Last Friday we had the day off, so I walked around our local zoo by myself. It was great! But I’m back in the saddle today, and this promises to be a very busy week. There’s always time for reading though, so please enjoy what I consumed today.
[blog] Introducing the next generation of Claude. Anthropic has raised a ton of money, and they’re putting it to good use. Their new models have excellent performance. And we’ve already got one of those available in Vertex AI.
[article] Add More Rigor to Your Reference Calls With These 25 Questions. This is a good list of questions you might pick from when checking in on external or internal job candidates.
[docs] Configure networks for FedRAMP and DoD in Google Cloud. You might not need or want DoD-level of security in your network architecture, but it’s useful to see what it looks like for highly regulated workloads.
[blog] The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions. Folks are still experimenting with how fast their language of choice can process a billion rows of data. This is an excellent review of multiple options using Go.
[article] Apple Open Sources Pkl, a Configuration as Code Programming Language. Do we need another DSL for configurations? I dunno, but Apple seems to like this one.
[article] How to Get Started with Google’s Gemini Large Language Model. Janakiram always does good tech deep dives, and this look at Gemini is easy enough to follow along with.
[blog] 4 Reasons to Use Angular for Your Next Web App. Love it. There are good reasons, but I also appreciate the quiet confidence of those using something good, who aren’t personally crushed if you don’t make the same choice.
[blog] The four tenets of SOA revisited. yes, tech is changing faster now than likely at any time in history. But there are plenty of durable ideas that stick around. Mark is starting a look at service oriented architecture principles.
[article] “Good enough” code is just not good enough. There are times when “good enough” is ok, but continuously adopting that approach doesn’t yield excellence in the long run.
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