We had our first in-person rehearsal for the Cloud Next ’24 developer keynote, and my stress level dropped a little bit. It feels good to be close to the finish line, and we have such a great team involved in it. Heading home now, and snuck in a bit of reading throughout the day.
[blog] The Future of Frontend is Already Here. This might be the best thing I read this week so far. Kate does an excellent job explaining the frontend landscape, and gave me a half dozen projects or companies I need to look at.
[blog] Why We Built a Write Back Cache for Our Asset Library with Google Cloud Spanner. The team at Squarespace wanted to improve some user and dev experiences, and wrote up an explanation of why (and how) they built a cache.
[blog] From whoami to whoarewe with GKE Workload Identity for Fleets. I like the ability to do identify federation across a set of Kubernetes clusters. Here’s more on how it works.
[blog] Analyzing the next token probabilities in large language models. How does an LLM pick the next word in a sentence? Read this for additional understanding.
[article] How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap. I thought this was a very good perspective on how to frame and prioritize work on technical debt.
[article] Tutorial: Using LangChain and Gemini to Summarize Articles. Jani put together a straightforward demo for you to see how you might use the popular LangChain framework to work with an LLM.
[blog] Listen hear: How designers create sounds for Pixel. We’re surrounded by things that involved thoughtful design, yet we may barely notice! One of those could be sounds on our phones.
[blog] Achieving Greatness Without Falling Apart. Elite performers are often very competitive, but also grounded in a way that the quest can be as fulfilling as the “win.”
[blog] Practical Tutorial to Retrieval Augmented Generation on Google Colab. Good demo that anyone can follow along with to try out RAG with Anthropic models.
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