API Governance: What does that mean

Author: Kin Lane

I really liked this as a small thought-provoking exercise. As I get older, I am asking for more definitions in everyday conversations. The key takeaway for me on this one was leadership only willing to govern one area, but not the whole. Sounds a lot like most software engineering where there are segregated roles.

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Codegen workflows

Author: Harper Reed

Martin Fowler boosted this on Mastodon so I took a peek. I am glad I did. I am really starting to see how using LLMs for design becomes a game changer.

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CORS - Dangers of a bad Implementation

Author: Kevin Stubbings

This post has a great overview, with some real-world examples of implementations that can create vulnerabilities. CORS is complex and needs extra development time to be factored in for testing in my opinion. I was thinking what a painful test experience here. Must be some articles to research later for good testing.

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Extract Method: I’d rather read 50 lines of code

Author: Derek Comartin

This caught my attention because I am a fan of readable source code. 50 lines in a method drives me nuts. The video should create some aha moments for many developers. Especially when it comes to returning from functions that the extract method refactoring hides sometimes.

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Hanselminutes: Tiny Experiments

Author: Scott Hanselman, Anne-Laure Le Cunff

I am buying Tiny Experiments after this podcast. I have had several places in my reading, research, leisure that has talked about “purpose”. Manufactured content with a leaderboard is not where I want to be. It is time to break free from that. Create something useful than scroll. Anne-Laure talks about my “valuesharing” mindset.

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Leadership Lessons from 60

Author:

This is a great list to 10 nuggets, I wish I had known as a younger leader. Really love the bit about learning from Wisdom before you have to learn from Pain. Character matters for your legacy.

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Observability is everyone’s job

Author: Martin Thwaites

I appreciate this, as it is one area of engineering that is usually sub par for many teams. The non-negotiables for code should include this and there is a real good list of other necessary skills / disciplines.

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Paralyzed - Functional Freeze

Author:

I have felt this way for a pretty long season. The last two weeks I have really reflected on some small changes to get out of this freeze

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Semantic Telemetry

Author: Microsoft Research

I need to spend a lot more time just thinking about this topic. There is so much detail here and I think this will be a fascinating project to understand user behavior with AI Models. The statement of move from deterministic to probability based telemetry is fascinating. I am only about 85% sure I got this right :)

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Starbucks Scalability For Developers

Author: Weronika Łabaj

This is a great post that was back in 2016, talking about scalability in a business context. The principles of knowing what is important, and concurrency from the start make this a great read. Key: If someone takes your coffee, it isn’t the end of the world. I am sure you will get another one.

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Thoughtworks Technology Radar

Author: Thoughtworks

These publications are very insightful about the technology spaces engineers are in. Make sure you open the PDF

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