Daily Reading List – April 9, 2024 (#294)

Day 1 of Google Cloud Next is in the books. The opening keynote was outstanding, and we announced technology (and customer stories) that I found inspiring. Tomorrow morning’s keynote (10:30am PT) features more shenanigans because I’m involved. Tune in!

[blog] Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘24. This kickoff blog from Thomas sets the stage by listing out the major announcements we made today.

[blog] Powering Google Cloud with Gemini. Brad explains what an AI-assisted cloud looks like with services across app development, databases, analytics, security, and more.

[blog] Ushering in a new era for app developers. So much good stuff for developers. Gabe’s post recaps everything from dev tooling to new partnerships.

[blog] What’s new with Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer architecture. The vertical integration here at Google Cloud is unique and powerful. Among other things, Mark announces TPU/GPU updates and new open source software.

[blog] Introducing Google Axion Processors, our new Arm-based CPUs. This is our first one of these, and looks to be a difference-maker.

[blog] The container platform for the next decade of AI and beyond. Cloud Run and GKE form the best container platform you’ll find anywhere. These are terrific updates for builders and those running (AI) workloads at scale.

[blog] What’s new and what’s next for Google Cloud databases. I like the changes we’ve made for database users who are writing queries or managing fleets.

[blog] What’s next for data analytics at Google Cloud Next ’24. The BigQuery updates are outstanding, including the new continuous queries.

[blog] Google Cloud announces updates to Gemini, Imagen, Gemma and MLOps on Vertex AI. Get your hands on Gemini 1.5 Pro and that giant context window. Also check out new grounding capabilities and prompt management experiences.

[blog] Announcing Vertex AI Agent Builder: Helping developers easily build and deploy gen AI experiences. Build and orchestrate custom agents to make generative AI apps more contextual and relevant for your users.

[blog] Gemma Family Expands with Models Tailored for Developers and Researchers. Now access and use our high-performing open model that offers coding assistance.

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Author: Richard Seroter

Richard Seroter is currently the Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud and leads the Developer Relations program. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former InfoQ.com editor plus former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. As Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud, Richard leads the team of developer advocates, developer engineers, outbound product managers, and technical writers who ensure that people find, use, and enjoy Google Cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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