Daily Reading List – September 5, 2023 (#155)

Those of us in the States had yesterday off, and I spent most of it watching baseball with friends and family. It was a nice way to recharge my batteries. Lots of AI content came across my feed today, so that’s what you’re getting.

[article] Google goes all in on the AI cloud. Good recap of our event last week.

[article] Should you build or buy generative AI? This offers a good exploration of the tradeoffs and benefits. Given how emerging everything is, I’d be cautious about doing something that puts you on an isolated path.

[blog] Expanding Duet AI, an AI-powered collaborator, across Google Cloud. Here’s the overview blog for this powerful new experience for cloud users. Docs are live too.

[article] What Is a Large Language Model? It’s ok if you don’t know the answer. This is still new territory. This post does a decent job of laying out the basics.

[article] Worse, but unique. The argument here is to ensure you’re different and unique with your strategy. I buy it.

[blog] If you want to address tech debt, quantify it first. Can you get number to back up your concerns about internal technical debt? This post looks at where to find them.

[blog] Introducing Duet AI in Apigee API Management and Application Integration. This looks exciting to me. Make API development and low-code integrations easier to build? Yes, please.

[blog] How to scale AI training to up to tens of thousands of Cloud TPU chips with Multislice. Even if you’ll never need this capability, read the post for the cool technical details on how we made it work.

[blog] Cloud Spanner Data Boost: Analyze operational data isolated from transactional workloads. How often have you over-provisioned your database or created replicas just so you could support analytical scenarios without interrupting transactional workloads? All the time? It’s sorta awesome that Spanner now lets you simplify all that.

[blog] Questions, shrugs and what comes next: A quarter century of change. 25 years of Google! Sheesh, I remember using it in beta during my senior year of college. Few companies have made a larger global impact, and the best is still yet to come.

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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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