We had some fun news today—more AI models that everyone can use—but lots of other things are going on too. My reading list rarely includes “news”; I skim those headlines, but I care more about long-form pieces that teach me something. Today’s list is mostly about those items.
[blog] Gemma: Introducing new state-of-the-art open models. This made some news today. These new lightweight models from Google are ready to use and high quality. News coverage here, and another blog post about running Gemma in Google Cloud is here.
[blog] Formula Pie Charts in Google Sheets. Who doesn’t like pie? This is a cool way to get mini pie charts in the rows of your spreadsheet.
[blog] The Best of Both Angular Worlds: Standalone & Modules Combined. Admittedly, front-end frameworks still intimidate me. Just give me some JavaScript and CSS and I’m happy. Angular has gotten easier to use over the years, and this post is a good example.
[blog] Web frameworks we are most excited for in 2024. Why am I reading so much today on web frameworks? I dunno. But this is a useful look at some of the ones with growing mindshare.
[article] The State of Jamstack: Developers Want Return to Simplicity. Speaking of frameworks, there was also some bloat to the world of static sites and JavaScript. Looks like a return to simplicity is on the way.
[article] Kubernetes Predictions Were Wrong. I remember when folks (and I likely said it myself) claimed that Kubernetes would be invisible by now. Just melted into the infrastructure and only a few folks would care about it. Not the case, at least not yet.
[blog] Stable Diffusion WebUI on GKE Autopilot. You can do awesome things with Kubernetes. Such as running the text-to-image Stable Diffusion experience.
[blog] A Brief History of Dependency Management in Go. Brief indeed. But, I liked the described evolution of how Go handled dependencies.
[blog] Serverless data architecture for trade surveillance at Deutsche Bank. Serverless (or fully-managed) systems aren’t just for lightweight scenarios. Deutsche Bank uses this for a key regulatory scenario.
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