Daily Reading List – November 4, 2024 (#433)

Happy Monday. It’s Election Day in the States tomorrow. On Wednesday, I expect the world to continue turning regardless of the outcome. Pass the time by reading some tech content!

[article] Platform Engineering’s Most Critical First Decision. Start from the developer portal and go down, or start from the backend platform and go up? That’s the debate called out here.

[blog] Writing secure Go code. There’s some great built-in and community tooling for validating, scanning, and testing your code for security-related concerns.

[blog] Firebase App Hosting: More regions & manual rollouts. This team is quietly delivering some very interesting IDE services (Project IDX), AI frameworks (Genkit), and modern app hosting environments (Firebase App Hosting).

[article] If You’re Not Refactoring Every Day, You’re Making a Mistake. Always be refactoring and modernizing. Don’t wait for a project; keep improving the components you operate.

[docs] Migrate from AWS to Google Cloud: Migrate from AWS Lambda to Cloud Run. This is a very good guide that helps you upgrade your serverless game.

[blog] Why software only moves forward. Does software ever really rollback? This post looks at why you always have to move forward given how data evolved after you shipped.

[article] OpenAI’s ChatGPT search engine challenges Google and Microsoft, and further upends the web. The much-anticipated search experience is out from Open AI? Can they challenge the king? We shall see. Probably not yet.

[article] Voyager 1 Just Phoned Home From 24 Billion Kilometers Away On A Transmitter Not Used Since 1981. I still consider the Voyagers to be one of humanities greatest achievements. We used to build stuff that lasted! Same with Roman concrete.

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