumbeat gets louder and louder for paying attention to your software supply chain.

[article] Tim Hockin: Kubernetes Needs a Complexity Budget. I like that the maintainers of this project are trying to be more thoughtful about injecting new complexity into Kubernetes.

[blog] Introducing Cloud SQL in-place upgrade: move from Enterprise to Enterprise Plus with ease. You and I can provision whatever we want in the cloud fairly easily. But upgrading to different tiers of service often requires starting over. In this case, we’re supporting in-place upgrades to a better class of service.

[article] Application Modernization: A Catalyst for Fixing Sub-Optimal UX. Do you justify modernization programs by explaining how you’ll fix the UX? I haven’t seen much of that. Maybe we should.

[blog] Fourteen Years of Go. Happy birthday Go! Lots has improved in this powerful programming language, and more good things are on the way.

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