Daily Reading List – November 7, 2024 (#436)

Every Friday, I send an internal newsletter that includes a Richard Take about what’s going on in the industry. By Wednesday or Thursday, I usually have a topic chosen. This week, I don’t. It’s time to go walk the dogs and figure it out!

[article] How one CIO navigated the aftermath of a scrapped ERP overhaul. Tough call for a new leader, but I like the courage. Continuing with a failed program doesn’t help anyone but the vendor.

[article] Developer Experience Has Always Been a Profit Story. Sure. It’s naive to believe anything else. Any optimization to tools or work environment is done with the goal of helping people produce more/better output.

[article] A Guide to Handing Off Work Before a Vacation. Good advice here! It’s always a good time to take vacation, but make sure you’re not leaving your co-workers in the lurch.

[blog] Now run your custom code at the edge with the Application Load Balancers. Here’s a very cool capability to deploy plugins at the edge of the Google network to act on request/response traffic.

[article] Do user-centric engineering teams build better products? Good question! This post continues a look at the recent DORA survey and emphasizes how important user centricity is.

[blog] Big Ball of Mud – the world’s most popular software architecture. Good post that looks at how architecture emerges, and a handful of patterns.

[blog] Getting resource recommendations from VPA. When running a Kubernetes environment, you might not WANT automatic scaling. That’s cool. William shows how to get advice, not automated reactions.

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