What I read/listened-to the week of 02/12?
What I read
When your technical skills are eclipsed, your soft skills will matter more than ever
- The A.I. Economy Will Make Jobs More Human
What happened if TikTok is your marketing department
A little bit easier to sell software
- Seems like market is up just a little bit for B2B
How AI is transforming the business of advertising
The Making of a Senior Engineer
Top 100+ Software Engineering Newsletters
Automated Unit Test Improvement using Large Language Models at Meta
- We believe this is the first report on industrial scale deployment of LLM-generated code backed by such assurances of code improvement.
The single-tenancy to multi-tenancy spectrum
- In this article we have covered the pros and cons of single-tenant and multi-tenant solutions. We have seen how single-tenancy is a good option to get started quickly, but has a clear and solid growth ceiling. Single-tenancy might be a good long-term solution if you know you only need to handle a limited number of customers.
- Multi-tenant architectures are the preferred solution for services which require unbounded scale. Multi-tenancy is the only way to serve a large number of customers within the resource limits set by your cloud provider. However, multi-tenant systems are inherently more complex, which affects speed of development and operational overhead. They also increase the potential blast radius of incidents.
- The blast radius can be reduced by applying a zonal or cellular design to your multi-tenanted systems. This will limit the impact of incidents and will allow your developers to detect issues before they hit your most critical systems. However, it also adds additional complexity, and reduces some of the benefits gained from multi-tenancy.
- In the end, which solution fits your application best fully depends on your business context, the stage in your application’s lifecycle, and the priorities set by your stakeholders. I hope this article will help you make an informed decision.
What I listened to
- It's an extra long all-in podcast this week, as the arriving of Sora model this week, the initial portion of the pod was some insights on video models, and its potential limitation.
- The 2nd portion is also quite tempting to dial in, it's about when company offers cash to startup employees to help them buy options, what's the big caveats behind it?
- Could Intel has a cyclical recovery?
Enjoy the mid-winter break!
