Daily Reading List – March 6, 2024 (#272)

Do you plan on going to many in-person tech events this year? If so, are you looking at local events or actually getting on a plane to go somewhere? It seems like folks are traveling more, but training budgets continue be tight across the industry. Even if you can’t go anywhere right now, I’ll try to bring the learning to you with these reading lists!

[blog] Shifting Security Down Early. I didn’t just read and share this because it references my “shift down” metaphor. Doesn’t hurt, though. Aron offers up a good take on security in the dev lifecycle.

[article] When New Hires Get Paid More, Top Performers Resign First. Interesting findings. If you level up existing staff salaries when new (highly paid) folks join, people stay. When you don’t, the high performers disproportionally leave.

[blog] Running AI on fully managed GKE, now with new compute options, pricing and resource reservations. It seems like nothing in the world is getting cheaper, especially anything associated with AI. So hey, let’s rejoice that GPU workloads in Kubernetes are cheaper than before.

[article] Legacy tech is still popping up as a cost-control barrier. Short piece, but a reminder that you can’t put off modernization for long and expect to keep successfully shoving new tech into your architecture.

[blog] Reverse engineering prompts. This post brought me joy. I’ve never thought of asking an LLM for a prompt that would generate the output I want. I tried with Duet AI and got it to give me a really good prompt for an existing block of Go code. Love that idea as a way to learn good prompting.

[blog] Secure by Design: Google’s Perspective on Memory Safety. You may be like us and moving towards memory-safe languages, but also in possession of piles of C or C++ code. Here’s what we’re considering.

[blog] Improving Shopify App’s Performance. What’s the worst feedback you can hear about a distributed or complex app? “Feels slow.” Where do you even START? Shopify wanted to improve the performance of their app, and tackled three different performance bottlenecks.

[article] Exploring the API of Google’s Gemini Language Model. Learn about the types of API parameters you find in LLMs like Gemini.

[blog] “Bad” Strategy. Why? Have you said to yourself “my company has no real strategy”? COME ON SUITS UPSTAIRS, FIGURE IT OUT. But we don’t always see the whole picture, as John talks about here.

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