Daily Reading List – December 20, 2023 (#228)

Light reading day as I wrapped up work meetings, wrote a blog post, and spent some time building a generative AI app, using AI-assisted tooling. Fun stuff.

[blog] If software development were a race, AI wins every time. Good post that looks at a study this firm conducted, and where generative AI assistance helped developers.

[blog] All Architects Must Deliver Business Outcomes. Do we segment “architects” too finely at times? Probably. Every architect should be a “business architect” if that means delivering something the organization as a whole cares about.

[blog] Future of the Cloud: 10 Trends Shaping 2024 and Beyond. I don’t think anything here will surprise you, but the Pulumi folks pointed out some valid things to pay attention to.

[blog] Introducing automated credential discovery to help secure your cloud environment. I’ve certainly built demos where I temporarily used environment variables (or hard coded variables!) to store secrets. This new Google Cloud tool helps find and notify you when that happens.

[blog] Inference Race To The Bottom – Make It Up On Volume? Lots of folks are delivering quality LLMs, which means price pressure.

[blog] CNCF Cloud Native FinOps + Cloud Financial Management Microsurvey. People spend a lot of their cloud budget on Kubernetes. Why? Human factors like over provisioning, lack of accountability, and poor planning. Use fully managed Kubernetes wherever possible.

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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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