Tuesday is done here in Bangalore, and my day started at 330am with a work call. That sort of thing gives me fresh recognition for how West Coast folks need to be more considerate of others! The rest of the day was great, and I had a good time learning from customers and presenting at our AI roadshow.
[blog] The Return of the Pendulum: Consolidation is Here. If you are part of this industry for long enough, you see these swings between specialized products/platforms, and consolidated ones. Stephen is seeing us move back towards consolidation.
[article] Got a Radical Idea at Work? Find a Partner. It can be difficult, and tiring, to champion a disruptive change all by yourself. This HBR article encourages you to team up.
[article] Cynicism is the mind-killer. I’m annoyingly optimistic, not because there aren’t bad things that happen, but because a constantly-negative focus drains your soul. I’m glad my friend Forrest is pivoting his newsletter to focus more on inspiring and uplifting tech projects.
[blog] Beyond recall: Evaluating Gemini with Vertex AI Auto SxS. There’s a decent chance you’ll use more than one LLM at your company. How do you reasonably compare them? This new Vertex service makes it much easier.
[article] Why companies are leaving the cloud. Is it possible that folks are moving workloads around? Absolutely. Is there some mass exodus happening? No way. Vastly more is coming in than going out!
[article] Go language hits top 10 in the Tiobe index. I like seeing Go rise in popularity. It’s a great language that’s become my go-to.
[blog] Scaling Character.AI: How AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and Spanner met their growing needs. Have you played with Character.AI yet? They’re growing quickly and refactoring often. Here’s there’s current architecture, and where they want to go next.
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