Daily Reading List – January 12, 2024 (#238)

Did you have an interesting week? I hope you learned a few things and met someone new. I’m off to London tomorrow for a week of work stuff, but will continue publishing this reading list while I’m there. It’s just possible I mix in some “bloody hell” mentions while complaining about lorries and loos.

[article] Celebrating 20+ Years of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and EIP. These are classic books that still apply today. Here’s a look at their impact, with input from the authors.

[blog] Cloud Deploy gains support for custom target types. I really like the ability to use a single continuous deployment engine to along with a variety of “targets” like an MLOps platform or GitOps-style rollout.

[article] A Simple Hack to Help You Communicate More Effectively. Are you a good communicator when put on the spot? This article has a good framework to use for spontaneous or planned communication.

[blog] Deploying Go API on GKE | Google Cloud. I like this end to end walkthrough that covers account setup, Kubernetes cluster setup, and database configuration.

[article] You probably have too many SaaS apps. Seems accurate. There are lots of specialized products which are great, but there must be room to consolidate to fewer, good-enough products.

[blog] Announcing Humboldt, the first cable route between South America and Asia-Pacific. Satellites are awesome, but much of the internet traffic goes under the sea.

[article] Snyk’s AI Code Security Report Reveals Software Developers’ False Sense of Security. Even though the AI-generated code may (or may not) be high quality, it doesn’t mean you skip important steps around code scanning!

[blog] Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices. Here’s a deep dive into Netflix’s work to take a mature product and rebuild it as microservices.

[blog] How Deutsche Bank achieved high availability and scalability with Spanner. Powerful cloud-native databases are just for funky Vally startups, right? Nah. All sorts of companies benefit from low-maintenance, elastic database engines.

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