Daily Reading List – April 30, 2024 (#308)

Travel day as I jetted up to Sunnyvale for a week of meetings. The year is 1/3 over after tomorrow, so hopefully you’re tracking towards some of your 2024 goals!

[article] DevEx Success: How Pfizer Scaled to 1,000 Engineers. Building a great developer experience for an individual team is wonderful, and not trivial. Scaling that to hundreds or thousands? Entirely different problem. This article has good advice.

[article] The IBM-HashiCorp coupling could be more complicated than it seems. This acquisition definitely got folks talking. Here’s another perspective from TechCrunch. And Forrest wrote a thing too.

[blog] Level Up your RAG: Tuning Embeddings on Vertex AI. Can you bubble up the most relevant answers from an LLM through tuning? Ivan has a deep dive here.

[blog] Long document summarization with Workflows and Gemini models. Map/reduce for big documents you’re trying to summarize with generative AI? I like this pattern.

[article] Is DevOps just a conspiracy theory? A bit of a tongue in cheek post, but related to an important question about what DevOps is really about.

[blog] From Assistant to Analyst: The Power of Gemini 1.5 Pro for Malware Analysis. Does the giant context window of the Gemini model help with reverse engineering malware? Looks like it.

[article] Google’s Gemini beats GPT-4, Llama 2 in model grading test. The “best” is a fast-changing label, but I’m glad Gemini is currently doing well compared to peers.

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