I attended an exec offsite today for Google Cloud folks and heard about some of our future plans. Wow. I’m constantly blown away by our creative and useful applications of technology.
[blog] Veo and Imagen 3: Announcing new video and image generation models on Vertex AI. I’m easily impressed, but even the most cynical person will be impressed by this text-to-video and text-to-image capability.
[article] Capital One finds data disconnect between IT and business leaders. The data management strategy at many companies isn’t as good as execs think it is!
[blog] If Not React, Then What? This was easily the most interesting thing I read today. Wow. Lots of assertive opinions, but also a thorough look at why frameworkism (choosing massive frontend frameworks) is an engineering anti-pattern.
[article] Why Startups Can’t Afford ‘Free’ Open Source Testing. There’s “free as in beer” and “free as in puppies” and most software (including testing software) is the latter. You may not pay for the item, but there’s a total cost of ownership.
[article] Why microservices might be finished as monoliths return with a vengeance. There’s no data offered to suggest people are actually making major changes to architectural choices, but there’s valid points here on why folks struggle with microservices.
[blog] Deploying LlamaIndex Workflows to Cloud Run with Llama Deploy. Here’s a good look at popular framework for building generative AI apps, and how to deploy the app to the cloud.
[article] Meta is reportedly planning a $10 billion, globe-spanning subsea internet cable. All the cool people are doing subsea cables.
[article] About 10% of developers ‘do virtually nothing’. Code commits aren’t the right measure, but this could still be accurate. My question is whether that number is high or low compared to other roles in tech, and elsewhere.
[article] Why Now Is the Time to Migrate From Redis to Valkey. The case made here is ok, but only really focuses on the fully open source license. There needs to be a more compelling argument for folks to move, IMHO.
[blog] What is Valkey? This is actually a new post from the Redis team. They take a fairly balanced look at what Valkey is about, while also reminding folks of why Redis is great.
[article] So You Want to Be a Product Manager. When I took my first PM job a decade+ ago, I finally felt like I had a career path. What a fun job. Here’s more about it.
[article] The Real Way To Pitch Platform Engineering to Execs. The first question to ask yourself is “do we actually need this?” In some orgs, it makes no sense to do platform engineering. But if it does, focusing on these benefits is a good deal.
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