Daily Reading List – August 2, 2023 (#134)

Ending the day at Inbox Zero, so that’s a plus. At least until I drive home from work and notice a dozen new emails. But we take the victories where we can get them, right? I read a handful of items today, and even had a chance to try out the new Go templates called out below.

[blog] The Transformer architecture of GPT models. This is more like a paper than a blog post. It explains the Google-created Transformer architecture in depth. Skim through for a perspective on encoders, embeddings, and more.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: Late July 2023. Good set of links related to security happenings, along with an intro that covers how cloud can help security and resilience in healthcare settings.

[blog] Accelerating the mission with generative AI. We’re doing some wonderful work with AI in the consumer space, as well as redefining AI in the enterprise as well. Here’s a look at public sector scenarios.

[article] 3 Ways to Keep Your Audience Focused During a Presentation. Good advice for those of us who want to make sure our audience actually hears what we have to say.

[blog] Just Start. Indeed. Don’t worry about how much you need to do or want to get done. Just get started and go from there.

[blog] How DoorDash Migrated from StatsD to Prometheus. Very few tech choices are permanent. Here’s one DoorDash swapped their metrics infrastructure.

[blog] Experimenting with project templates. This I like. .NET devs have a good project bootstrapping process with dotnet new and you’ll find other languages/frameworks that get you going. Now, Go has one. And Google Cloud folks already introduced 4 templates to try out.

[blog] How to create meeting notes in Google Docs. I didn’t know about this. It’s these sorts of things that come out of an online, collaboration-first productivity suite.

[blog] In command. You can’t be in control of everything. Or frankly much at all. But you can be in command of yourself and how you approach things.

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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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