Daily Reading List – December 7, 2023 (#219)

I spent some time in a virtual offsite yesterday and today and it was productive. But I much prefer the in-person option, as it’s hard for me to keep up energy and attention on screen for hours on end. How about you?

[blog] Alternatives To Product Leaders. Marty calls out the alternatives, none of them great. If you’re a product company, finding strong product leadership matters more than anything else.

[article] McDonald’s and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Partnership to Connect Latest Cloud Technology and Apply Generative AI Solutions Across its Restaurants Worldwide. That’s a long title. But I’m excited about this story. Our industry has learned a lot about restaurants deploying infrastructure at scale, and it’ll be cool to see how this one plays out. More here.

[article] 3 Traps to Avoid When Executing Your Strategy. Too many folks involved, activity instead of action, and no accountability. These are the traps. Read this for the ways to escape.

[article] The Value of Repaying Good Technical Debt. Do we get used to tech debt and see it as a problem anymore? I think that’s a fresh take, versus blaming the unknown “them” who keeps you from improving your systems.

[blog] Dynamic Workload Scheduler: Optimizing resource access and economics for AI/ML workloads. Giving your workloads access to GPUs and TPUs is going to be a must-have capability fairly soon. This looks interesting.

[blog] Kotlin for WebAssembly Goes Alpha. Kotlin continues to be a viable option for developers on the JVM. Now, with Wasm support.

[blog] Google is a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. This has been a fairly stable Quadrant for a while (welcome, Oracle, to the Leaders group) with Google uniquely moving both up and to the right again. We’re also doing good stuff with streaming data platforms.

[blog] Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0. Good level of detail in this post, and it may inform your own database upgrade strategy.

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