Daily Reading List – October 23, 2024 (#425)

I had a day trip today to attend one of my team’s leadership offsites, and love how we’ve transformed Developer Relations over the past year+. We’ve got a terrific team of experts who focus on priority products and journeys while focusing on helping developers find, use, and stay on our platform.

[blog] The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren’t fallacies. Loved this. There are many “fallacies” out there (confirmation bias, sunk cost fallacy, survivorship bias) and Jason flips this on its head. Instead of saying why they’re negative, he looks at why they can be reasonable.

[blog] 7 ways we’re incorporating security by design into our products and services. I like how we think about this, and you can use the same approach with your systems.

[blog] Google is a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. Wow. A few years ago, would you have bet that Gartner would assess Google Cloud as more visionary than AWS, and better at execution than Microsoft? Wild.

[blog] No, The Bug in in Your Code (And Mine). Jon says that the error you’ve found in your app is probably not a compiler bug. It’s a you bug. Start by assuming you’ve made a mistake somewhere!

[article] Latest DORA Report Surfaces Limited Gains from AI and Platform Engineering. News articles are showing up about our new research report into software delivery performance.

[blog] Introducing Keras Hub: Your one-stop shop for pretrained models. Many folks use Keras as a deep learning library for training models. This new hub makes it easier to work with pretrained models.

[site] ThoughtWorks Technology Radar v31. This is one of my favorite tech assessments and I eagerly await each edition. Read this to find out which platforms, languages, practices, and tools matter right now.

[article] 4 ways AI could impact employees, workflows: Gartner. Some of these predictions feel pretty bold. But I can see how they happen!

[article] Beyond Monitoring: How Observability 2.0 Is Revolutionizing Developer Experience. Are you doing 1.0 work, or have you embraced a new style of understanding your systems?

[article] Tensions with OpenAI underscore Microsoft’s need to ensure its own AI future. I can imagine. It’s great to have partners, but you also want some control of your own destiny.

[blog] Measuring developer experience with the HEART Framework: A guide for platform engineers. Here’s one good way to think about developer experience if you’re running a platform that serves developers.

[blog] Spanner and PostgreSQL at Prefab: Flexible, reliable, and cost-effective at any size. Get the best database in the cloud, but with a standard interface? Good story here.

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