Daily Reading List – March 6, 2025 (#506)

I’ve got some things for you today that may cause angst—”why are colleagues jealous of me?”, “gah, our security situation is getting worse!”, “wait, I need to become a great storyteller?”—but it’s good to lean into hard problems.

[blog] Applied “Software Engineering at Google.” Wow, terrific piece by Addy. These are practices that anyone should consider adopting, even if you’re not Google-scale.

[article] Automation Can Solve Resource Overprovisioning in Kubernetes. Wow, virtually every Kubernetes cluster in the cloud has too much CPU allocated? There’s some advice here to fix it. More coverage on this topic here.

[blog] How I Code With LLMs These Days. Each of us is figuring out how these new tools work for us. Here’s one take.

[blog] Hej Sverige! Google Cloud launches new region in Sweden. The global expansion of Google Cloud keeps going. I’m happy that our Swedish friends now get access to the best!

[blog] AlloyDB Omni on Mac with Podman. This is a demo scenario, but you can run AlloyDB Omni for production use cases on any infrastructure. Pretty cool.

[article] When Your Colleague Is Jealous of Your Success. The world’s not driven by greed; it’s driven by envy. It’s a dangerous mindset, and we need to be aware of it.

[blog] Every Developer Deserves Great Documentation. They sure do. What “great” looks like is debatable, but you know it when you see it.

[article] Software Development Teams Struggle as Security Debt Reaches Critical Levels. Yeesh, not good. It’s taking teams longer to roll out security fixes to their code and systems. This might not get better as we generate even more code.

[blog] Not just for developers: How product and security teams can use GitHub Copilot. AI isn’t just for the IDE; all sorts of folks can use it on all sorts of surfaces to get their job done.

[blog] Why everyone can (and should) be a great storyteller. Heck yes. This matters more now than ever, and these skills will differentiate you in an AI-saturated market.

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