Daily Reading List – October 9, 2024 (#415)

Another packed day in Stockholm, with a keynote rehearsals for keynotes tomorrow. What a treat to get to work with and learn from folks around the world!

[blog] Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases. This article popped up for me today, and even though it’s four years old, Jaana’s wisdom is still on point.

[blog] Introducing AI-powered app dev with code customization from Gemini Code Assist Enterprise. Great update to this constantly-improving AI assistance experience. For devs in the IDE, it’s powerful. And now the Enterprise edition brings AI assistance to multiple cloud services.

[blog] What is Infrastructure as Data? What does this even mean? Is it all about having a serializable data structure that gets applied to infrastructure? Brian explores.

[blog] How to protect your site from DDoS attacks with the power of Google Cloud networking and network security. You deserve nice things. Companies of any size experience distributed denial of service attacks, but running in the right cloud can keep you safer.

[article] Knowledge workers lean on AI as workloads increase. Another survey showing that execs and workers have different awareness about AI usage, and that folks feel under-trained.

[article] Stop Ignoring Your High Performers. I was convicted about this point when I read Andy Grove’s book a few years back. You might mistakenly think high performers have it all figured out and should be left alone. That’s wrong. Spend MORE time with these folks.

[youtube-video] Deno 2 is here… will it actually kill Node.js this time? There was a ton of info packed into this 4-minute video and now I’m kinda psyched to use Deno.

[article] NotebookLM podcasts — the missing piece in the GenAI puzzle? Is this easily our most viral tech release in 2024? Probably. Tom looks at using NotebookLM in a technical context to better understand complex material. Daniel was also blown away.

[article] Enterprises cling to mainframe as cloud expands. It’s not a zero sum game. Just because Cloud grows, it doesn’t mean on-premises (necessarily) shrinks.

[blog] Don’t deploy these applications on serverless. For those whose serverless worldview consists of Amazon Lambda, this advice makes sense. For devs that use more modern runtimes (*cough* Cloud Run *cough*), these aren’t necessarily the same concerns.

[blog] Defining statistical models in JAX? We don’t make a lot of noise about JAX and why it’s awesome for ML Engineers. But many folks love using it.

[blog] Writing a circuit breaker in Go. How are you protecting your systems from cascading failures? Circuit breaker is one pattern to apply. This post looks at building one in Go.

[blog] Write better log queries, faster: Introducing pipe syntax in BigQuery and Cloud Logging. Maybe I’ll get into this? I don’t know. But if it makes querying easier, I’m all for it.

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