Yo! Welcome to the 15th reading list, let’s dig in 🫡

LLMs: an operator’s view

Speaks on the floor of productivity rising, organisation sizes, the importance of code reviews now, and interviews. Balanced take on some of the impacts of LLM’s for software developers.

Ryan Dahl on Deno and OpenTelemetry

Observability & telemetry has been a topic of interest lately. Deno attaches a trace_id to every request that comes in, making it much easier to follow how a request flowed through your system!

The Outbox Pattern

While building distributed and event driven systems, you’ll bump into the outbox pattern! It was good to put language to a pattern that I’d been leaning on without knowing

What nobody tells you about documentation

This video is an old favourite. My biggest takeaway from this one was the different archetypes of documentation: tutorials, how to guides, discussions, and reference

Building software with AI (a no-hype guide)

Aaron Francis dives into how him and Steve are operating their two man education company. Detailed masterclass on principles for working with AI. Also a really great resource for learning how to build event driven systems. A must watch for anyone interested in publishing video content on the internet.

Leadership corner

Two picks from Stay Saasy

• The Precise Language Of Good Management - Explores some common examples of imprecise language, why it’s a problem, and how to course-correct.
• This Is How You’re Eroding Accountability - Nothing gets done without accountability as you scale your teams. This article explores common pitfalls that undermine accountability

Podcast corner

Syntax fm

Many years later, this podcast is still so valuable for me🙌🏽

• Accepting Money on the Internet in 2025 - Syntax #890
• Build a documented type-safe API with hono, drizzle, zod, OpenAPI and scalar
• Get .localhost domain with true SSL certs by running something like Caddy locally.
• Everyone is Talking about MCP

• Developer experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam - If you’re interested in building internal platforms, this one is for you! At uber scale, they had interesting challenges around their monorepo & CI. A decent portion of time was also spent on career growth, with good segment on social capital and mentorship.
• Aaron Francis & Adam Wathan on Distribution and taste
• Things to Know when Considering Multi-Tenant or Multi-Threaded Applications - I love solving the set of problems that come with multi-tenant application. This episode dives into some of those: data-isolation, auth, maintenance and updates, OpenTelemetry, and more!