Daily Reading List – November 16, 2023 (#206)

Flying home after a good week in Sunnyvale. Today I chatted with customers about how generative AI assists the dev experience, and, approaches to multicloud. I did demos for both, which was fun to put together.

[blog] Introducing a new Eventarc destination — internal HTTP endpoint in a VPC network. Every cloud offers some way to trigger events when changes happen to cloud services. Ours is called Eventarc, and now it supports routing events to custom HTTP endpoints.

[article] Is your tech stack making your team feel stuck? Apparently many folks feel like their tools can get in the way. I think all of us feel that way at one point or another. The key is how fast you can make changes.

[blog] Announcing .NET 8. The latest version of Microsoft’s programming language is out, and this post does a very good job of pointing out the highlights.

[blog] Scaling multimodal understanding to long videos. I don’t totally understand how all this worked, but creating multimodal models that understand long videos has major implications. More here.

[blog] Introduction to LangChain. Solid introduction to this technology that’s gotten quickly adopted by those building generative AI apps.

[blog] Memorystore for Redis Cluster is GA and provides up to 60 times more throughput and microseconds latency. Redis is mature and widely used, and I’m glad we’re offering a clustered service with a 99.99% SLA.

[blog] Are You Selling a Shovel – Or a Way to Dig a Hole? Doesn’t matter if you’re building APIs or web apps, internal or external products. Focus on the job to be done!

[blog] Data Intelligence Platforms. The smart folks at Databricks share their thoughts on how AI will change data platforms.

[blog] How we’ve created a helpful and responsible Bard experience for teens. This is cool to see. Nice job.

[article] The end of the standalone application. Microsoft’s trying to get their on-prem Office customers to switch to cloud subscriptions. Now they’re getting more pushy about it.

[article] AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent. Good decision by these companies to work together to help customers get a common view of billing data.

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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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