Daily Reading List – May 1, 2024 (#309)

I had a very enlightening day of leadership meetings and am very bullish on the things Google Cloud is working on for customers. Energy level is high around here! I started my day with lots of reading, which you’ll find below.

[article] Retail banking turns to core modernization as cloud strategies mature. It’s time to finish some of those modernizations, people! These small, incremental approaches take too long, and it’s holding up future progress.

[blog] GCP Data Engineering Project: Streaming Data Pipeline with Pub/Sub and Apache Beam/Dataflow. Big post showing off a complete solution for aggregating messages in a streaming architecture.

[article] MongoDB aims to jumpstart AI app development with MAAP. More tools and professional services on the way to help folks build generative AI apps.

[blog] How Konfig provides an enterprise platform with GitLab and Google Cloud. I’d suspect that if you’re reading my post, you probably have a source control system in place. But if not, or if you need an upgrade, I like what Real Kinetic is doing to make it easier to set up an enterprise-grade deployment.

[article] AI still has a ways to go in code refactoring. Readability and maintainability matter as much (more than?) coding speed, and Matt points out the need to supervise what AI is generating.

[blog] Supercharged Developer Portals. Good for Spotify for commercializing their open source tech and making developer portals easier to set up and use.

[article] AI, Your Task: Create Autonomous Agents. Vik (with help from AI) wrote this piece about “foundation agents” that learn and adapt to their environments.

[article] Who Takes a Risk on New Technology? That new technology won’t take off if there aren’t people willing to make personal bets on it. This article starts with a story about directors in Hollywood, and connects it to technology adoption.

[article] Java 17 is most-used LTS version of Java – report. It’s very good to see that Java 8 is finally falling out favor with Java devs.

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