Flying home today, and thankful for decent wifi on this flight. Not good enough to do real work, but good enough to catch up email and do some tech reading. Enjoy the weekend.
[blog] Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis & John Jumper awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Very impressive! Yes, Google is a successful commercial company, but I appreciate the deep investment in research we have here.
[article] Open source business model struggles at WordPress. No one is looking good here, but one side looks significantly worse. It doesn’t give me a ton of confidence in the platform!
[blog] Achieve global scale and greater flexibility with new Memorystore enhancements. In-memory caches are important. Now you can spin up Redis and Valkey datastores with cross-region replication and even single-shard clusters.
[article] How to Give Busy People the Time to Innovate. I liked many of the points in this article, and it’s something that matters if you need time for innovation, or want to free up your team to do creative work.
[blog] Project Shield expands free DDoS protection to even more organizations and nonprofits. It’s great that we’re offering this type of protection to companies that might struggle to protect themselves from online attacks.
[article] Gradio 5 is here: Hugging Face’s newest tool simplifies building AI-powered web apps. You’re familiar with this tool if you’ve thrown simple web interfaces atop an LLM. Now, it’s getting some enterprise-y features.
[blog] Valkey Momentum: Seven Months In. Here’s some excellent, well-rounded research from Rachel that explores the Redis project and its viable alternatives.
[blog] Using BigQuery Omni to reduce log ingestion and analysis costs in a multi-cloud environment. This is an excellent idea. Here’s a simplified architecture for storing and analyzing logs that sit in different clouds.
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