It’s the end to another wild work week. Are you taking time to decompress and give your brain time to make new connections? I hope so. See you Monday.
[article] Rote automation is so last year: AI pushes more intelligence into software development. Good analysis that looks at trends, risks, and benefits of applying AI to a wider set of use cases than just coding.
[blog] The Bulkhead Pattern: How To Make Your System Fault-tolerant. How do you isolate components so that a failure in one doesn’t cascade further and take down the whole system? Here’s some guidance.
[blog] Tutorial: Vertex AI Agent Builder for Developers. You don’t have to be a coder to build AI agents nowadays. Coding can be part of it, but not required. Here’s one walkthrough.
[blog] Vertex AI Agent Builder Demo from I/O. Aja shares some lessons learned building a demo for our joint presentation at Google I/O.
[article] At Kubernetes 10th Anniversary in Mountain View: History Remembered. I like articles such as this. It’s a reminder that OSS is full of great people doing their best to make a difference.
[blog] Ambient and the SPOF Myth. Does the architecture of the proxy-less version of the Istio mesh introduce a single point of failure? John says no.
[blog] The Struggle Makes the Reward. If AI or other tech is taking away some of the challenging parts of your day, make sure you replace that with something else that gives you a deep sense of accomplishment.
[article] Take Your First Steps for Building on LLMs With Google Gemini. This only uses our model, not any of our other tech—app is built in Node and deployed to Heroku—and that’s fine with me. Just use great models.
[blog] 5 more myths about platform engineering: how it’s built, what it does, and what it doesn’t. There’s some useful, candid advice in here. Take a look if you’re building or optimizing a platform engineering team.
[blog] How to integrate Gemini and Sheets with BigQuery. I wouldn’t have thought to mash together these products this way, but that makes this all the more interesting to me.
[article] Rust Growing Fastest, But JavaScript Reigns Supreme. 43 million devs out there, according to SlashData. This article looks at which languages are the most popular.
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