Daily Reading List – February 16th, 2024 (#261)

Took a 16.5 hour flight today to get from Delhi to Newark. Then tomorrow morning I’ll fly home to California. Thank goodness for solid airplane wifi! Check out my reading list from today’s flight.

[blog] Feel the Next ‘24 love: Full session library is now live. We’re getting closer to Cloud Next, our biggest event of the year. The session catalog is outstanding with tons of deep technical content.

[article] How to Stay Grounded Through Organizational Chaos. If you’re surrounded by stability, that’s great. That’s not typical nowadays. This is a good article about how to handle turbulence at work.

[blog] Your RAGs powered by Google Search technology, part 1. Here’s a very detailed post (and part 2) on using a Google-quality search in LLM and RAG-based apps.

[blog] Tool of First Resort: Israel-Hamas War in Cyber. Our security team shares information about the cyber threats we’ve monitored in the Middle East.

[blog] What is a long context window? Maybe there’s less need for RAG if you can stuff most of the necessary supporting info into the model’s context window. Learn more about what that means.

[article] 10 ways generative AI will transform software development. This is a substantive post that explores a few ways AI will shake up the SDLC and software overall.

[blog] Introducing vector search in BigQuery. Perform vector similarity searches on BigQuery data. There’s no data service anywhere quite like BigQuery.

[article] Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention. Neha shares an interesting perspective about types of fraud, the evolution of detection, and how generative AI may improve our chances.

[blog] Angular v17.2 is now available. Good summary of the new release of this popular frontend web framework. Related post on new Material 3 support.

[blog] Supercharge your apps with Firebase and the Gemini API. New extensions for Firebase make it easier to build your own chatbot or consume Gemini’s multimodal endpoint.

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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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