There wasn’t a ton of deep technical content in today’s reading list, but there was a lot of material that made me think. Especially the latter half of the links below.
[blog] The Top 10 Skills CISOs need in 2024. This says its for chief information security officers, but this advice works for anyone in a technical leadership role. Many of us should be investing in these areas!
[blog] How it’s Made – Exploring AI x Learning through ShiffBot, an AI experiment powered by the Gemini API. This is a cool project to show the “art of the possible” for LLMs having some personality.
[article] GitOps for Databases on Kubernetes. Are you putting databases on Kubernetes yet? If you’re in the public cloud, it’d be my second/third choice after “managed service.” But, it’s viable, and this post offers advice on automating lifecycle activities with GitOps.
[blog] Hugging Face and Google partner for open AI collaboration. This one makes a lot of sense, and is a win for ML users.
[article] How do subsea cables work? This story offers a cool, quick look at all that internet infrastructure at the bottom of the ocean.
[blog] We Need to Talk. I’ve learned that nowadays, when I ping someone who reports to me and say “do you have a second to chat?”, I need to follow up with “nothing bad.” Ted looks at how to share news with team members.
[blog] Introducing the New Fully Managed BigQuery Sink V2 Connector for Confluent Cloud: Streamlined Data Ingestion and Cost-Efficiency. The Confluent team revamped their Kafka connector for BigQuery, and it’s now faster and more cost-effective.
[article] When You Think You’re Doing Good Work — But Others Don’t. We’re in “annual review season” here at Google and this article felt timely. How do you handle cases where your work doesn’t seem to have landed like you thought it did?
[blog] RLHF Tuning with Vertex AI. Reinforcement learning from human feedback? It’s a proven way to tune a model using human interactions. This post teaches us about that, and links to more info.
[blog] The Power and Peril of Caring Deeply. Whether we’re talking work, hobbies, or sports fandom, be careful about getting too emotionally involved!
[blog] Productivity killers and boosters for software engineers. Which things destroy your daily productivity? This author calls out interruptions as a big one. He also covers what activities boost productivity each day.
[blog] Yes, good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data. Good developer experiences are the opposite of productivity killers. Here’s some fresh data from the GitHub team.
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