Daily Reading List – December 8, 2023 (#220)

Happy Friday. By this point in the week, I’ve usually got the mental prowess of a potato. Enjoy the items below, and try and relax a bit this weekend!

[article] Product Development Heartbeat. What’s your event rhythm within your company that conveys progress, assists in planning, or communicates issues? This post shares one model.

[article] AI initiatives fall flat without training, tech pros say. Makes sense. While many of these AI tools are straightforward to use, we all can use training to understand how to unlock the main value.

[blog] Confluent placed as a ‘Niche Player’ in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools. This caught my eye because rarely (never?) do vendors celebrate anything but “leader” status in these analyst assessments. But this is Confluent’s first showing in this one, and they’re a real contender in this space.

[article] Top 5 AI Engineering Trends of 2023. Trends of 2023, but also likely trends for 2024 too. Read this for a take on where folks are spending time.

[article] How to Challenge Your Organization’s Status Quo — Productively. We say we want folks who challenge the status quo, but that’s easier said than done. It’s risky! This article has 10 steps to doing it successfully.

[youtube-video] Rust on Cloud Run. Lots of people are excited about Rust as a language. This video shows how it’s not very hard to deploy a Rust app to serverless Google Cloud Run.

[blog] The Predictability Trap. Is it your team’s goal to be predictable? It’s achievable, but you may not get what you were after.

[blog] Data-Driven Decisions with YugabyteDB with Google BigQuery. I like seeing good products combined together for interesting use cases.

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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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