There are a couple of good team/career based pieces in today’s list. If you work solo, fantastic. But if you’re like most of us who deliver through a team, don’t underrate the value of investing there!
[blog] How to Create a Google Workspace Digital Assistant Agent in Google Cloud Agentspace. Be a little selfish. It’s ok to build an app, tool. or agent just for yourself. And with these no-code builder environments, anyone can do this.
[article] The Secret to Building a High-Performing Team. Looks like we’re comfortable covering 92% of what we want to say, but often censor the last 8%. Why is that? What does it take to have a high-trust culture that permits us to air everything out?
[blog] 6 ways to use NotebookLM to master any subject. These are great updates for students, but also for any of us who are trying to learn and digest new topics.
[article] Kubernetes Primer: Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) for GPU Workloads. This is a important update to Kubernetes resource management. Good overview here.
[notebook] Get started with Vertex AI Memory Bank. I read through this new notebook today, and thought it was a good dive into creating agents with memory.
[blog] The Endless Hot Vibe Code Summer. Good recap and analysis of this hot trend that’s got people excited, upset, and confused.
[blog] AI Mode. Simon gave our AI Mode another shot, and came away pleasantly surprised. These results will never be perfect, but I like how we’ve complemented standard Search.
[blog] 996. You aren’t your job. Chasing a “satisfying career” over everything else rarely leads to long-term happiness and fulfillment. Do whatever you want, but don’t work yourself to death because someone else tells you that’s how you matter in life.
[article] 13 reasons SQL has got to go. Oof, this goes hard after SQL! Many of these points do make sense, but I’m not clear on whether any alternative is truly better.
[blog] Is that a deprecation? Or is it just removed? Words mean things. If you deprecate something, you’ve discouraged new users but kept it alive for existing ones. Removal takes it away from everyone!
[blog] In-browser semantic search with EmbeddingGemma. When the model is smaller than most web pages, you can afford to use it in a static app that runs locally in your browser.
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