Today’s my birthday, and I enjoyed a productive day at work, and hopefully, I’ll have a fun evening with the family. It’s a gift to take another lap around the sun, and I try to keep perspective of what’s really important in life!
[blog] Navigate The Seas Of Developer Experience. I’m seeing a volume increase from the big analyst firms on the topic of developer experience. Which means enterprises are hearing the same thing. Forrester did some good work exploring the various stakeholders of dev ex.
[blog] A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Chaos Testing. How do you know if your event-driven system can handle failure? This post from Yugabyte offers up a good list of server-side and client-side chaos scenarios to test a change data capture process.
[youtube-video] Fine Tune Palm 2 + How to make a dataset. 15+ minute video that makes AI model fine-tuning feel less scary.
[blog] Bun: lessons from disrupting a tech ecosystem. Funding and focus make a difference, as does a freedom to try new things without concerns about breaking existing customers.
[blog] Distilling step-by-step: Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller model sizes. Blog and paper that looks at a new approach to building smaller, high performing models without the need for so much training data.
[youtube-video] Build AI-powered apps on Vertex AI with LangChain. Lots of folks watched this video over the weekend and learned about building generative AI apps.
[article] 5 Types of Stories Leaders Need to Tell. Storytelling isn’t natural for everyone, and can feel like “fluff” that gets in the way of explaining what needs to be done. But if you notice that folks don’t follow your lead, it may be because you haven’t painted the picture to move them.
[article] From Cloud-Hosted to Cloud-Native. Using cloud services as hosted versions of on-prem software rarely makes anyone happy. This talk and transcript looks at moving to a more modern architecture.
[blog] BYO Service Mesh on GKE Autopilot. There’s always a tug between fully-managed products and the desire for low-level configurations. Somehow, GKE Autopilot made this possible for Kubernetes in a useful way.
[article] Why Is It So Hard to Leave a Bad Job? I like my job, but we’ve all been in a place where we wanted to make a change. These are good reasons, and mitigation for concerns, for switching.
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