Daily Reading List – June 10, 2024 (#336)

Happy Monday! I had a weekend of baseball games, playing outside, and running errands. So, mostly kid-like activities with a little bit of adulting. I read through a lot today which I hope you enjoy.

[blog] AI Patterns. I read everything that Steve writes, as he’s one of my favorite industry analysts. This perspective on AI interface, model sizes, and deployment locations may spark some thoughts of your own.

[blog] TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge. The Berkeley AI folks wrote up a good post about running model inference locally. Neat stuff here.

[blog] Lightning-fast decision-making: How AI can boost OODA loop impact on cybersecurity. This is about security teams, but most can benefit from these rapid learning loops.

[article] Tech Works: How Can I Make Myself More Productive? It’s ok to be a little selfish sometimes. How do you advocate for your own growth?

[blog] What To Expect In OPA 1.0. Open Policy Agent is fairly widely used as a way to define and implement policy in your Kubernetes clusters. Check this out for what’s new in the 1.0 release.

[blog] Exploring Google Cloud Reasoning Engine. This managed service makes it easier to build generative AI apps that use LangChain to supplement results with function calling.

[article] Apple Intelligence is the company’s new generative AI offering. Apple made a ton of exciting announcements today, and will make AI accessible to tons of folks.

[blog] Hands on with Gemini models in BigQuery: Decoding sentiment in customer reviews. Lots of depth in this post. Read through for how to invoke LLMs from data warehouse queries.

[blog] Everything you need to know about Istio installation. Tons of details here. One option not mentioned here are the installers that come from vendors who package Istio.

[docs] Cross-Cloud Network for distributed applications. This four-part doc set offers some terrific guidance for those developing cross-cloud systems with responsible networking.

[blog] Kubernetes: 48% of Users Struggle With Tool Choice. Bigger deployments, more complexity, and trouble picking tools in the ecosystem. That’s inevitable with the mainstreaming of a platform like this, but still a reason to look at practices like platform engineering.

[blog] Straightforward, Gemini powered sentiment analysis with Langchain4J. Calling an LLM isn’t super difficult now, and Aaron shows how to do sentiment analysis in a Spring Boot app.

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Author: Richard Seroter

Richard Seroter is currently the Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud and leads the Developer Relations program. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former InfoQ.com editor plus former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. As Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud, Richard leads the team of developer advocates, developer engineers, outbound product managers, and technical writers who ensure that people find, use, and enjoy Google Cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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