Daily Reading List – May 8, 2024 (#314)

Weirdly, many of the things I read today seemed to relate to other things I read today. I’ll chalk it up to a weird wrinkle in the universe.

[blog] The Ultimate Guide to building Developer Tool Websites. This post justifies the title of “ultimate guide.” It’s a really good look at how to build websites that developers find useful.

[blog] A tour of Gemini 1.5 Pro samples. Speaking of useful things offered on dev websites, Mete looks at code samples here. He looks at how to use Gemini to process audio, video, and multi-modalities at the same time.

[blog] Humility: The Secret Ingredient to Modern Tech Agility. We don’t celebrate humility (which I guess would be ironic in some way), but it’s a key ingredient to agile leaders and teams.

[blog] AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules. Talk about humbling! We’re now learning more about the biological world than ever before.

[[blog] The biggest effect on code quality. This author says its not about tools or skills; code quality is impacted by teams working in “crunch mode” and making mistakes.

[blog] What causes new engineers to “sink or swim”? If you want new developers on your team to be successful, check out this guidance for what determines that.

[article] What Can Incident Teams Learn From Crisis Management? My friend Dormain wrote up an insightful piece on the need for strong communication during incidents.

[blog] Maintain business continuity across regions with BigQuery managed disaster recovery. I just mentioned incident management, and here’s a piece on a new feature of BigQuery that offers automatic failover in the unlikely case of a regional outage.

[blog] Simplifying and standardizing software at scale. Here’s how the McDonalds engineering team is building golden paths to help teams build, ship, and run software better.

[blog] What is Istio? The Kubernetes service mesh explained. I don’t know if Istio helps you simplify things, but it’s definitely a powerful mesh that’s getting easier to use.

[blog] Observability, Telemetry, and Monitoring: Learn About the Differences. Stop using these words interchangeably! I’m mostly saying that to myself. But also, you might find this clarifying.

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