That’s a wrap on the week. Enjoy some time outside this weekend!
[blog] Pushing the frontiers of audio generation. This is an area of massively accelerating progress. Here’s what we’re up to, and it includes some embedded audio samples.
[article] How to Build a Billion-Dollar Marketplace — Do’s and Don’ts from the Growth Expert Behind Grubhub, Pinterest, and More. I thought this was a very helpful article for those building up marketplaces. There might be some counter-intuitive advice in there!
[article] What is the impact of AI adoption on engineering organizations? (2024 DORA Report). This analysis digs into the impact of AI on productivity.
[blog] Transformation as a Project. Marty says that you shouldn’t treat transformation efforts (such as moving from a project model to a product model) as a project in itself. Instead, treat the transformation effort itself as a product with the learning and iterations that come with it.
[blog] State in Infrastructure as Code tools. It’s mostly unavoidable that you’ll have state to manage alongside your IaC tools. It might be info about the resources themselves, history, or even random identifiers. Brian takes a look.
[article] Google Just Announced a Bunch of New AI Features for Maps. Some of these look fairly useful. Here’s our blog post too, which shows visuals.
[blog] An intro to Google Cloud for AWS experts. This is a useful look at what’s different (better?) in Google Cloud and can help you map your existing AWS knowledge over.
[article] How To Have A Happy Retirement: 4 Secrets From Research. I’ve got a few years to go. But I do think about “what’s next” and how to stay enthusiastic about whatever I’m doing.
[blog] Google Cloud database news roundup, October 2024 edition. There’s a lot more than just AI going on. I like seeing so many wide-ranging improvements to cloud database offerings.
[blog] Embeddings are underrated. Cool post that explains the fundamentals of embeddings, and how they can be awesome for even folks in tech writing.
[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: 10 ways to make cyber-physical systems more resilient. This edition is stuff with links and specific advice for security folks.
[article] It Literally Pays to Love Your Work. People can tell when folks love what you’ve built, and perceive it as more valuable.
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