Daily Reading List – October 16, 2024 (#420)

I had a trip up to Sunnyvale today and some great chats with a pair of customers. Tomorrow, I’m speaking at an event and jetting back home. I enjoy testing out new ideas and messaging on unsuspecting folks!

[article] How CIOs are reskilling their workforce. You’re not going to hire a ton of AI experts. They’re not out there. But you can reskill and upskill your existing talent.

[blog] Beyond the basics: Build real-world gen AI skills with the latest learning paths from Google Cloud. If you’re upskilling, go to training that you can trust. These new learning journeys look great, and they’ll quickly make you functional with AI tech.

[blog] Implementing Private Service Connect for Cloud Run Applications. You want speed, and safety. Here’s how to get the easy deployment and ops of Cloud Run, but with secure access control.

[blog] Investigation of a Workbench UI Latency Issue. If you enjoy stories of debugging complex systems, this post from Netflix is for you.

[blog] Google Cloud Is Making GenAI Boring. You’re welcome? This post points out that we’re not playing follow-the-leader. We’re blending AI into our platform in creative ways, and making it easier to do important things.

[blog] The Inevitability of Mixing Open Source and Money. Armin says that the current state of open source and money is inadequate.

[article] What Platform Engineering Meant for Adidas’s SREs. Lots of details here about a transition to platform engineering.

[blog] Fine-tuning Gemma, the journey from beginning to end. It doesn’t matter if you care about Gemma, or prefer other open LLMs. Read this post to learn some of the terminology and activities that matter when fine tuning models.

[blog] SMURF: Beyond the Test Pyramid. This short post from our Testing experts encourages a more robust way to think about your test suite and identifies where tension can exist.

[article] Doctors complain of IT ‘in the stone age’. Short post, but a reminder that there’s much to do to make healthcare easier. I talked to smart folks last week that demoed one solution.

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