Daily Reading List – July 8, 2024 (#350)

And I’m back. That was an excellent week off full of sun and fun. I tinkered around with a few tech things—reading books on data science, building a Kafka demo—but I mostly disconnected and embraced the free time. My reading queue was full of interesting items, hot takes, and educational material. Dig in.

[article] How DevProd teams got funded: 20 real-world examples. Do you have a formal developer productivity program in your team? Where does the funding come from?

[article] This AI cloud: How Google Gemini will help everyone build things faster, cheaper, better. I chatted with David at ZDNet about AI-assisted development and the future of this type of technology.

[blog] Serving a billion web requests with boring code. Here’s an excellent post with a good set of lessons learned about technology choices and design patterns.

[blog] FleetOps: Can the GKE Enterprise Stack Help Self-service Platforms Sync and Swim? Are integrated stacks “back”? Did they ever leave? Paul writes up a post that looks at an integrated GKE experience that forms the foundation of a good developer platform.

[docs] Migrate from AWS to Google Cloud: Migrate from Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Cloud SQL for SQL Server. I thought this provided a good set of advice for most any “from –> to” database migration. There are obviously some specific details to the target and destination listed here, but many parts of the workflow are general purpose.

[blog] What is Spring Modulith? Introduction to modular monoliths. If you like some of the loose coupling of a distributed system but appreciate the understand-ability of a monolithic app, you might like the “modular monolith” pattern. Here’s an example in Spring Boot.

[blog] TDD. You’re Doing it Wrong. Test-driven development is a useful practice, but there are wrong ways to do it, as John points out here.

[podcast] Navigating Corporate Giants: Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell. Listen (or read the transcript) to this conversation with Jeffrey who fought hard to build PowerShell within Microsoft.

[blog] DevRel’s Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon. Not wrong, and it’s a good thing. No more devrel talking to devrel and working on whatever seems interesting. Now it’s about being aligned to biz priorities, demonstrating deep expertise, and owning the delivery of an outstanding dev experience.

[article] AI’s moment of disillusionment. Matt’s been on this “skeptic” thread for a while, but always with an eye towards folks making good choices. Don’t fall into either extreme of recklessly applying AI to everything, or, sitting entirely on the sidelines.

[blog] Latest Gemini features support in LangChain4j 0.32.0. I’m not disillusioned about AI when I keep seeing the positive progress towards quality tooling and libraries that help folks build useful systems. Great new stuff in this Java library.

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