Happy Friday! I’ve bringing some work home with me this weekend, but I try to only mess with it while the family sleeps in. Dig into some good architectural and leadership pieces below.
[blog] Domain-specific AI apps: A three-step design pattern for specializing LLMs. Really good. This helps you compare three options (prompt engineering, RAG, and fine tuning) for customizing AI model output.
[site] Google Cloud Documentation. These types of sites “change” at most every few years. But we just published a massive update to our docs portal, and it offers easier navigation and better discoverability. Poke around!
[article] Kubernetes is (not) a cost optimization problem. There’s an angle here by someone offering a container alternative, but Matt knows Kubernetes and talks about where the costs come from.
[article] 3 Key Metrics to Measure Developer Productivity. This looks at task, time, and team metrics for figuring out if devs are doing their best work.
[blog] Transformation Theater. Maybe this post makes you feel unsettled because you see yourself or your company in a few of these. That’s ok. The first step is recognizing it. Then, you can fix it!
[article] An Introvert’s Guide to Visibility in the Workplace. Believe it or not, I’m introverted. This piece resonated with me, and reflects some things I do to get out of my comfort zone.
[blog] GKE provides fully managed Kubernetes support for Elastic Cloud. If you’re going to run packaged software atop Kubernetes, try and pick a fully managed k8s with no node maintenance. I like that Elastic and Hashicorp now support GKE Autopilot.
[article] What if we rotate pairs every day? What an interesting experiment! The ThoughtWorks folks tried a rapid rotation for their developer pairs, and shared their findings.
[blog] The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2024. We might see these sorts of rankings change over time with the introduction of AI-generated code. For now, the top five are stable, but there’s movement below that.
[article] Event Interception. Good post on a technique for modernizing a legacy system by intercepting application events and redirecting them to the new system.
[blog] DZ BANK unlocks 70% toil savings and 90% cost savings with a Cloud Run-first approach. Serverless computing at a 150 year-old German bank? This is a good story about using modern tech to modernize and save time/money.
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