Daily Reading List – October 25, 2024 (#427)

Do you have a different level of responsiveness based on the digital channel? For me, work chat messages get responded to in < 2 hours. Emails, same day. Twitter/X DMs, same day. Personal email, within a week. LinkedIn messages, monthly?

[blog] 7 Developer Experience Metrics to Track. Here’s a solid list of items you should keep an eye on to ensure developers are engaged with your platform.

[blog] A tour of Vertex AI Model Garden. Even if you’re fully committed to a model vendor (which would be surprising), there are constantly new model editions coming out. Ivan looks at the experience we offer for finding and engaging with Google and third party models.

[blog] Technical Debt By A Thousand Cuts. Good perspectives here from Charles at Forrester. Why do IT leaders get in trouble when thinking of software systems as finished, paid-for assets.

[blog] Evolving the Responsible Generative AI Toolkit with new tools for every LLM. This looks like a good thing to do. We’ve shipped a toolkit that helps with watermarking, model alignment, and prompt debugging.

[article] Waymo raises $5.6 billion to fund Austin and Atlanta expansion. I haven’t ridden in one yet, but I hear good things. More self-driving cars coming to a city near you.

[article] 1BRC–Nerd Sniping the Java Community. What kind of wizardry does it take to make Java process a billion rows of data in just 2 seconds? Learn more here.

[blog] Things you never dared to ask about LLMs. So great! Guillaume has a fun deck that answers some fundamental questions he’s found answers to while building up expertise in generative AI.

[blog] Yes, Or … Good one. There are many things we’ll say (“lead by example”, “be customer obsessed”, “always be learning”) which aren’t always true.

[blog] Serverless Backstage with Cloud Run: A Guide for Ambitious Minimalists. I wouldn’t have thought you could run the internal dev portal Backstage in a serverless environment. But hey, most things can deploy to Cloud Run.

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