It’s Halloween here in the States, so I’ll be walking my kiddos around the neighborhood to collect candy. I’ll be “taxing” my kid’s haul when they go to bed. Before you consume a lot of chocolate, read a few of the items below!
[article] Measure Developer Joy, Not Productivity, Says Atlassian Lead. Good perspectives in this New Stack article. I’m glad to see such quality discussion on the topic of dev experience.
[blog] Global Developers Share How They Use Inclusive Design. I like stories about the tools people use, and how they approach topic like accessibility.
[blog] Grammar checking at Google Search scale. Very cool stuff. How do we respond to your request to run a grammar check as part of your search?
[article] Offline and Thriving: Building Resilient Applications with Local-First Techniques. Can your system work without an Internet connection? How would you design differently for offline-first, or local-first, requirements?
[blog] A Beginner’s Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This is a useful overview of the concept, and how it differs from fine-tuning an AI model.
[blog] From RDS to self-managed SQL Server. Use managed services where you can, but when it makes more sense to manage software yourself, pick a place that gives you great price/performance.
[blog] SQL-only ML Predictions in Spanner with Vertex AI Integration. Calling ML models from within SQL queries seems powerful. Good example here.
[article] Tech leaders react to White House executive order on AI. We’ll see what happens as a result of this, but it’s good to see a mix of companies giving positive responses. More here.
[article] Here’s One Golden Path to Build an MVP Enterprise IDP. Many folks are building internal developer platforms, and there’s no consensus on exactly what that looks like. But things like this help spark discussion.
[blog] More help with math and science problems in Search. We have amazing tools at our disposal now to learn and explore. It doesn’t mean we don’t have to “know” as much, but helps us understand things more deeply.
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