Daily Reading List – February 15th, 2024 (#260)

Yesterday got away from me as we had a day of meetings in Bengaluru, and then flew to Delhi. Some travel snafus meant I arrived at my hotel after midnight. So today, you get a double edition!

[blog] Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5. Ultra is now available, and 1.5 will come with the same quality with less compute consumption. And, up to 1m input tokens.

[article] 3 Types of Overthinking — and How to Overcome Them. Are you an overthinker? I’m probably and under-thinker, which is it’s own problem. I thought this was a good piece on how to break out of churning thoughts.

[blog] Cloud without Kubernetes. Compared to traditional alternatives (managing a system across disparate VMs), Kubernetes is a clear step up. But it’s also over-kill for many scenarios too. Tyler has a pointy perspective on it, and encourages you to just use Cloud Run.

[blog] Using ChatGPT to Analyze Your Code? Not So Fast. Can AI-assisted products help us find code defects? This SEI study shows that ChatGPT correctly identified non-compliant code about 46.5% of the time.

[blog] How machine learning keeps contributed content helpful. It’s going to be harder to trust product reviews if we can’t tell AI-generated noise from legit insights. This Google post looks at how we’re fighting fake reviews.

[article] Is AI making our code stupid? You’ll want AI-assisted tooling for devs. But be thoughtful about how you use it!

[article] Mainframes solidify hold on core enterprise systems. Investments are staying the same or even going up in some cases. Modernization projects are poorly funded. It’s here to stay.

[blog] Cloud Monitoring now offers PromQL alerting and importing dashboards from Grafana. I like that our monitoring service is friendly to standard open source tools and specs. If you use Prometheus and Grafana, you’ll find a lot of usefulness here.

[article] How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems. How do you create reliability in your apps and APIs when you have very stateful services? This article/video explains the Netflix approach.

[blog] Product Leadership Theater. Marty has some pointed words to product leaders who blame senior execs for their struggles in their product organizations.

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