Daily Reading List – October 31, 2024 (#431)

Happy Halloween! I’m looking forward to taxing my kids’ hauls tonight and leaving them all the weirdo candy. There’s some treats (no tricks) below.

[article] AI Code Assistants Are Moving Beyond Auto-Complete: Here’s What’s Next. I suspect that AI is going to change what we expect of IDEs and code editors, and even change when we use them!

[blog] Gemini API and Google AI Studio now offer Grounding with Google Search. Get fresher and more trustworthy answers by grounding your results with Google Search results.

[blog] Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data. When storage is nearly free, we (accidentally) save everything and avoid purging. This is a thought-provoking piece about re-thinking that.

[article] 2024 DORA Report. I’m seeing more analysis of this report. This time, its insightful perspective from Laura at DX.

[blog] Ask a Techspert: What’s the difference between a CPU, GPU and TPU? Here’s a quick look at different chip types, with extra attention on TPUs.

[blog] Introducing an industry first: application awareness on Cloud Interconnect. If you’ve got cross-cloud setups, you’ll want to take a look at this.

[blog] How Executives Can Avoid Being Disrupted by Emerging Technologies. Most of this AWS article is about how to best identify trends, which is definitely useful.

[article] Chainguard CEO Warns of Open Source License Erosion. Sounds like this was a good talk, but the article recap gives us the salient points.

[blog] Jumpstart analysis with Crashlytics’ AI Assistance: code context. AI-based interactions for developers are getting more sophisticated. I like this ability to give extra context to the agent to help with troubleshooting.

[article] That which never moved can never move back. Is any repatriation from cloud happening en masse? I don’t think so. Some workloads move around. But nobody who’s scaling or trying to win is doubling down on-premises.

[blog] Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution. Not all data centers are the same! Amin talks about some pretty special aspects of the Google data center network.

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