Finished the week mostly caught up and ready for the weekend. I’m trying to finish writing a tech blog post for publication here, but my demo app is misbehaving. Hopefully better luck this weekend.
[article] How To Measure Platform Engineering. This article proposes using a series of specific metrics to measure how useful your platform is for developers and the business overall.
[blog] How to Implement OAuth 2.0 into a Golang App. I’ll be honest with you, authentication protocols (SAML, OAuth, OIDC) are not my love language. I like my security stuff to be as invisible as possible. But this is a good walkthrough of the plumbing.
[blog] IAM so lost: A guide to identity in Google Cloud. Relatedly, identity management is my kryptonite. It’s easy for it to kill my momentum when building an app. However, I liked the way it was explained in this post.
[blog] How to Run Hugging Face Models Programmatically Using Ollama and Testcontainers. It’s been interesting to watch how the Docker team has leveraged their acquisition of AtomicJar (testcontainers). Posts like this make me think this was a great match.
[docs] From multi-cluster edge to mesh: Globally distributed applications exposed through GKE Gateway and Cloud Service Mesh. I read through this brand new architecture guide that shows you how to build a resilient architecture with Kubernetes clusters and a service mesh.
[article] CIOs resist vendor-led AI hype, seeking out transparency. Make good choices, pick tech for the right reasons. But it’s also interesting to read this take where CIOs are saying their being too cautious on using generative AI. I don’t know what to believe anymore.
[blog] Firebase Just Got Smarter: Meet Your New AI Development Assistant. This offers a deeper dive into the AI assistance included in this mobile and app platform.
[article] Barriers to AI adoption. So good. This summary of a recent research paper provides such a relatable set of concerns that AI superfans need to consider as they try to grow adoption.
[blog] Google BigQuery vs. Snowflake: A head-to-head comparison of cloud data warehouses. Here’s a fairly massive deep-dive into these two platforms, with details that may help you choose the right one for your situation.
[paper] Speculative RAG: Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation through Drafting. This new paper proposes a different RAG framework that can increase accuracy and decrease latency.
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