23 years later, I still think about where I was the moment I heard that a plane crashed into the Twin Towers. Let’s never forget.
[youtube-video] Decoding Google Gemini with Jeff Dean. I liked this episode of the DeepMind podcast featuring our Chief Scientist. Jeff shares history, and future.
[article] Has Splitting Into ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Loops Sent DevOps to the Dark Ages? Has disproportional investment in dev activities impacted overall flow? Is the outer loop neglected and holding back progress? Interesting perspective here.
[blog] Kaggle Model Upload Made Easy. Millions of folks use Kaggle to try models, access datasets, compete in AI competitions, and more. This post looks at how you upload models.
[blog] Inside Expedia’s Migration to ScyllaDB for Change Data Capture. Good story from Expedia on why and how they migrated to a different database engine. That’s a BIG exercise, but it seems they did it well.
[repo] Automatic Password Rotation. Do you regularly rotate your database passwords? Is that a manual or automated process? This reference architecture (and IaC scripts) shows you how to do it.
[blog] NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources. This seems like related to tech to what I shared yesterday (Illuminate). Super cool stuff.
[article] Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model. Models that can handle text, audio, and images are valuable. You’ll likely see more of them, and now Mistral joins the party.
[article] Oracle Database is in many enterprises and now it’s in Google Cloud too. Oracle’s had a good week. They’ve got strong partnerships with each hyperscaler and seem to have some good momentum.
[blog] How to build a custom Gmail Add-on w/ Gemini to find dates 📅. Fun example app from Zack. Use this to extract potential calendar appointments from the contents of an email.
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