As I’ve gotten older and grayer, I’ve learned that the best leaders are the ones who ask the best questions. I don’t know exactly how you learn that skill. Practice? Having a clear sense of the big picture? Studying improv? Regardless, I’m getting better at it, but am surrounded by folks who are already good at it.
[blog] Keeping Up to Date With News and Trends When Working in DevRel. Ignore the title. This is a post about building a process to continuously learn in tech. It reflects some of my own process for staying up to date.
[article] Generative AI and a new version of old programming. Refers to a blog I shared yesterday. It’s all about what it means today to program with AI.
[blog] How Google Measures Developer Productivity. Good post that looks at how Google measures its engineers happiness and productivity.
[blog] Tutorial: Llama2 70b serving on GKE. Want to run Meta’s model yourself? Here’s a quick look at how to throw it onto your GKE cluster.
[article] JLL rolls out proprietary generative AI model to internal employees. We’re going to see lots of demand for this, and many implementations. Fine-tuning an existing model isn’t TOO hard if you’re using the right platforms.
[article] AI and the future of software development. Everyone seems to know the future of development! I liked a few of the points here, however.
[blog] Observability at the Edge. Having 2,800 Kubernetes clusters isn’t THAT crazy for an enterprise, but having a single cluster in 2,800 different locations? That’s more unique. Here’s how Chick-fil-A approaches observability.
[blog] Trigger a Cloud Run service starting from an (Apigee) audit log event with EventArc. Trust-but-verify is a necessary approach to the cloud. Self-service is great, but you need to be able to react to changes introduced to various systems. This post shows how to respond to a “delete API proxy” event with a serverless hook.
[blog] Go 1.21 is released! Highlights from the latest release of the Go language. Some good improvements, including an intriguing addition for WebAssembly.
[blog] Introducing H3 compute-optimized VMs for high performance computing (HPC). VM machine family announcements? What is this, 2016? Nah, there are fewer of these nowadays, but there are always workloads that need specialized hardware configurations.
[blog] Insights into Stack Overflow’s traffic. Traffic to StackOverflow hasn’t cratered because of generative AI. The SO team explains the trends and their optimistic future.
[blog] AdaTape: Foundation model with adaptive computation and dynamic read-and-write. I don’t pretend to understand everything I read, but I get the gist. And more importantly, I’m glad we’re always pushing the envelope and sharing our research in public.
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