Today I recorded a podcast episode with the fine folks at Software Defined Talk while also doing my real job. Whatever that is. I also came across some good content that you’ll find below.
[article] How Google Cloud Is Leveraging Generative AI To Outsmart Competition. I don’t think Jani and I had met in person until last week, and he wrote up solid analysis about last week’s event.
[blog] Restricted Source Licensing Is Here. Forrester Research puts down some thoughts on open source licensing and what you should be thinking about.
[blog] Announcing BigQuery Studio — a collaborative analytics workspace to accelerate data-to-AI workflows. The number of activities you can perform without ever leaving the BigQuery interface is … impressive.
[article] Open Source Needs Maintainers. But How Can They Get Paid? I liked the reporting here, as it explores the challenges and current opportunities for protecting key open source projects and maintainers.
[blog] From Pre-trained to Fine-tuned: Nextdoor’s Path to Effective Embedding Applications. Deep dive into Nextdoor’s model training process and serving at scale.
[blog] All 161 things we announced at Google Cloud Next ‘23 – a recap. So many announcements, spanning technical areas, partnerships, and customers. Skim through to get a sense of it.
[article] Intro to Hapi: The Node.js framework. I’ve used Express with Node.js for a long time, but I’m tempted to give this a whirl.
[blog] Host a Secure Static Website using Cloud Run and Cloud Storage. You can serve up static sites from most object storage services, but if you want an extra layer of security, you might do something like this.
[article] Developers have doubts about WebAssembly, report finds. Lots of optimism about WebAssembly, still some concerns. The CNCF also shipped a new “landscape” diagram for Wasm.
[blog] 25 biggest moments in Search, from helpful images to AI. Fun look at the continuous evolution of the Google search experience. It’s hard to remember search before autocomplete!
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