Daily Reading List – July 30, 2024 (#366)

Today was the opposite of yesterday. Only a handful of quick meetings, and a lot of time to get other work done. I’m so used to days full of meetings that ones like today feel weird. You?

[blog] How Google uses AI to reduce stop-and-go traffic on your route — and fight fuel emissions. Smarter stoplights? That’s some AI that we can all rally around.

[blog] More enjoyable Code Reviews with Gemini. Cool post that explores a good portion of the code review process, and how to use AI and automation to make it better.

[blog] Java 21 Virtual Threads – Dude, Where’s My Lock? This post from the Netflix engineering team goes deep into how they diagnosed a deadlock issue with Java virtual threads.

[paper] Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models. To my untrained eye, this looks like a fairly transparent paper from Apple into how they built and evaluated their foundation model.

[repo] Kratos. There’s no shortage of web frameworks for most every programming language. Go seems to be getting more and more of them. This one is popular, and looks fairly rich.

[article] Gen AI Increases Workloads and Decreases Productivity, Upwork Study Finds. Spicy! This (apparently controversial) survey shows a disconnect between executives and employees on productivity benefits, and workers aren’t getting help after having tools shoved at them.

[blog] Anatomy of a great principle. Brian looks at guiding principles and what makes a good one. With bonus example included from his world of enterprise architecture.

[blog] Google Cloud Private Marketplace, now GA, helps control costs and maintain governance. Get more control over what your folks can install in the cloud.

[blog] Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It. Meaty post from Steve with a lot of context and guidance for how disruption plays out.

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