It’s probably just me, or confirmation bias, but I feel like I’ve seen an uptick in deep content lately. Each day I’m finding blog posts and articles that explore topics in fresh ways. Lovin’ it.
[article] 5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About. LLM hysteria may drown out other news, but there always lots of interesting things happening. Good look here.
[blog] Winning Hearts and Minds. Transforming to a product culture? I liked Marty’s list of patterns you should aim to realize.
[blog] Data loading best practices for AI/ML inference on GKE. Really good post here about speeding up the time it takes to load models/weights for inference.
[article] Amazon CEO Jassy Makes Bizarre Claim About Crushing Microsoft, Google on GenAI Innovation. “Crushing” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. But hey, this cloud competition has been great for developers, regardless of how much AWS is playing catchup!
[blog] Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction. Do you want a couple thousand words on building an accurate counting service? OF COURSE YOU DO. This is an excellent post from the Netflix team, and its level of detail is an example of why I love tech blogs.
[article] Qwen2.5-Coder just changed the game for AI programming—and it’s free. There’s terrific AI work happening in China, as I learned this year on my trip there.
[article] What are the latest benchmarks for the “DORA four” key metrics? Very good analysis here of the latest research into software delivery performance. Skim through to see what performance level your company is in.
[article] 3 Ways to Make Sure High Performers Feel Valued. Managers might assume that all high performers know their crushing it, and valued. That’s definitely not the case.
[blog] The Cold, Hard Truth About Your Cloud DR Strategy. Corey reminds us about the tricky/interesting parts of backup, and the reality of restore.
[article] TIOBE Programming Index News November 2024: Go Reaches Its Highest-Ever Ranking. Something happening in Go land. We’re seeing some massive consumption numbers on our cloud side, and users seem to be embracing Go as a primary language.
[blog] Becoming an AI-Assisted Coding Convert. We each have different relationships with our dev tools and our preferred workflows. Aja found peace with using AI assistance in a way that worked for her.
[article] Will OpenTofu Dethrone Terraform in IaC? Not any time soon. But there’s shakiness in some foundational areas (IaC, IDEs, databases like Redis) that we haven’t seen in a long time.
[article] Build GenAI Prototypes with Streamlit. if you’re getting into building AI apps atop LLMs, you could do worse than starting with Streamlit to build prototypes.
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