Back to my regularly scheduled content consumption today after yesterday’s Gemini-fest. There’s a good chance you’re going to want to click through each one of these!
[article] How Much Do Companies Invest in Developer Productivity Teams? How big is your central dev productivity team? They seem to get smaller (as a percentage) as the number of engineers increases. This post also looks at what these teams actually do.
[article] 7 Best Practices for Developers Getting Started with GenAI. There are so many ways you might use generative AI as a dev, and there’s no one single learning journey. But this represents a good set of things to consider.
[blog] It’s time for developers and enterprises to build with Gemini Pro. This post shows you the many ways to get started with Gemini.
[article] 12 Software Architecture Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them. Architecture matters a ton nowadays, even as we ship faster and with more local software team empowerment. This offers some useful advice.
[blog] Self-Publishing as Technical Marketing. Many of you have thoughts and ideas that belong in a book. It’s never been easier to self-publish, as Adam explains here.
[blog] What’s Going On With Language Rankings? I enjoy the programming rankings that Redmonk does twice a year. It looks like generative AI tools, and developers’ changing relationship with Q&A sites, are messing with the results.
[blog] Benchmarking Spanner’s price-performance for key-value workloads. There’s an industry standard database benchmark for key-value workloads, and we showed how well Cloud Spanner performs.
[article] 8 Essential Qualities of Successful Leaders. This looks like a good list of traits to work towards.
[article] Clever code is probably the worst code you could write. I’m glad generative AI can explain other people’s clever code so that I don’t feel so dumb, but please, write clear code in the first place.
[blog] Different is better than better. I’ve seen this point made before, and it’s a valuable one.
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