This is likely the last full work week of the year for many of us, so let’s make it count! Fortunately, there’s still a ton of people publishing great new content before the year is over. Check it out below.
[blog] A deep dive into CPU requests and limits in Kubernetes. You don’t have to know ALL this to properly set Kubernetes CPU requests and limits, but it’s definitely useful to understand the implications of these workload properties.
[article] Measuring Developer Flow and Friction. There’s a new paper out and Abi reviewed it to learn how Google develops metrics to measure flow and friction.
[blog] Re-founding, reInventing and the Future of AWS. Here’s some more good post-reinvent analysis, this time from Steve and Redmonk.
[article] GitHub is putting AI front and center. Developers are wary. Well-run businesses can do multiple things at once. As long as GitHub keeps their focus on the their core job (and treats AI as an enabler), devs will be fine.
[blog] NotebookLM adds more than a dozen new features. How do you take notes at work, or at home? If you plan to do more/better, NotebookLM might be a good addition to your stack.
[article] Memorializing Munger. Bob offers his take on a few important observations from the late Charlie Munger.
[blog] How Pinecone leverages Spanner’s familiar PostgreSQL to power its vector database. Lots of folks are using Pinecone as a vector database, and might not have realized their using Cloud Spanner too!
[article] When Designing Employee Learning Programs, Less Is More. Are you rushing through a bunch of mandatory training courses before the year is up? This article explains how companies can do a better job building these corporate learning programs.
[blog] Cloud Workstations for the “Bleeding Edge” Developer. Google Cloud Workstations support custom images, and Aaron shows off how you might create one. And another for web devs.
[blog] Here’s to an epic 25 years: Exploring the most searched trends of all time. Fun post and video that shows us what we’ve all been searching for. Also, the post about 2023 itself.
[article] Virtual Panel: Communications from a Leader’s Perspective. Here’s a discussion with leaders and coaches about tools, approaches, and desired outcomes for communication within teams.
[article] 30 Pull Requests Later, Prometheus Memory Use Is Cut in Half. Here’s a good story of a maintainer attacking bloat and making Prometheus more efficient.
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