Had another good day in Sunnyvale today and I’m enjoying these chances to plan what, and how, we work in 2025. The industry keeps moving, even if I’m in all-day meetings, and there’s some good updates below.
[article] Using AI to design landing pages. This advice (and technique) could apply to both internal or external landing pages.
[blog] Top 10 Things Developers Want from their AI Code Assistants in 2024. A lot has changed in the year since Kate first wrote this post. This is a great list of what’s relevant right now.
[blog] Enhancing observability in complex IT infrastructures with Google Cloud Logging. I don’t come across much about built-in Cloud observability tools, so this one caught my eye. Good overview.
[podcast] Your Cloud IAM Top Pet Peeves (and How to Fix Them). Listen to this episode of the Cloud Security podcast to go deeper on identity and access management, and where things go sideways.
[article] The product-led growth product manager’s toolkit: Empowering product-led success. If you’re getting your head around PLG, this is a useful piece to read.
[blog] Control your Generative AI costs with the Gemini API’s context caching. This is a powerful function that has come to other models too. Learn when and how to use context caching.
[blog] How we built Google Meet’s adaptive audio feature. I assumed this was just a terrible fact of life. But no, it doesn’t HAVE to sound like death when people join a conference call from the same room.
[blog] Why Spring AI: The Seamless Path to Generative AI. Don’t sleep on Spring AI as a framework that stands to get traction. There’s a lot of Spring Boot out there, and this looks like a solid option for Java devs.
[blog] Google Axion is a game-changer — let me show you why. This Arm-based CPU is a big deal, and this detailed post explains the architecture and performance.
[article] Gartner forecast dampens cloud repatriation outlook. Workloads will move around, but I haven’t met many (any?) industry leaders who think exiting the cloud gives them an advantage.
[blog] New Cassandra to Spanner adapter simplifies Yahoo’s migration journey. Plenty of products or components come about because of a specific customer’s need. This one helped Yahoo! make their database transition.
[blog] Announcing new updates to Cloud Translation AI, now covering 189 languages. If you’re translating content for global audiences, or those in a region with multiple languages being spoken, check this out.
[article] WebAssembly Won’t Replace Docker Anytime Soon: Docker CTO. Agreed. The tooling isn’t there yet, and the use cases don’t seem mainstream enough to move folks off containers.
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