I spent most of today allowing the “unread” number in my inbox to grow as I attended meetings that required my full attention. For an “inbox zero” person, that’s painful. But fortunately the last half hour of the day included some productive catch-up. Enjoy your weekend!
[blog] BigQuery Vector Search using Python SDK, Gemini and Langchain on GCP. Good walkthrough of using a public dataset to experiment with creating and storing embeddings before running the queries that use them.
[blog] Intuit Runs Gameday Simulations to Test Resilience of Critical Business Systems and Apps at Scale. Do you run these types of exercises to test out your incident response process, runbooks, and system resilience?
[blog] Secure Randomness in Go 1.22. Geeky read, but a good one if you care about secure code.
[blog] Private networking patterns to Vertex AI workloads. Your best option for performant, innovative, and complete AI stacks is in the cloud. But what are the right patterns for securely interfacing with those services? This post is about networking.
[article] How Slack automates deploys. Good post that looks at some recent work Slack did to improve dev experience and how they do release management.
[blog] Dear Satya Nadella: Why Are You Whitewashing the Microsoft China Cybersecurity Crisis? Security has been an issue at Microsoft for a bit. Maybe Satya’s serious about it now?
[blog] Introducing Honeycomb for Frontend Observability: Get the Data You Need for Actionable Customer Experience Improvements. If you’re going to explore unknown unknowns, you need access to all sorts of places to explore.
[blog] Simulate a zone failure in GKE regional clusters. You know what shouldn’t be unknown? How your app responds when it loses a cloud zone. This is a good guide for how to simulate that scenario.
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