It was delightful to see Alphabet have a strong quarter, and Google Cloud firmly establishing itself as a successful and growing platform. For today’s reading list, many of the items are about tech-agnostic best practices.
[blog] AI will break the stagnation in developer productivity, but only if you do it right. This is by me. I wrote up a post that relates to the recent whitepaper I published.
[blog] The CD Foundation Survey, 2024. I referenced this report last week, but Coté does a terrific deep dive into this confusing report. Specifically, why are automated build and testing not widely adopted?
[blog] How Does Angular Compare to Vue? Deep dive comparison here, with code samples and explanations of differences between these web frameworks.
[blog] Google Cloud Next Recap from a GenAI and Databases Perspective. Monster recap with lots of pictures and video embeds.
[article] Low-Code Generative AI: New Solution Makes AI Easier to Create. It’s reasonable for low-code vendors to get into AI agent building. I’m seeing a lot of open source and vendor-provided tools in this space.
[blog] On IBM acquiring HashiCorp. Great analysis from Fintan who may not officially be an industry analyst anymore, but his insights are always spot on.
[blog] Modernization vs. migration for data workloads. Here’s a look at how to decide between these two strategies, with a helpful visual that outlines some decision criteria.
[blog] Tokens for LLMs: Byte Pair Encoding in Go. This is maybe more than you wanted to know about token encoding, but I found it interesting.
[article] The Myths and Realities of Being a Product Manager. I liked this look at what it takes to be a PM and some misunderstandings about the role.
[article] How Technology Can Drive Culture Change in Software Organisations. Cultures form around the technologies available to them, and sometimes you can force a culture change by upgrading technology.
[blog] Vertical Slice Architecture Myths You Need To Know! I’m a fan of this pattern (versus a layered approach) and Derek explains some of the myths that might have deterred you from adopting it.
[blog] How can teams resolve video meeting fatigue? Most of you are probably like me and spend a big portion of your week on video calls. This post looks at research around mitigating fatigue.
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