Daily Reading List – July 19, 2024 (#359)

I had a strong end to the week. Thanks to help from a teammate, I figured out my silly SQL error from yesterday and finished building demos for my upcoming keynote at Google IO Connect in China. I also started to dig out of my email hole, and still made time to read some informative items.

[article] Major Windows BSOD issue hits banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters. Yikes, what a mess. Lots to read about on this, including a Forrester piece (CrowdStrike Global Outage: Critical Next Steps For Tech And Security Leaders) and a giant Reddit thread.

[blog] Accelerating code migrations with AI. Here’s a detailed story of a new internal Google tool that helps our team generate and validate code changes for migration.

[blog] Introducing Genkit for Go: Build scalable AI-powered apps in Go. Ok, this will convince me to give Genkit a try. Here’s another framework for building apps that use LLMs. Looks solid.

[blog] The case for conferences in 2024. It might be easier to justify conference travel now than a few years ago (fewer health risks, more dynamic tech environment), but it’s still not easy. Forrest looks at how to make the case.

[docs] Releasing code. How does Google open source its code? This documents our process for releasing any of our source code outside of Google. It might be useful to you if you’re crafting or updating your company’s OSS strategy.

[blog] Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues. If you have agile software teams, you might be familiar with estimation of work through “story points.” This post takes that apart.

[article] Don’t blame AI for rise in carbon emissions, says Google exec. We shared data a couple weeks ago about our resource consumption, which most folks attributed to AI. Jeff says “not so fast.”

[article] After a Decade of React, Is Frontend a Post-React World Now? There are few frameworks that seem to maintain their dominance for 10+ years. Good for React, and we’ll see if they can hold onto it!

[blog] VMware Cloud Foundation on Google Cloud VMware Engine: 20% lower price and up to 40% in migration incentives. Cloud computing may indeed be cheaper than your data center. Especially if you depend on a hypervisor.

[article] AI budgets poised to surge in 2025. Many folks will spend something on AI, but as this article rightly points out, a trained workforce and solid data foundation are a must-have.

[article] Pair of Surveys Surface Primary Developer Productivity Challenges. Some good news and bad news in these surveys. There’s a lot of wasted time, but there’s also fresh investment in dev experience. Related piece in The New Stack (Why Do Developers Lose 1 Day a Week to Inefficiencies?).

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