Shifting left, Google Cloud Tech Nuggets, and DataHub

Hello 👋🏽

Welcome to my weekly tech musings. Do reply to me on what you liked this week and what you want to see more. In addition, you could access old issues here!

With advent of the cloud, newer ways to scale software, and storing the data, we unlocked more unique ways to build and control the user experience. This made our systems complex and our tools endless. Shipping the software has also become difficult, which should ideally be more manageable, reproducible than producing an automobile.

This is where a newer generation of tools, frameworks are evolving to solve this issue. Essentially, the “Shifting-left” strategy for everything done before shipping the end product is a new trend. And this is not new!

When I was an Intel Employee, a senior leader explained how much a simple software bug could cost. It is in $$$$ or more.

Finally, Shifting is not a tool but a culture.

Following any Cloud platform is so hard. There are many updates, new services, preview programs in addition to integrations with several systems. My friend Romin, a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, writes these Tech Nuggets for some time, summarizing the latest happenings in GCP. Take a look for yourself!

I came across Forrest‘s twitter profile and stumbled across this article. Quite interesting thing to note while making a “Build vs Buy” decisions.

Datahub is an open-source metadata platform that helps you make data discovery, especially for the Data engineering teams.

Join Vivek, me and Azure developer community to hear more about Azure Kubernetes Service, as well as, running a stateful application like Elasticsearch!

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Sincerely,

Aravind Putrevu 👋🏽