Spent today at Google Cloud’s sales kickoff event, and enjoyed the stories and strategies I heard. It’s useful for product and engineering folks to hear what motivates sales teams, and gain empathy about their roles.
[article] Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples. Starting to really pay attention to measuring or improving dev productivity at your company? Check this out to learn how others do it.
[blog] Architects: Jump In To Generative AI. The post is a teaser for a subscriber-only Forrester report, but there are callouts here that are useful for architects to consider.
[blog] Intro to Sidecars. Kaslin does a terrific job explaining these “extra” containers that perform tasks in Kubernetes.
[blog] Standardize your cloud billing data with the new FOCUS BigQuery view. FOCUS is a FinOps data standard for cloud cost, billing, and usage data that is supported by major vendors including Google, Microsoft, and AWS. We just created a new BigQuery view for analyzing cost data in a spec-compliant way.
[article] Bank of America CEO on digital transformation: ‘There’s always more to go’. Those big investments are important. And you’re never done. What you newly released last year will need updating soon!
[article] Pinecone’s vector database just got a lot cheaper. While lots of existing database engines have added vector support, you still may want a best-of-breed option. Now it’s “serverless.”
[article] DeepMind’s latest AI can solve geometry problems. I don’t remember much geometry, so I have no doubt that this AI model is better than me. It also seems better than most!
[blog] Staying in the Zone: How DoorDash used a service mesh to manage data transfer, reducing hops and cloud spend. It’s gotten fairly easy to turn on cloud features that activate multi-AZ or multi-region capabilities. But there are cost (and legal) scenarios where you want to keep that to a minimum. Here’s how DoorDash set up a mesh to limit data costs.
[blog] Personalized Service Health is now generally available: Get started today. I’m glad we’re making it easier for customers to know which disruptions apply to them. Do it in the mobile app too.
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