Daily Reading List – April 15, 2024 (#297)

I spent the weekend recovering from Cloud Next. I played some miniature golf, went to a Little League game, and took my daughter to a dance at her school. That band rocked hard (too hard?) for a bunch of kids, but all the dads appreciated the guitar solo in Boston’s “More Than a Feeling.”

[article] An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy. This was a fun read. Thomas deeply knows what he’s talking about, and I loved the insights shared here.

[blog] All 218 things we announced at Google Cloud Next ‘24 – a recap. Skim through to get a sense of what you can now do in Google Cloud. And, you’ll likely get a foreshadowing of what you’ll see from other clouds in the months and years ahead 🙂

[article] Build Your Culture Like a Product — Lessons from Asana’s Head of People. Do you think about intentionally building culture, or does it “just happen”? I liked the advice in this article.

[blog] Cybersecurity Isn’t Special. Wow, this piece stood out to me today. It’s full of assertive, edgy perspectives from someone credible enough to make these statements. Good read.

[blog] Introducing Beam YAML: Apache Beam’s First No-code SDK. It’s not unnatural to represent a data pipeline in a declarative fashion, so this makes sense to me.

[repo] Fix My Car. Here’s a complete reference app that you can deploy to try out retrieval augmented generation (RAG) on Google Cloud. Or, you can simply study the architecture to understand the components of such a system.

[article] 4 Reasons Why Managers Fail. It’s not because of skills! This article calls out the handful of ways that managers fail, and how you can prevent it.

[article] Generative AI’s ROI is a work in progress. Not yet settled, but the it’s not hard to see where value will come from.

[article] Uncovering the Seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation: Data Replication. The final update to this article is complete, and it walks us through change data capture and replication techniques.

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