On the way home after my quick trip to Silicon Valley. Besides internal meetings, I also did four customer briefings. Those discussions really ground me and help keep me focused on outcomes that matter!
[article] What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity? This post looks at a recent paper from Google and assesses the factors that contribute to dev productivity.
[blog] Saving Millions with 5-Minute Streaming SQL Techniques & Future-Proofing an Optimized Composable Data Ecosystem. Cool deep-dive post that explores how to save money in your streaming architecture without making big sacrifices to latency or correctness.
[blog] AlloyDB Omni, the downloadable edition of AlloyDB, is now generally available. Great announcement post with tons of details. Run this PostgreSQL database in the cloud or on-premises, and get premium performance and support.
[blog] Retrieval Augmented Generation at scale — Building a distributed system for synchronizing and ingesting billions of text embeddings. You don’t just “set up AI solutions” and then switch to the next thing. There’s a lot of continuous activity. Here’s a look at loading and syncing lots of data for RAG.
[blog] New Vertex AI Feature Store built with BigQuery, ready for predictive and generative AI. Cool new capability for those building predictive or gen AI solutions. Store your features, and simplify your architecture.
[blog] Quickly Reproducing Production Bug With Event Sourcing. I like the concept of this pattern, but haven’t personally seen it done live before. For those of you who do event sourcing, I’d be curious as to whether this is part of your playbook.
[blog] Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB, and with strong consistency and single-digit ms latency. It’s not only better than the alternatives, but also cheaper. What’s not to like?
[blog] Announcing Replit AI for All. AI assistance is certainly not a commodity yet, but long-term, I expect it to increasingly be a fundamental part of platforms versus an add-on.
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