I’m off to India tomorrow for a week of meeting with team members, customers, and developers. Depending on airplane wifi, I may or may not be publishing a reading list. Next week, I’ll plan on publishing each day!
[blog] Deploying Kafka Cluster on GKE with Kraft Mode (without Zookeeper). This is easier than I remembered. Here’s a good walkthrough of setting up a modern Kafka cluster on Kubernetes.
[blog] Behind the Scenes: Crafting an Autoscaler for Apache Beam in a High-Volume Streaming Environment. Lots of details in this post by the Palo Alto Networks crew. Even if you use other tech for data stream processing, there’s something to learn here.
[blog] Opinionated Istio Feature Recommendations. Brutal honesty. I love it! From an Istio maintainer comes this look at what you should use, and what you should avoid.
[blog] Go 1.22 is released! There are some nice little updates in this release. Worth checking out yourself.
[blog] Google AlloyDB is getting Public IP. It’s convenient to slap a public IP on your database, but not always the best idea. Gleb has details here on the how, and when.
[blog] Remix Takes on Next.js in Battle of the React Frameworks. I’m not sure you should fall in love with any particular JavaScript framework. There’s enough churn and new entrants to make migration inevitable!
[article] The Building Blocks of LLMs: Vectors, Tokens and Embeddings. Most won’t need this knowledge, but many of us should at least have some familiarity with the concepts.
[blog] Start your cloud networking journey today. This post is summarizes a new set of hands-on learning opportunities for people who want to get into cloud networking.
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