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I spent most of today in an onsite offsite meeting, and it was great seeing some colleagues I don&#8217;t get to hang out with all the time. In between sessions, I got some good reading in.

[blog] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/google-named-a-leader-in-the-forrester-wave-ai-infrastructure-solutions-q1-2024/">Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q1 2024</a>. I also read the underlying report this morning, and there&#8217;s an impressive set of vendors in this space right now. While we&#8217;re tops, it&#8217;s a reminder that you should be &#8220;buying&#8221; expertise and agility, not hardware right now. The landscape and use cases are still emerging!

[article] <a href="https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/how-inefficient-are-engineering-organizations">How (in)efficient are engineering organizations?</a> Here&#8217;s a quick look at some data showing that about a quarter of a developer&#8217;s time is lost to inefficiency.

[article] <a href="https://thenewstack.io/how-to-store-embeddings-in-vector-search-and-implement-rag/">How to Store Embeddings in Vector Search and Implement RAG</a>. The process of customizing LLM responses will keep getting easier, especially with managed services in the picture.

[article] <a href="https://hbr.org/2024/03/when-you-have-to-make-a-strategic-decision-without-much-data">When You Have to Make a Strategic Decision Without Much Data</a>. Sometimes (often?) you don&#8217;t have the data available that could help you make a confident decision. This article talks about three ways to set a course forward.

[blog] <a href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/03/19/istio-announces-the-beta-release-of-ambient-mode/">Istio announces the beta release of ambient mode</a>. Service meshes are starting to get a little simpler, and a proxy-less architecture will be popular in the years ahead.

[article] <a href="https://www.ciodive.com/news/generative-ai-tech-debt-complexity-gartner/710486/">Early generative AI adopters at higher risk of tech debt</a>. It&#8217;s guaranteed that something you&#8217;re doing with generative AI today will be obsolete in a year. That&#8217;s the nature of fast-evolving technology. But that work isn&#8217;t in vain, as this article points out.

[blog] <a href="https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-asia/8-years-later-a-world-go-champions-reflections-on-alphago/">8 years later: A world Go champion’s reflections on AlphaGo</a>. I remember this was a big deal when it happened. Here, we revisit the &#8220;win&#8221; by AI and what Lee Sae Dol did afterwards.

[article] <a href="https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/notes-on-product-management-theater">Notes on Product management theater</a>. Product guru John analyzes answers from product guru Marty in a recent podcast. Good work.

[blog] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/apache-spark-stored-procedures-in-bigquery-are-ga/">Unify analytics with Spark procedures in BigQuery, now generally available</a>. BigQuery is such a fascinating, unified platform for analytics. So many things in a single place, accessible through SQL queries.

[blog] <a href="https://spin.atomicobject.com/concurrency-go/">Leverage Go’s Concurrency: Transforming API Data Fetching with Goroutines and Channels</a>. This is a complex language feature, but powerful. And I&#8217;d probably learn it by asking generative AI to produce some code on my behalf.

[article] <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714401/c-plus-plus-creator-rebuts-white-house-warning.html">C++ creator rebuts White House warning</a>. Is C++ memory safe? Its creator says to chill out on all the &#8220;don&#8217;t use C++&#8221; talk.

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content: "\nI spent most of today in an onsite offsite meeting, and it was great
 seeing some colleagues I don&#8217;t get to hang out with all the time. In between
 sessions, I got some good reading in.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/google-named-a-leader-in-the-forrester-wave-ai-infrastructure-solutions-q1-2024/\">Google
 named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q1 2024</a>.
 I also read the underlying report this morning, and there&#8217;s an impressive
 set of vendors in this space right now. While we&#8217;re tops, it&#8217;s a reminder
 that you should be &#8220;buying&#8221; expertise and agility, not hardware right
 now. The landscape and use cases are still emerging!\n\n\n\n[article] <a
 href=\"https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/how-inefficient-are-engineering-organizations\">How
 (in)efficient are engineering organizations?</a> Here&#8217;s a quick look
 at some data showing that about a quarter of a developer&#8217;s time is lost to
 inefficiency.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://thenewstack.io/how-to-store-embeddings-in-vector-search-and-implement-rag/\">How
 to Store Embeddings in Vector Search and Implement RAG</a>. The process
 of customizing LLM responses will keep getting easier, especially with managed services
 in the picture.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://hbr.org/2024/03/when-you-have-to-make-a-strategic-decision-without-much-data\">When
 You Have to Make a Strategic Decision Without Much Data</a>. Sometimes
 (often?) you don&#8217;t have the data available that could help you make a confident
 decision. This article talks about three ways to set a course forward.\n\n\n\n[blog]
 <a href=\"https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/03/19/istio-announces-the-beta-release-of-ambient-mode/\">Istio
 announces the beta release of ambient mode</a>. Service meshes are starting
 to get a little simpler, and a proxy-less architecture will be popular in the years
 ahead.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://www.ciodive.com/news/generative-ai-tech-debt-complexity-gartner/710486/\">Early
 generative AI adopters at higher risk of tech debt</a>. It&#8217;s guaranteed
 that something you&#8217;re doing with generative AI today will be obsolete in a
 year. That&#8217;s the nature of fast-evolving technology. But that work isn&#8217;t
 in vain, as this article points out.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-asia/8-years-later-a-world-go-champions-reflections-on-alphago/\">8
 years later: A world Go champion’s reflections on AlphaGo</a>. I remember
 this was a big deal when it happened. Here, we revisit the &#8220;win&#8221; by
 AI and what Lee Sae Dol did afterwards.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/notes-on-product-management-theater\">Notes
 on Product management theater</a>. Product guru John analyzes answers from
 product guru Marty in a recent podcast. Good work.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a
 href=\"https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/apache-spark-stored-procedures-in-bigquery-are-ga/\">Unify
 analytics with Spark procedures in BigQuery, now generally available</a>.
 BigQuery is such a fascinating, unified platform for analytics. So many things in
 a single place, accessible through SQL queries.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a
 href=\"https://spin.atomicobject.com/concurrency-go/\">Leverage Go’s Concurrency:
 Transforming API Data Fetching with Goroutines and Channels</a>. This is
 a complex language feature, but powerful. And I&#8217;d probably learn it by asking
 generative AI to produce some code on my behalf.\n\n\n\n[article] <a
 href=\"https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714401/c-plus-plus-creator-rebuts-white-house-warning.html\">C++
 creator rebuts White House warning</a>. Is C++ memory safe? Its creator
 says to chill out on all the &#8220;don&#8217;t use C++&#8221; talk.\n\n\n\n##\n\n\n\nWant
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