Daily Reading List – July 6, 2023 (#116)

Today I read many items that made me go “hmmm” in a good way. Check out a handful of written pieces on cloud, security, and more.

[blog] Five Nos. Someone who gets a lot of “yeses” likely also gets a lot of “nos.” They take chances. They ask for what they want and can handle rejection. Good post.

[blog] Google Cloud Interactive Tutorials Series — Week 6 : July 6 — July 12, 2023. Uniquely, Google Cloud offers product tutorials from within our cloud console. This blog series points out interesting ones each week, and this week’s offerings let you try CI/CD, serverless, and orchestration for free.

[article] Most popular generative AI projects on GitHub are the least secure. Most of the trending GitHub projects relate to AI, but do be careful about which you start using.

[blog] Using Google’s BeyondCorp to secure on-premises web applications. I’m so glad to be done with using VPNs to access internal apps and systems. If you’re working on a zero trust architecture, check this out. And this.

[article] AWS exec downplays existential threat of AI, calls it a ‘mathematical parlor trick.’ A click-baity headline, with some fairly reasonable perspective inside. AWS has been caught napping a bit here though, so it’ll be fascinating to watch how they respond with products, not just words and architectures.

[article] The Benefits of Being Bored at Work. Boredom, or a gap in “productive” work, is fine. This post emphasizes the importance of being not-busy.

[blog] Fighting the battle for our own attention. Related to the previous entry. Brian looks at our waning attention span, and taking active steps to regain focus.

[blog] 7 Large Language Model (LLM) APIs. Good recap of some popular models, with a list of LLM use cases as well.

[blog] Lessons Learned From Running Web Experiments. Informative post here from the Square engineering team.

[blog] Use Google Palm with Golang. I like seeing LLM API interactions with a whole set of different languages. This post shows how to use Go.

[blog] Why knowledge management is foundational to AI success. Straightforward message that we should all internalize before believing we can train models on our own data.

[blog] Banco BV modernizes its banking apps with GKE and Anthos. Good case study for those modernizing their platforms for cloud architectures.

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