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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Author: Richard Seroter

Richard Seroter is currently the Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud and leads the Developer Relations program. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former InfoQ.com editor plus former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. As Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud, Richard leads the team of developer advocates, developer engineers, outbound product managers, and technical writers who ensure that people find, use, and enjoy Google Cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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