Daily Reading List – July 17, 2023 (#123)

This past weekend I was reminded that the only control I have in life relates to how I react to what happens. I control virtually nothing else. Once we accept that, it changes our outlook. Check out some great content from today, including a heavy dose of AI material.

[blog] Half Of Generative AI Users Are Indiscriminate About Data Use. It’s an uphill climb for enterprise compliance teams who face tech that their folks will use one way or the other!

[blog] Accelerate your Multiplayer Game Development with the Global Scale Multiplayer Demo. This is the best tech demo I’ve seen this year. Explore the code and deploy it yourself to see a host of technologies come together to serve up a real, playable game.

[article] DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – July 2023. Check this out for a sense of what’s considered mainstream and emerging in the cloud and automation space.

[blog] Symbol tuning improves in-context learning in language models. Quite an interesting post that looks at a new approach to tuning models.

[blog] What makes developers productive? Terrific post that reminds us that “productivity” isn’t a checkbox in a product somewhere, but the result of a well-designed system that developers work within.

[article] The engines of AI: Machine learning algorithms explained. Even if you’re tuning out the AI hype machine, keep an eye on foundational content like this.

[blog] The big picture: How Google Photos scaled rapidly on Spanner. Four trillion photos on Google Photos? You people are picture-taking animals! Here’s a look at the underlying database.

[article] Keeping Your Spirits Up When You Really Need a Win at Work. You’ve had those days, months, or years where it feels like you’ve felt beat up? It’s normal. This article looks at how to stay motivated and approach life when you need that win.

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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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