Daily Reading List – November 6, 2024 (#435)

Quiet-ish day at the office so I had a chance to tackle a few tech projects from my backlog. I did some code customization in Gemini Code Assist which used private code repos to give me suggestions. And I tried out new functionality in our App Integration service. Good stuff. Also, I read some things.

[blog] Tracing the Line: Understanding Logs vs. Traces. What’s a log and when do you use it? How about a trace? This post distinguishes the two from each other.

[article] How To Fail at Microservices. Good look at the various patterns/anti-patterns for running distributed services in your architecture.

[article] To Help Your Team Learn, Set Them Up for Productive Failure. More failure talk? Sure, it’s a good teacher at times. This post looks at how team leaders can help teams take risks.

[article] Create a Full-Stack App With Go and React. Here’s a solid tutorial that shows some open technologies on the frontend, backend, and in-between.

[article] Platform vs. DevEx teams: What’s the difference? You might have a platform engineering team in place, and are considering a developer experience team. Are they different? Same team with different labels? This post spells it out.

[article] Microsoft Security Weaknesses Creating Huge Opportunity for Google Cloud. No lies detected. Microsoft has some fundamental issues to figure out with regards to security.

[blog] Scaling container resources automatically with VPA. William has a great post about vertical pod autoscaling in Kubernetes. What I really liked was that he let this example bake for a while, and showed the results over time.

[blog] Are SDKs Still Relevant In The AI Age? You could think that AI might generate all your code versus needing pre-built SDKs. But that doesn’t seem like the best idea.

[blog] Your Customers Don’t Care About JavaScript. I have no idea what tech stack sits beneath my bank’s systems, and I don’t really care. I want it to be fast, safe, and available.

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