Daily Reading List – July 13, 2023 (#121)

Light day as I took a midday flight to San Jose. Nevertheless, there are a handful of fun nuggets below.

[blog] Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries. Fairly remarkable update to Bard. More languages, more countries, image prompts, response refinement, and lots of other treats in this free generative AI playground.

[article] 5 Factors That Make for a Great Employee Experience. Ideally you work at a place that delivers all of these. Sometimes there are seasons where one or two of these lag.

[repo] Create a trace through Cloud Pub/Sub. If you’re tracing requests through your system, you don’t want to lose the part of the path that goes through systems like message brokers. This code sample shows how to keep it all together.

[blog] Summarize Audio Like a Maestro with Langchain, Chirp, and PaLM2 on Vertex AI. Big demo that shows off transcribing and summarizing audio content.

[blog] 5 Recurring Laws You Should Know. Great post from Traverse that explains “laws” you may hear about like Conway’s Law or Occam’s Razor.

[blog] Introducing NotebookLM. Can we reinvent notetaking software? Maybe. I like the creativity here.

[article] How to Know When You Need to Fire Your Customer. This concept can apply to many situations. Sometimes you have to cut loose!

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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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