The days are getting a noticeably shorter here in the Northern Hemisphere. When I lived in the Seattle area, it would bother me because I knew it meant dark, wet winter was around the corner. Now, not as much. Paying the sunshine tax has some privileges!
[blog] Google Cloud Skills Boost — Part 6— Attention Mechanism: Overview. Good little summary of a training course for generative AI.
[podcast] The Role of DevRel at Google with Richard Seroter. I chatted with Corey Quinn about the future of AI, what tech you should bet on, the hard work of earning and retaining customer trust, and why our DevRel team is awesome.
[article] Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy. Vendors capitalizing (maybe) on Red Hat’s strategy.
[article] Transactions in a Microservice World. Depending on your age, you might have a visceral reaction to discussions of distributed transactions. There be dragons! Great post here.
[blog] Exploring the Top Lightweight Alternatives to React in 2023. I don’t do much frontend work, but it’s good to be aware of what’s hot in this space.
[blog] Decoding the difference: artifacts vs packages in software development. Words mean things, and jumbling them up doesn’t help anyone. Here’s some clarity on what artifacts and packages are.
[blog] Using Google Cloud’s new Pricing API. It’s not unusual to have an API to return list prices. But I like that this new APi shows account-specific pricing that factors in discounts and such.
[article] HashiCorp’s software license turns realpolitik. Matt explores the licensing dust-up from last week. I get his points, and he’s probably right about parts of it. But I don’t like the license shift after a project finds mass appeal, and when the contributing company is doing great financially. Neither does Steven.
[blog] Announcing Direct VPC egress for Cloud Run: better performance and lower costs. Great feature that makes it much simpler for serverless devs to access private resources.
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