Daily Reading List – February 12th, 2024 (#258)

Greetings from India! 32 hours of travel later, I was mostly raring to go. Today was an office day and it was great meeting teammates and hearing about what matters most to them. Tomorrow, we’ve got a hands-on generative AI event with WAY too many people signed up to attend.

[blog] The next chapter of our Gemini era. So this was a big deal last week, and I caught up on the posts today. New models, unified branding, and a vertical integration that’s unmatched in the industry. More here.

[blog] Analyzing customer feedback at scale — from Google Sheets to BigQuery!. Alicia previously demonstrated using cloud spreadsheets to do sentiment analysis, and now she’s upgraded to BigQuery. Good post.

[blog] How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years. This is NOT how I write HTTP service in Go because I’m not very good at it. I learned a dozen things while reading this.

[blog] Medical Text Processing on Google Cloud. This is where AI seems clearly helpful. Doing OCR, document processing, and classification is a real use case.

[article] Get started with Flask 3.0. I don’t really know or use Python (yet), but this was a good read for learning about this popular web framework.

[blog] Cut Container Startup Time for Better Performance and Costs — Part1. When I’m first learning a technology, I’m not obsessed with optimization. It’s just about getting the fundamentals down. But once you do—in this case, with Kubernetes—it’s worthwhile to know the “right” way to set things up.

[site] Prompt Engineering Guide: Gemini Advanced. This site offers prompt guidance for a number of popular LLMs. This new page shows some of the powerful features of Gemini.

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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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