Link Dump #175

How about making Friday great again and read something interesting?

1. Software Development
   1. Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products
      In the article authors present and explain what Direct Prompting and Evals patterns are.
   2. Kafka Producer and Consumer Message Acknowledgement Options
      Apache Kafka is a messaging and streaming system that provides acknowledgment options for ensuring reliability guarantees. In this tutorial, let’s learn about acknowledgment options for producers and consumers in Apache Kafka.
   3. DevOps Scaling Practices — A Roadmap With Challenges and Strategies #PickOfTheWeek
      As DevOps aims to enhance software delivery lifecycles with improved quality, scaling DevOps can help enterprises grow. Let us start by understanding the importance of DevOps scaling in modern companies.
   4. 9 Tips for Productive Java Development With Databases in IntelliJ IDEA #PickOfTheWeek
      In the article, the author shares nine time-saving ways IntelliJ IDEA can boost your productivity when developing Java applications with databases – whether you’re starting a new project or diving into an ongoing one.
2. Code Quality
   1. Stop Equating Layered Architectures with DDD
      The author explains why traditional layered architectures fragment your domain and how feature modules keep it cohesive
3. Agile
   1. Does Scrum Have Too Many Meetings? #PickOfTheWeek
      A common criticism of Scrum is that it has too many meetings or that the meetings take too long and distract from “real work.” However, when a team complains about Scrum meetings, it’s usually not truly a case of too many meetings in Scrum.
4. Leadership
   1. The Strategic Significance of an Effective Leader
      Organizations that invest in cultivating capable, adaptable leaders are better equipped to drive sustainable expansion, foster thriving cultures, and secure robust performance in an ever-challenging marketplace.
   2. The Illusion of Innovation (and Escaping the Efficiency Trap) #PickOfTheWeek
      In The Illusion of Innovation, author Elliott Parker believes that the focus on capital efficiency makes companies less capable of making big innovation bets that progress society because those bets have an uncertain payoff. The result is the illusion of innovation and progress while sacrificing resiliency.
5. Fun
   1. The Big Refactoring Update
      
   2. git submodules adoption flow

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