I’ve got a vacation coming up starting Friday and will go offline for a week, but there’s still too much going on to think about it much yet. Until then, here are some great reads I came across today.
[blog] Why Chatbots Are Not the Future. The chat interface helped many of us see AI as more approachable and practical. But I doubt most of us want to do all our work by chatting with a robot. There’s something better.
[blog] Local testing Spring + GCP Firestore. Emulators are good for local dev and testing. This post shows off the local Firestore database emulator that Java devs can use.
[article] What’s missing in your cloud optimization projects. If you’re a heavy cloud user, I’d be somewhat surprised if you didn’t apply all of these approaches. But a good reminder nonetheless.
[blog] How to easily migrate your on-premises firewall rules to Cloud Firewall policies. Our cloud firewall protects resources, not the cloud perimeter. Make sure you evolve your firewall approach as you move to the cloud.
[article] AI Prompt Engineering Isn’t the Future. The point here is to get better at problem formulation versus over-investing in how to ask questions to robots.
[blog] Announcing the General Availability of Synadia Control Plane. NATS is a popular, lightweight open source product that makes it easier for distributed services to find and communicate with each other. Synadia is the sponsoring company, and has a new control plane product that looks pretty cool.
[blog] Gotchas of Streaming Pipelines: Profiling & Performance Improvements. This is from Lyft’s Engineering team. Even if you don’t use Beam, Flink, and such, you’ll likely get some ideas about where to explore performance issues in your data pipeline architecture.
[blog] Predict, personalize, and wow your customers with better analytics and AI. Looks like people really dig personalized online experienced. Even in financial services.
[blog] AI software buyers more bullish on tech spend: report. Buyers looking for AI, which means vendors are going to give it to them.
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