Daily Reading List – March 27, 2024 (#285)

Up to Sunnyvale again today, this time for a Cloud Next ’24 rehearsal session tomorrow. Just a couple weeks until the event. We’ve got a couple tickets left to purchase, so get on that!

[blog] 12 Documentation Examples Every Developer Tool Can Learn From. I’m learning how tricky it is to get documentation “right.” There are so many different audiences, learning goals, and ways to explain a product. This post looks at who does docs well.

[blog] A review of zero-day in-the-wild exploits in 2023. This summarizes and links to a free paper that explains how attacks are shifting, and how you can better protect yourself. More here.

[blog] Stack Exchange Expands Beyond Q&A Format with ‘Discussions’. Important experiment for Stack Overflow, and it should help keep folks engaged on the site.

[blog] Setting Up Kafka Multi-Tenancy. Here’s how DoorDash does “testing in production” with a multi-tenant architecture that includes their messaging system.

[article] Google Vertex AI Studio puts the promise in generative AI. Here’s a thorough review of our AI app building platform and what’s included.

[blog] Announcing DBRX: A new standard for efficient open source LLMs. Congrats to our friends at Databricks on delivering a new open model that looks like it has great performance. Some spicy media coverage here.

[blog] Is Your Container Image Really Distroless? Are you using a distroless image, or wondering what that means? This Docker post explains.

[blog] How to choose a known, trusted supplier for open source software. Other hot trends have drowned out secure software supply chain as a topic, but it’s more important than ever.

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