We had a great customer council meeting today in New York, and I love it when customers can be in a room with us for a day to provide feedback and hear about roadmaps. Back home tomorrow.
[blog] Gemini 1.5 Pro 2M context window, code execution capabilities, and Gemma 2 are available today. Each of these is super valuable. Even larger input context for one-shot requests into the LLM. Use Gemini to execute and iterate on Python code. And access our latest open model.
[article] What GitHub Pull Requests Reveal about Your Team’s Dev Habits. Looking for hidden patterns in your git transactions? Some researchers did just that.
[blog] “It’s a Balance” isn’t always the answer. I liked this post that explored a handful of decision making approaches to use based on the situation at hand.
[blog] Infrastructure as Code Landscape Overview 2024. Brian uses this post to look at declarative resource-oriented provisioning tools, so not things like Ansible, Chef, or Docker. If you’ve heard of all of these tools, you are a wizard.
[blog] Transformation Regrets. We often just hear survivor stories about how great something was. History is written by the winners! But where have things gone wrong on product transformations? Marty covers that here.
[blog] 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate. More than half a billion people speak the languages we just added to Google Translate.
[blog] Structuring Go Code for CLI Applications. The “right” project structure is the one that works for you, but most of us can pick up good practices from others.
[article] How Expedia Group Moved From 21 Platform Stacks to 1. Consolidation is so hot right now! Good teams are looking to reduce redundancy is their platforms, tools, and stacks.
[blog] Enhancing Netflix Reliability with Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding. Cool post from Netflix about how they smartly throttle pre-fetch requests to ensure that user-initiated requests get priority under load.
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