What I'm reading - 7th November 2023 (#1)

My first edition of What I’m reading I don’t intend to become another aggregator of content but rather just want to use this a space to sporadically share the articles / blogs / podcasts I’ve found interesting lately.

[article] Generating Mermaid Syntax Diagrams with AI-powered Amazon Bedrock. This was an interesting read that opened up yet another good use of generative AI (ChatGPT et all) in software development activities.

[podcast] Key findings from the 2023 State of DevOps Report (Engineering Enablement Podcast). Abi does a deep dive into the recent findings from the 2023 State of DevOps report from DORA with Nathen Harvey (who leads DORA at Google).

[whitepaper] Platform Engineering Maturity Model. Published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, this paper gives organisations a clear path to maturity for platform engineering, it built upon research that was published earlier this year.

[paper] Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications and Cloud Native Software Engineering . I’ve not had a chance to read either of these papers yet but they look interesting. The second paper in particular highlights that software is increasingly moving to the Edge and if the success that Cloudflare are having with their service offering is anything to go by, I’d say there is some truth to that.