Daily Reading List – December 4, 2023 (#216)

In theory, December should be a month where we’re winding down before the holidays. We’ll see. Right now, the industry seems hot, and work is still at full speed. Same for you?

[article] A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed. There could be some innocent backstory to this, but I dunno. This looks like a solid investigation.

[blog] Deploy and manage Kubernetes applications with Workflows. There’s no shortage of ways to deploy workloads to Kubernetes. Might you want to do it from a stateful workflow engine? Here’s how you’d do it.

[article] A Better Way to Measure Customers’ Willingness to Pay. I’ve been doing some pricing exercises lately, so this caught my eye.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: How security validations can help organizations stay secure. I read this and think that maybe “trust but verify” is too simple and outdated as an approach for enabling software teams. It’s more like “offer platforms that apply policies and continuous validation.”

[blog] Unsupervised speech-to-speech translation from monolingual data. Translating spoken language from one to another has so many practical uses. It looks like the tech is getting better.

[article] Cloud Migration and Platform Engineering at Large Organizations. Here’s a very good look at platform engineering, measurements, and what the point is.

[blog] 12 days of no-cost training to learn generative AI this December. There’s no shortage of training out there. Paid, free, whatever. At some point, it’s really about which sources you trust most!

[blog] Evaluating Product Managers. Jeff offers a thorough model for assessing PMs. This is a useful checklist for those entering the field or looking to grow.

[blog] Cloud Run: The Spring Boot rebirth with GraalVM native compilation. Should Java be an easier option for serverless functions? Maybe native images will make that so.

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Author: Richard Seroter

Richard Seroter is currently the Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud and leads the Developer Relations program. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former InfoQ.com editor plus former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. As Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud, Richard leads the team of developer advocates, developer engineers, outbound product managers, and technical writers who ensure that people find, use, and enjoy Google Cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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