Happy Monday! This looks like it’ll be my first 5-day workweek in a while. You too? I cleared out some of my reading queue today, and saw lots of great material. Jump in.
[blog] Product Managing to Prevent Burnout. To me, a great product manager is one who protects their team. They keep engineers focused on priorities and out of useless meetings, and encourages sustainable pace. This article does a great job explaining this.
[article] A Guide for Getting Stakeholder Buy-In for Your Agenda. Most of us eventually learn that a great idea won’t matter if you can’t get people to buy into it. This article has a good framework to think through if you want to advance our ideas within your company.
[article] How the GenAI Revolution Reminds Us of 1990s Computing. Is there nothing new under the sun? Janakiram see parallels between the current generative AI era and the 1990s computing era.
[blog] Our move to generated SDKs. GitHub is moving towards software-generated SDKs with the goal of more structured and regularly-updated bits. .NET and Go are the first two languages supported.
[blog] Google Cloud Vertex AI and dotnet : HCIH App. Speaking of .NET, this post shows how an ASP.NET website can call generative AI services and get hosted in Cloud Run.
[blog] Advice on using LLMs wisely. My former colleague is a great follow on LinkedIn and has shared some smart perspectives on generative AI over the past few months.
[blog] Free technical writing courses. Are you an engineer who wants to be a better technical writer? These upcoming courses from Google are free to take.
[blog] Go 1.22: Interactive release notes. Not only do you learn about new features in this post, but you can try them inline without leaving the page. Very cool.
[blog] 22 reasons to ditch Azure DevOps and switch to GitHub as soon as possible. I’ve been unclear on whether these would stay separate products or what, but Dennis encourages people to go to the more complete GitHub experience.
[blog] Engineering Transformations – Adopting Automated Testing As A Practice. Generative AI can help you slap more tests into your codebase, but that doesn’t magically give you a good testing culture. This post looks at why automated tests matter, failure modes, and strategies for success.
[blog] Event Streaming: Tips for Event-Driven Apps. The engineering team at Capital One explains what event streaming is all about and how you can do it too.
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