Today is my birthday. It’s not a number divisible by ten, so by Patton Oswalt’s rules, I shouldn’t be celebrating. Nonetheless, I had a great day, and appreciate the gift of another trip around the sun.
[site] Celebrating Popcorn. Today’s “Google Doodle” is a playable game that’s pretty fun. It’s also powered by Google Cloud and some open source software, which is pretty cool.
[blog] How we optimized LLM use for cost, quality, and safety to facilitate writing postmortems. You don’t want LLMs writing a postmortem on your behalf; these are learning opportunities following an incident. This Datadog post looks at how LLMs can assist, while not taking away from the primary objective.
[article] Harness aims to accelerate enterprise software development with AI agents. These folks are doing some cool work to address more of the app lifecycle besides just coding assistance.
[guide] Best practices for using CMEKs. I didn’t wake up today hoping to learn more about customer-managed encryption keys. But, this is well-written, and covers an important topic.
[blog] Moving from experimentation into production with Gemini and Vertex AI. I like a few things here. Structured output of LLM responses is GA, the batch API (send in lots of prompts) looks cool, and this prompt optimizer capability could be a big deal.
[blog] 10 Rules for Sustaining Excellence. This is excellent advice for becoming someone who is consistently good at what they do.
[blog] Lots of new cool Gemini stuff in LangChain4j 0.35.0. Guillaume keeps introducing more useful features into this LangChain-like library for Java devs.
[article] Stop Blaming Regulation for Poor Software Delivery Performance. Each industry has its own dynamics, but release sluggishness is a choice, not a mandate of any industry.
[article] Most mainframe application rewrites fail the first time. Some depressing stats here, unless you’re in the mainframe business.
[blog] Google Cloud files complaint with European Commission regarding Microsoft’s anti-competitive licensing practices. Sometimes, this the route you have to go. Windows runs great on other clouds, and licensing shenanigans shouldn’t be the reason you pick one over the other.
[blog] Implement Function Calling with Gemini to query backend SQL Systems — Complete deployment tutorial. Giving an LLM “tools” it can use when it doesn’t have the answer itself? That’s the power of function calling. Learn more about it by reading this.
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