Daily Reading List – July 25, 2024 (#363)

You’ll find a mix of content in today’s reading list. I really enjoyed digging into the StackOverflow survey results, and learned a few tech things today as well.

[site] StackOverflow 2024 Developer Survey. This survey of 60k+ developers always offers an insightful view into developer priorities and preferences.

[blog] How Do Software Vendors Communicate Big Releases? I’m paid to keep up with things, and I barely can. I’m not sure how others keep track. Fintan does a good job breaking down the various release (communication) cadences.

[blog] Gemini’s big upgrade: Faster responses with 1.5 Flash, expanded access and more. Speaking of releases, here’s a big one for the Gemini app. Get great AI, bigger context, and source-verifying links.

[blog] The Ultimate Golang Framework for Microservices: GoFr. I’ve been seeing more mentions of this framework lately, and will definitely try it out.

[article] Google Cloud breaks records – CapEx climbs to $13 billion. We’re growing, and investing, at an impressive rate.

[article] CrowdStrike blames bug that caused worldwide outage on faulty testing software. We’re getting some details now on how this all went down. What’s important now is how everyone takes measures to prevent this sort of thing (or the cascading failures) the next time.

[blog] Go-To-Market Troubleshooting: Let’s Take It From The Top. This was such an educational post from Dave! He looks at issues with pipeline and close rates.

[blog] Secure Node.js Applications from Supply Chain Attacks. If you lead an engineering team and ship Node apps, make sure you’re doing some of the key activities called out in this post.

[article] When Asking Too Many Questions Undermines Your Leadership. Questions are good. Vague questions, non-stop questions, or left-field questions, not so much. Good advice here.

[blog] Hosting a Hugo-Generated Blog on Google Cloud Storage. Sometimes starting with (and sticking with) the simplest solution is best. You don’t need a Kubernetes cluster to run a blog.

[blog] Why OpenAI may well be completely Zuck’d. Models alone won’t be a differentiator for most anyone. Ecosystems and strong monetization strategies will matter!

[blog] Run Google’s Gemma 2 model on a single GPU with Ollama: A Step-by-Step Tutorial. Speaking of models, Gemma is a pretty good one! I liked this post which explained the steps to experiment with it on a hosted platform like Colab.

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