Daily Reading List – May 15, 2024 (#319)

After yesterday at Google I/O, I was in Vegas today for a Gartner conference. It’s been a wonderful chance to learn from “regular” folks with normal tech challenges.

[blog] Google I/O 2024: An I/O for a new generation. Here’s a good overview of I/O based on Sundar’s keynote.

[blog] Sociotechnical Maestros with Gene Kim. Listen to the podcast, or read the transcript here. Product wizard John talks to DevOps and culture guru Gene about empowerment, vision, and other considerations for high performing teams.

[paper] Global deployment with Compute Engine and Spanner. What does it look like to build a globally available system with VMs and databases? Here’s a complete reference guide.

[blog] Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit. New, and better open AI models now ready to use.

[article] Why and How Teams Are Replacing External Database Caches. Are separate caches uncool now? Are databases performant enough? This post looks at some examples.

[blog] What’s new in Firebase at I/O 2024. Firebase came out STRONG at Google I/O. You’ve got Firebase App Hosting for serverless compute beneath your Next.js or Angular app, a nifty-looking relational database offering, new integrations with the Vertex AI platform, and the new Genkit for building generative AI apps.

[blog] Done is Better Than Perfect. On one hand, this is how you get technical debt. But on the other, sometimes those efforts at perfection create more debt and negative business impact.

[blog] Introducing VideoFX, plus new features for ImageFX and MusicFX. These are wild tools for creative folks to use when building what they love.

[article] “Developers should own security. And test in production.” I saw a lot of “shift left” content today. Observability apparently needs to shift left too. Or, let’s have platforms do more, by shifting down.

[blog] Vertex AI at I/O: Bringing new Gemini and Gemma models to Google Cloud customers. Context caching is a big deal. And the updated tools for those building agents are great.

[article] Three Reasons DevOps Should Consider Rocky Linux 9.4. I like what this team is doing, and you should definitely consider Rocky Linux as a distribution.

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