Daily Reading List – January 4, 2024 (#232)

I had a good day getting some items completed, while also learning and writing a bit. Many of the pieces below are useful for those thinking through 2024 strategies.

[article] Observability in 2024: More OpenTelemetry, Less Confusion. “Observability” is a noisy space, and every monitoring vendor now calls themselves an observability vendor. But that doesn’t mean that there’s not a lot of important work in this area.

[article] Employees turn to generative AI for research, data analysis as 2024 kicks off. Breaking news! People are using generative AI at work. That’s not surprisingly anymore; but the depth of usage soon will be.

[blog] Choosing between Cloud Run and GKE. Here’s a short post for those deciding between the two primary container-based runtimes in Google Cloud. For me, if you have a lot of code/components and want the Kubernetes API, choose GKE Autopilot. If you have glue apps or standalone apps, pick Cloud Run.

[article] Legacy Seam. This post from Martin Fowler looks at finding seams in your legacy code base and changing behavior without editing source code.

[blog] Coding at Google. Eric was at Microsoft, then Google, now back at Microsoft, but he offers up a terrific look at the platforms and processes we give to our devs so they can do their best work.

[article] Software supply chain security remains a challenge for most enterprises. Are you part of the 12% who are successful at remediating vulnerabilities in your company? Or are you struggling like most everyone else?

[blog] Providing Backup and Disaster Recovery as a Service. Good details from the engineering team at Flipkart.

[blog] Building Pinterest’s new wide column database using RocksDB. You shouldn’t go around building databases very often, but it makes sense for certain folks. Here’s what Pinterest did.

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