Taking a quick trip up to Sunnyvale tonight for Cloud Next ’25 keynote rehearsals tomorrow. The reading lists will continue while we prep for the big show.
[blog] Leading Effective Engineering Teams in the Age of GenAI. This is a beast of a post that will take you an hour to read. But at minimum, give it a click and skim. Fantastic material for those wanting to lead the AI revolution from the front within their teams.
[blog] RAG with a PDF using LlamaIndex and SimpleVectorStore on Vertex AI. Building an AI-ready cache from PDF content is an important use case. Good demo!
[blog] Discontinuous improvement. Good reminder that nobody really improves “continuously.” It’s bursty and happens in batches. This point asks you to factor it in.
[blog] My Thoughts on the Future of “AI”. We’re all guessing. But you should plan like a pessimist, and dream like an optimist.
[blog] Load balancing with random job arrivals. The Google Research folks (in partnership with others) came up with some fresh ideas about job scheduling on unrelated machines.
[youtube-video] Gemini app: Canvas, Deep Research and personalization. Video-style release notes are a cool idea. Some of my colleagues look at what’s new in the Gemini app.
[article] 5 Techniques to Build a More Powerful Speaking Voice. This is more about the mechanics than the content itself, but still quite important.
[blog] Introducing JobSet. Here’s a new type of AI in open source Kubernetes that helps you define and execute distributed jobs.
[blog] Speed up checkpoint loading time at scale using Orbax on JAX. Even if you’re not training AI/ML models, you might enjoy the engineering aspects of speeding up the storage of incremental progress.
[article] AI Trends Disrupting Software Teams. Wide-ranging look at the various ways that AI is impacting dev teams, operations teams, tech writers, and more.
[blog] Strengthening Google Developer Experts community with Google Cloud Champion Innovators. Many tech companies have Ambassador, Champion, or MVP programs. Our Google Developer Experts (GDE) program is elite, and we just rolled a subset of our Cloud Champion folks into it.
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