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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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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