It was quite a busy day, but I’m ending the workday with a chance to catch up a bit. I’m off to Stockholm tomorrow, and am looking forward to a week with customers and colleagues.
[article] The Big Interview: Elastic CTO Shay Banon on suing AWS, returning to OSS, and GenAI. Open source is in a weird place. This article is about Elastic’s 180 degree turn. Also see this one about the WordPress drama that’s cost Automattic almost 10% of their staff.
[blog] How to Choose the Architecture for Your GenAI Application. Very interesting post from Lak that explores eight architectural patterns you might employ based on your creativity needs and risk tolerance.
[blog] AlloyDB supercharges PostgreSQL vector search with accuracy, speed, and 1B+ scale. The ScaNN index for PostgreSQL stems from years of Google research and offers some fantastic performance for those working with vectors.
[article] How to Measure Product-Market Fit. Not a long piece, but a good one if you’re looking for an approach (and metrics) to figure out if you’ve got an idea with traction.
[blog] Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is now production ready. Nobody is shipping like Google right now. It’s so fun to watch. This new Gemini variant is fast, cheap, and good.
[blog] Introducing Stripe’s new API release process. Stripe is often (rightfully) held up as a good example of developer-friendly docs and tools. This is a refresh on how they version and communicate API changes.
[article] A Guide to Being a Great Panelist. Have you seen much advice on this topic? I have not. This is a good look at what you should do if you’ve been invited to participate in a panel.
[blog] When to use supervised fine-tuning for Gemini. Learn what supervised tuning is all about, how it helps you customize a model, and when to use it.
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