I’m taking off tomorrow and Thursday to accompany my daughter on an overnight school field trip to our state capitol. It’ll be … something. But I’m fairly sure this is one of those moments I’ll look back on in 20 years and be grateful I took the time off. The Reading List will be back on Friday!
[article] Why most AI benchmarks tell us so little. All these “we’re best at measure X or Y” claims for LLMs are impressive, but what does it really convey about how people use these models?
[article] How to Succeed When You’re Not the Boss’s Favorite. Useful advice. It’s naive to think that we don’t have people in our families or at work that we prefer to spend time with. But managers have to be careful to check for bias.
[blog] Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure. Simply absurd scale, but there are a handful of companies that need this level of capacity to serve the world.
[paper] Retrieval-Augmented Generation for AI-Generated Content: A Survey. If you’re going from “curious” about RAG to studying it deeply, this seems like a useful paper to review.
[blog] Introducing Security Command Center Enterprise: The first multicloud risk management solution fusing AI-powered SecOps with cloud security. There are some impressive capabilities here which should help keep you safer, regardless of what cloud you use.
[blog] Great Marketing Machines Are Like Costco. Just like there’s not one thing that makes Costco amazing, a complex system like a marketing engine doesn’t have a single lever.
[article] JPL’s Voyager team ‘extremely hopeful’ after ailing, faraway craft shows signs of former self. One of mankind’s greatest machines carries on, and might be on the mend.
[blog] Processing One Billion Rows in PHP! That one billion row challenges comes to PHP? Sure, why not. The author does a good job continuously refining the work.
[article] Costs, not security, worry enterprise leaders most as cloud estates multiply. Not surprising, and it’s not a binary choice; you can be cost conscious while also diligent about security.
[blog] Tips for Getting Un-Stuck on a Blogging Journey. It’s not hard to fall out of rhythm when blogging or writing! I liked this post about how to get back on track.
[blog] Chess.com boosts performance, cuts response times by 71% with Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus. For live gaming companies, every millisecond of latency counts. Heres a story of database optimization.
[blog] From ESB to Cloud Native: Building Modern Integrations. Is today’s event broker or even cloud-based messaging service wildly different from a classic ESB? In some respects, but it’s still possible to use modern shiny tech to craft a centralized service with lots of coupling.
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