Daily Reading List – November 21, 2024 (#446)

Flying home after a good week in Sunnyvale. I’m excited about what we’re building ,but I’m more about excited about who is building and how we build.

[blog] Automating Bulk Assessments for Cloud Migration with Google’s DMA. If you’re migrating to the cloud, you probably have more than one database to consider. This post looks at a tool and approach to assess databases at scale.

[blog] Scaling wearable foundation models. A look at wearables, consumer health data, and model training.

[article] Global cloud spend to surpass $700B in 2025 as hybrid adoption spreads: Gartner. Cloud spending is up, and AI doesn’t hurt.

[blog] Learn to build and run AI powered apps at Firebase Demo Day ‘24. There’s a lot happening within this mobile and web hosting service. This post embeds short videos that show you how to realize some AI use cases.

[article] Google’s Gemini chatbot now has memory. It remembers. I mean, not in a creepy way. But if you want our Gemini agent to use past info to make future suggestions, you got it.

[article] What are top social drivers of performance in engineering teams? Are you creating an environment where your software engineers can thrive, and what predicts success? This post shares some research.

[article] The 2024 State of Platform Engineering? Fledgling at Best. Jennifer looks at a recent survey and explains the progression towards platform engineering, and why we have a ways to go.

[article] Structured rollout boosts Copilot adoption and satisfaction by 20%. Short post, but a good reminder that you can’t just hand your team a set of tools; invest in training and thoughtful rollouts.

[blog] Why configuration drift is so hard to avoid in practice. You may have adopted infrastructure as code, but Brian points out that it’s unlikely that you’ll funnel every change through that pipeline.

[blog] Announcing the Winners of the Gemini API Developer Competition! Very cool apps here, all showing a creativity that’s inspiring.

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