Back at work after two bonkers days with a hundred fourth grade kids and their parents. Work today was more chill than the school field trip, and that’s saying something. Some light reading, but still good ones!
[article] Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans. This article will get more added to it, but even the start is good. It offers a useful perspective on qualitative metrics and using that data to make better decisions.
[blog] Bring Back Fun. Seriously. “Fun” doesn’t have to mean silly or lazy. But there should be more joy in our work as we get to build or support amazing things in tech.
[blog] How to fail at platform engineering. This feels like an important post to internalize, as I worry that many folks will go about over-engineering their platforms in 2024.
[article] The Benefits of Innovation That Isn’t Disruptive. It can be exciting to target the core of an existing industry with a disruptive solution, but there are risks as called out here.
[article] Cloud Migrations Pick up the Pace in 2024. People are moving to cloud faster, while still facing challenges teasing apart app dependencies.
[article] Meet DBOS: A Database Alternative to Kubernetes. Interesting idea. Run operating system services atop a distributed database?
[blog] More powerful Go execution traces. If you’re troubleshooting an app, having access to trace data is super helpful. But tracing can also be resource intensive and tough to scale. The Go team made some excellent updates to tracing in the standard library.
[blog] Maximize your cloud potential at Next ‘24: Lead with learning at any skill level. You can learn from anywhere, but there’s something powerful about intentionally going somewhere with intent to learn. Try and give yourself that gift this year by finding a conference that helps you grow professionally.
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