Daily Reading List – May 14, 2024 (#318)

Whew. Today was an excellent day at Google I/O and I left inspired and exhausted. Between Cloud Next and now I/O, I need a conference break. But I’ll tell you, I wouldn’t exchange platforms or potential with any other cloud right now. We’re in a terrific spot.

[blog] Google I/O 2024 recap: Making AI accessible and helpful for every developer. We announced and/or released many new things today, and this is worth a skim if you care about modern apps.

[article] Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky steps down; senior exec Matt Garman named AWS CEO. Wow, big change for our friends at AWS. Corey thinks its a good move. Maybe! I sure like having a product-thinker and engineering mind leading Google Cloud. Also, OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist moves on. Lots of musical chairs today!

[blog] Machine Learning on GCP: From Notebooks to Pipelines. This author says that too many folks think AI can be purely addressed with notebooks instead of proper real ML pipelines.

[blog] 4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time. I’m pretty chipper, but even I’m not happy all the time. Nonetheless, Eric offers a few ways to re-program yourself to bias towards happiness.

[blog] Strategy as a Series of Beliefs. The answer to ‘what is strategy?” won’t be the same if you ask two “experts” in the domain. I like how Dave broke down this way of thinking.

[article] How Do You Measure Developer Experience? Generic guidance on dev productivity or experience doesn’t really land with me. Rather, I want to see it grounded in a real-life scenario. That’s what you’ll find here.

[article] 100X Scaling: How Figma Scaled its Databases. Learn how Figma sharded their database and the benefits they saw as a result.

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