That’s a wrap on 2024 for me. I cleared out the reading queue, which should hold you over for a few days. I’ll keep reading things and occasionally posting on X/Twitter, but I’m generally taking off the next two weeks. See you back on the Reading List on January 6th, and THANK YOU for reading.
[blog] Google Research 2024: Breakthroughs for impact at every scale. What a year. Look at the advances in SO MANY areas of life.
[blog] Platform Engineering Evolution: Trends and Future Impact on Software Delivery. Excellent content here from Paula. She does a deft job exploring the history of platform engineering and where it’s heading.
[blog] Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation. Spanner might be the best database in the cloud, and with its multi-model nature, you can now do so much—full text search! vector search! graph!—at once.
[blog] What just happened. Many of us are asking the same question. December was a breakthrough month in AI with the entire landscape shifting. We shipped an absolute ton.
[blog] December in LLMs has been a lot. It has. Across a wide range of dimensions, AI looks drastically different in the market than just a few months ago.
[article] Workers fear their skills will be obsolete this decade, report finds. Some will be. Just like some skills I had ten years ago that don’t matter today!
[blog] Migrate your applications to Kubernetes using Istio. Sometimes your migration assistance comes from places you didn’t look into.
[blog] AlloyDB Omni and local models on GKE. Great walkthrough of co-locating a model and a database in the same Kubernetes cluster, without sacrificing much.
[article] Year in Review: Containers Get Smaller, Faster, More Secure. Sure, lots of AI things happened this year. But plenty moved forward in container-land as well.
[blog] Calling all devs: Code the future of baseball with Google Cloud and MLB. Baseball, AI, and cash. I’m a fan of all those things. And now you can use the second to improve the first and win the last.
[article] Comparing PyTorch and JAX. Both are great. JAX has a lot of fans, and many more added themselves to the list in 2024. Learn more about both here.
[blog] Ends & Means. Bob explores this “ends justify the means” philosophy, and reminds us to consider if our well-intentioned means are actually causing bad outcomes.
[blog] Build Go applications using Project IDX and the Gemini API. I walked through this exact tutorial myself to see if it’s as easy as they said. It was. It’s free to use this charged up dev environment!
[blog] Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects. The premise feels right to me. “Train” the community to document, test, and propose fixes to open source software.
[blog] Firebase App Hosting: Emulators and a look forward to 2025. Firebase experienced a bit of a renaissance this year with new features, more cloud service integrations, and updated interfaces.
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