Daily Reading List – April 3, 2024 (#290)

As you read through today’s list, you’ll find advice on which tech you should explore (or skip), how to think about supply chain security, and get some ideas on AI patterns.

[site] Thoughtworks Technology Radar: Volume 30. This is always one of my favorite tech assessments to read. It’s worth your time to see what hot (and not) in techniques, platforms, tools, and programming languages. Blog post on the trends in this report.

[article] GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack. That’s scary. Be extra diligent when visiting repos to ensure you’re using the “real” ones.

[blog] Thoughts on “Modular Monoliths.” Jeremy is rightfully skeptical of whether a modular monolith is the same mess with a fancier name.

[blog] Applying Large Language Models to DoD Software Acquisition: An Initial Experiment. Can you use LLMs to make the request for proposal/information process easier? Document summarization seems like a valid use case here.

[blog] Generative AI Design Patterns. I wouldn’t trust much labeled as “best practice” when it comes to generative AI. It’s too early. Instead, Lak is documenting gen AI patterns as they emerge.

[blog] OSV and helping developers fix known vulnerabilities. Add vulnerability scanning into your CI pipeline, and use this tool to remediate vulnerabilities in your code.

[article] CEOs, Is Your Business Strategy Bold Enough? It’s easy to say “be bolder” when you’re on the outside and don’t deal with the day-to-day challenges and conflict. That said, be bolder.

[blog] GKE Autopilot mode gets burstable workloads and smaller Pod sizes. Using GKE in Autopilot mode isn’t bold; it’s just smart. Now you can create burstable workloads and have tiny pods for more dense clusters.

[article] It’s Time for My Next Chapter. Job well done, Aaron, building Pluralsight into such a valuable and useful service for so many people.

[blog] Data Platform Explained. Here’s Spotify’s take on data platforms and how theirs has evolved.

[blog] What is TensorFlow? There are a few different machine learning frameworks that folks should be familiar with, and TensorFlow is one of them.

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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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