Daily Reading List – November 28, 2023 (#212)

Happy Tuesday! It’s re:Invent week, so many eyes are on what our friends at AWS are up to. You can read about what they announced, chuckle over the cheap shots, and enjoy our fun with them. And then get into some very interesting reads below.

[blog] Bait & Switch. The zero-interest-rate phenomenon led to some unsustainably low prices. And then we’re all surprised when prices go up. This is a reminder for product builders.

[blog] Using Ollama with LangChainGo. We’ve seen LangChain ports for Java, and now Go. And here’s how to do some local LLM testing.

[article] AI hype isn’t helping anyone. The hype is legit—also see this post today on its “unprecedented” pace of adoption. Don’t think for a moment that this is a fad. But without confidence in security, as Matt points out here, much of the promise will be unrealized.

[article] The Roots of Today’s Modern Backend Engineering Practices. There’s some good tech history in this post.

[blog] Barriers to Flow. This is an important post to skim through. What do developers say takes them out of a flow state? How many of these do you think you’re fixing by buying new tools?

[blog] Patterns of Distributed Systems. Plenty of folks prefer to learn through blog posts and videos, but many of us still enjoy a long-form book that really digs into a topic. I might be adding this one to the shelf.

[blog] Can AI Code Assistants Really Teach Junior Developers to Code? Ask a Redditor. For new developers, is AI an expert pair programmer, or a really good study partner? Kate’s investigation concludes that it’s more of the latter.

[blog] Why OpenTelemetry Is the Next Big Thing in API Monitoring. This popular CNCF project has good support among vendor products. Learn more about why it matters.

[blog] Women in ML Symposium 2023: Meet the presenters. There are tons of amazing women in our industry, and this looks like a terrific forum to learn from some experts.

[article] InfoQ Java Trends Report – November 2023. What do Java experts see as the core adoption trends in the Java space? Here’s a good look.

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