I’ve mostly adjusted to being back on Pacific Standard Time after a week in India. How long does it take you to switch back from traveling timezones? Meanwhile, I’m clearing out some of the reading queue, as you’ll find below.
[blog] Beyond the Chatbot: Agentic AI with Gemma. Cool post that explores agentic capabilities in our open LLM, Gemma.
[article] Microservices ate my application – an adoption anti-pattern. Blame the microservices architecture instead of your own choices? Chris says not to do that, and offers four recommendations to avoid this anti-pattern.
[blog] The power of large context windows for your documentation efforts. I learned a LOT from this post! Guillaume explores how to create dynamic tutorials by using AI to ask questions of the docs. Excellent example here, and I’m sure you’ll walk away with a couple of fresh ideas.
[article] Canonical Extends Kubernetes Distro Support to a Dozen Years. Wow, that’s a long time. Assuming you get all the security patches you need, I guess it’s not AWFUL to stay on a given distribution for so long. But I’d be cautious about a plan that depends on it.
[blog] AI Product Managers: The Role Of The Future Or Another Tool In Your Toolkit? Just like “AI developer”, assuming “AI [fill in the blank]” is a temporary role until everyone just uses it.
[docs] Scaling best practices for Cloud Service Mesh on GKE. I haven’t seen much guidance like this! Here’s a great guide for scaling the control planes that make up a service mesh.
[article] Exploring for strategy. I’ve found that the easiest way to avoid falling in love with a given idea is to constantly explore alternate opinions. It doesn’t mean I don’t have convictions; it means the ones I have are well-tested.
[blog] Mechanism design for large language models. Here’s new work from Google Research that looks at how to combine responses from multiple self-interested LLMs.
[blog] With MultiKueue, grab GPUs for your GKE cluster, wherever they may be. It can be tough to get the hardware when and where you want it, so this seems like a creative solution.
[article] Bridging the AI Learning Gap. Different needs at different stages of expertise! Here’s some useful perspective on how to integrate AI into the learning path.
[blog] Deep dive into AI with Google Cloud’s global generative AI roadshow. Speaking of learning new things, commit to a few in-person events this year. Last week, I kicked off this roadshow in India. We’ve got lots more coming up, including my appearance in Paris and Istanbul.
[article] Google Gemini Can Now Remember Your Previous Chats. The idea of “memory” will likely play a big part in how these AI tools for consumers advance this year.
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