I had a great weekend, and am back in it today with meetings, some fiddling with cloud services, and reading. Enjoy the items below.
[article] Tech Works: How to Get Promoted without Becoming a Manager. In most respects, “manager” is a new role, not a promotion. Plenty of folks want to stay as individual contributors, and this piece looks at a new level for IC engineers.
[blog] Our newest investments in infrastructure and AI skills. A million Americans learning AI at no cost? Sounds like a good thing to me.
[article] What do developers want from AI? This review of a paper by Google shows that devs want to stay in control, but use AI to do their job more efficiently, with less toil.
[blog] Leveraging Gemini 1.5 for Efficient Information Extraction on Long PDFs. Which generative AI use cases do I think add the most value today? I really like text summarization or extraction tasks. Imagine being able to parse big documents quickly and find that specific nugget of knowledge!
[blog] 7 Leadership Communication Skills for Managing a Remote Team. Even if you’re back in the office full-time now, I’d suspect that you work with folks outside your 10-foot radius. These are some good pieces of advice for managers helping a distributed team do its best work.
[blog] Revolutionizing Literature Searches with AlloyDB and Vector Search: An $80,000 Lesson Learned! Good walkthrough here of using PostgreSQL for vectors, and building a serverless app with it. All in service of a worthwhile use case.
[blog] Measuring Service Failure, or why to not use CFR and MTTR. The argument here is to use Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives to measure services versus more broad metrics like change failure rate and mean time to recovery.
[blog] The trap of over-engineering and over-design. It’s alluring to build systems that can handle all sorts of possible future scenarios. It also causes us to build unnecessarily complicated architectures that rarely get flexed in all the ways we envisioned.
[blog] The power of choice: Simplifying your regulatory and compliance journey. I definitely like the “use regulatory controls in the public cloud” versus “use a dedicated gov cloud instance” approach.
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