Daily Reading List – December 12, 2024 (#459)

Today’s back to a wider mix of content, not just me shilling for Gemini. No promises on what tomorrow brings. There are some deep reads today, so grab a warm beverage and dig in.

[blog] Infrastructure as Code + Cloud Asset Management. What is cloud asset management all about, and where does that intersect with IaC? There’s a lot of interesting possibilities here.

[blog] Why Message Queues Endure: A History. Wow, what a deeply researched piece on one of the fundamental building blocks of many distributed systems.

[blog] Developer’s guide to getting started with Gemini 2.0 Flash on Vertex AI. Great details from Erwin for those using the new SDK to interact with Gemini 2.0.

[blog] The Death of Developer Relations. Hot take. Not wrong. Our own team has evolved to more of a PLG mindset, while focusing on tangible metrics for improving the dev experience.

[blog] Android XR: The Gemini era comes to headsets and glasses. This looks super cool, and is a step beyond those early augmented experiences. SDK dev preview now available.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: Our 2025 Cybersecurity Forecast report. This is an important item to read, especially as you focus on new threats and staying offense.

[article] 4 North Star Metrics for Platform Engineering Teams. This is for measuring dev experience and productivity. It builds on existing work from DORA, SPACE, and Google research.

[article] Ruby on Rails 8.0 Released, Introduces Kamal 2 for Improved Deployments. Is RoR back? Did it ever leave? Many folks love Ruby and like this framework. Glad to see it healthy.

[article] MongoDB smashes Wall Street expectations. Devs still love this database, and the MongoDB folks are crushing it at sales. Good job!

[blog] Scaling to zero on Google Kubernetes Engine with KEDA. Scaling a workload to zero on a Kubernetes cluster? That’s something the open KEDA project is good at. Here’s how to use it with our managed Kubernetes service.

[article] 25 Hard Questions Every Founder Should Ask Themselves.This says its for founders, but most of these questions are also very applicable to any product leader.

[article] How Gen AI Affects the Value of Development Work. There’s some interesting research here, especially the rubric on how developers see “value” in their work.

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