Daily Reading List – June 28, 2024 (#349)

I’m glad to be home after a busy work week out of town. I’m a single dad next week while my wife and son are on a trip together, so I’m taking it as vacation. I’ll be back with this reading list on July 8th!

[blog] Making Vertex AI the most enterprise-ready generative AI platform. Lots of news here, including Gemini 1.5 Flash going GA, Gemini 1.5 Pro introducing 2 million input tokens, the Imagen 3 image-generation model is in preview, context caching, provisioned throughput, and much more.

[blog] Google Cloud expands grounding capabilities on Vertex AI. There’s a really good story here for those building low-code or code-based AI agents.

[blog] 5 Myths About Zero Trust in the Cloud, Busted. There’s a vendor angle here, but it’s still a useful look at zero trust if you’re unfamiliar with the idea.

[blog] Doubling calculation speed and other new innovations in Google Sheets. I might spend more time in Google Sheets than VS Code. That’s not a flex; it’s a cry for help. But, it’s a good thing I like Sheets.

[blog] Open challenges for AI engineering. Great presentation and writeup from Simon that looks at what’s new in AI and open challenges for the industry.

[blog] Gemma 2 is now available to researchers and developers. This open model has proven fairly popular, and the new version is performant, fast, and efficient.

[blog] Developer Experience Is Still Developing. Forrester folks have been doing solid research into developer experience, and this post teases a new report they have. Worth reading!

[blog] How to: Build a Chat Web Application with Streamlit, Cloud Run and Gemini Flash. Very straightforward demo, and it shows off the power of APIs, frameworks, and serverless.

[blog] Deploy Python pipelines on Kubernetes using the Flink runner. If you want to geek out on data streaming this weekend, you could try following along with this post.

[blog] My 5 favorite ways of keeping the technical axe sharp. How do you stay on top of things? Maybe reading this daily list is one of your strategies. This post looks at a few ways to stay sharp.

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