It’s a season of vendor ratings and tech predictions. I’m wading through them, and will link to interesting ones. Below you’ll find a few fresh assessments and looks into the future.
[article] The Google summit: This is what the cloud will look like in the future. An interview with me in this Swedish publication. It was at the end of a LONG day, so I take no responsibility for my lack of filter.
[blog] Realizing the potential of GitOps. Folks increasingly use this approach to deploy and manage software. It obviously depends on git, which means plusses and minuses.
[blog] Save on GPUs: Smarter autoscaling for your GKE inferencing workloads. Read this before you start enabling autoscale on LLM inference workloads. You might be using the wrong scaling metric!
[blog] Dockerized Dev Testing: Chick-fil-A Delivery’s Shift-Left Strategy for Ensuring Quality. The CFA team wanted faster feedback loops and a faster integration test suite. Results look positive!
[blog] Predictions 2025: Clouds Shift From Riches To RAGs. Forrester Research has a lot of blog posts out with interesting predictions. This one looks at some Cloud ones, and see others on AI, software development, and business buyers.
[article] How did Google develop its developer experience program? How is your company thinking about developer experience? Are you measuring it? We’ve learned things, and are still learning things, but have a system that works.
[article] Rift Between Junior and Senior Developers. Reasonable concern from Trisha here. Will senior engineers spend more time training models than time spent training junior engineers?
[blog] 5 Levels Of AI Agents. What are AI agents and how might you categorize them? This post digs in, and offers one useful way to consider them.
[article] 3 Ways to Manage Moments of Work-Induced Anxiety. If you have zero stress at work, that’s a red flag to me. There should always be some tension somewhere, or else I’d be surprised if anything of value is going on. But, that doesn’t mean we don’t need ways to manage it!
[repo] Movie Guru. Here’s a fun sample app that demonstrates a handful of AI concepts. It uses generative AI to generate fake movies, and runs a RAG-based chatbot to help users find a movie to watch.
[blog] What’s new with Robinhood, our in-house load balancing service. It’s not hard to imagine Dropbox having some interesting load balancing challenges. Lots of client types, global audience, long transactions. This post explores what they’ve built.
[blog] Google Cloud Apigee named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management. You’ve got a LOT of choices when it comes to API management. Hard to make a bad choice. Read this to see who is in the leader quadrant.
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