Today was another day in an offsite meeting, with 7+ hours of strategy talk. Good times! I also had a chance to read some good content you’ll find below.
[paper] LLM As DBA. Could you train a large language model to perform basic database administrator activities like diagnosing problems? This paper explores a DBA “bot” and how it worked out.
[article] Bottleneck #04: Cost Efficiency. Is your new product’s cost outpacing its growth? That’s not uncommon when you are throwing resources at your initial experiments. This article has good guidance for how to step back and get costs under control.
[blog] Forward Compatibility and Toolchain Management in Go 1.21. The Go language team makes a lot of thoughtful choices, and this is another one.
[blog] Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI. It seems clearer now that generative AI was never going to replace search; it’s going to make it better.
[article] Becoming More Assertive: How to Express Yourself, Give Feedback, and Set Boundaries. Good article on what it means to be assertive. For some of you, this comes naturally. For others, we have to consciously do it!
[article] 6 Patterns for Platform Engineering Success. If your company is not already doing platform engineering work, you’re likely considering it. This article offers useful fundamentals.
[blog] Getting started with Ray on Google Kubernetes Engine. Ray is a popular framework for scaling Python/AI apps across a cluster. This post shows how to run this on GKE.
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