We’re in the midst of our employee review period, which we do quarterly. At first, I really disliked this regular “check in” process which felt neverending to me. But now I’ve seen the usefulness of forcing ongoing conversations about performance and goals throughout the org. We course-correct faster, and there should be fewer surprises during the “annual review.” How often do you have formal check-ins with your manager?
[blog] The Fairytale Narrative: Structured strategic planning. Storytelling isn’t just for “creatives” who make art. It’s what separates good technologists from exceptional ones.
[article] KubeCon NA 2023: Ishan Sharma on Real-Time Generative AI for Gaming Apps Running on Kubernetes. Out of necessity, gaming companies often adopt new tech quickly so they can find ways to scale better and offer exciting capabilities. Here’s a look at options for supporting Generative AI with gaming apps running on Kubernetes.
[blog] Clean Up Code Cruft. When you permit incremental disorder and decay to continue, you end up with a real mess. This post encourages us to keep our codebase tidy.
[article] Cloud Native Users Struggle to Achieve Benefits, Report Says. Doing “cloud-native” or “modern” software isn’t a matter of buying a particular product or hiring a certain person. Without a fundamental change in culture and tools, it’ll be tough. The investment is worth it.
[blog] Minimum viable *. Deconstruct big problems, create some value, learn, and iterate. Brian says we can apply the MVP approach to all sorts of other areas too.
[blog] GenAI apps: Deploy LangChain on Cloud Run with LangServe. These are two technologies that are designed to make hard things easier. I like seeing the pairing.
[blog] Alternatives To Product Managers. One way or another, you’re doing product management. You may have product owners, or program managers, or engineers playing the role. This post looks at the alternatives, and why the real thing matters.
[blog] Multi-language libraries and samples for GenAI in Vertex AI. Why should Python devs have all the fun? Whether you know Java, C#, Go, Ruby or whatever, we’re making it easier to use generative AI.
[blog] Send Event from SAP to Pub/Sub: Enabling SAP as a Pub/Sub Publisher. Here’s a good post on routing events from SAP. And a related post on sending events into SAP.
[blog] At GitHub Universe, Copilot Takes Center Stage, But Questions About The Platform Persist. Forrester gives kudos to some great work by GitHub on their AI assistant. They also point out areas where more is needed to be truly useful in the enterprise.
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