Folks on my team are analyzing (digital) watering holes where developers hang out. There’s no one place! It seems to differ by experience, region, and whether you’re in a big company or a freelancer. What are your top three hangouts? Tell me in the comments.
[paper] Searching for Best Practices in Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Good paper that expresses opinions after an investigation of techniques and practices for RAG with LLMs.
[blog] Vertex AI Studio vs. Google AI Studio: Choosing the Right AI Tool for Your Startup. We offer a couple of different surfaces today for those building with AI. I thought this was a solid comparison.
[blog] State of the Cloud 2024. I’m not ready to start using “AI Cloud” as a term, but what are tech leaders and investors thinking about the future of cloud? This report sheds some light.
[article] You could learn a lot from a CIO with a $17B IT budget. JPMorgan Chase has a massive IT budget and team, and does a ton of meaningful work. Here’s a good story about their approach.
[blog] Building PDF Open Source Services with Angular & GCP — Handling long processing tasks. Yesterday’s reading list contained an item about long-running HTTP requests. This post shows a real implementation of such a pattern.
[article] Creating Stability Is Just as Important as Managing Change. I work in a fairly dynamic place where things change often to meet the changing market needs. This post on “stability management” is important for those that don’t want to overly unnerve teams during times of change.
[blog] Optimizing CI with Bazel and Kaniko in Cloud Build. Bazel is used by lots of folks as a flexible build tool. This post goes keep into how to use it with a cloud-based CI tool.
[blog] Meta’s approach to machine learning prediction robustness. Learn more about how the Meta Ads business delivers a reliable and high-quality ML predictions solution.
[blog] Get started with Gemma on Ray on Vertex AI. Do some fine-tuning of the newest open Gemma model and see what the steps look like.
[article] The Big Interview: Solo.io CEO Idit Levine gets “Ambient.” I don’t see many long-form interviews of tech folks anymore, so this was refreshing. It’s a good read about a leader and space that’s evolved over time.
[article] 8 reasons developers love Go—and 8 reasons they don’t. Love and hate are strong emotions, but better than feeling “meh” about something. These are valid reasons you’ll like or dislike Go.
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