Daily Reading List – April 26, 2024 (#306)

Today was a quick day, and I took a detour in the middle to accompany my son on his quest to earn his driver’s license. For better or worse, he passed. Buckle up out there.

[article] Take Two: Eight Hard-Earned Lessons from Repeat Founders on Starting Over Again. Doing something once is awesome. Doing it again? That’s a whole other thing. I liked this article with lessons from repeat founders.

[article] How Burnout Became Normal — and How to Push Back Against It. These are good techniques for resisting burnout and creating an environment with a reasonable amount of stress.

[blog] 2024 DORA survey now live: share your thoughts on AI, DevEx, and platform engineering. Get involved in this year’s survey and become part of the industry’s largest body of research into software delivery performance.

[blog] OK Cloud, On-Prem is Alright. I don’t really believe “private cloud” is a real thing—nine times out of ten, it’s a nicely automated VM or container environment—but Ian offers up a thoughtful exploration of the hybrid future of most big companies.

[blog] isBooleanTooLongAndComplex. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this talked about, or thought about it much. Probably because I’m a subpar developer. It’s a short post, but give it a read.

[blog] Building DoorDash’s Product Knowledge Graph with Large Language Models. The engineering team at DoorDash wanted to automate a process, and avoid the cold start of a self-trained model, so they built out an LLM-based solution.

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