Tag: GoogleCloud

  • Citi taps Google Cloud for app migration, AI adoption – “As evidence of progress, CFO Mark Mason pointed to 450 apps retired by the bank since the start of the year. Citi has reduced tech sprawl by eliminating 1,250 apps in the last two years, Mason said.” // Thinks of all the zombie apps like…

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  • [Spring AI: An AI framework for Java developers](https://www.infoworld.com/article/3540494/spring-ai-generative-ai-for-java-developers.html) – No python? No problem.

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  • Gemini at Work 2024: How customers use Google Cloud AI products – More on the “agent” metaphor/thought technology Gemini is using. Plus, a really great list of one-liner, enterprise AI uses cases.

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  • Google Cloud rolls out new Gemini models, AI agents, customer engagement suite – Big round-up of new Gemini stuff: “agents.”

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  • Measuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 – “If the decider doesn’t believe the form of the result in principle, there is again no point in measuring the process.” // Some great advice in here about improvement programs. Come up with metrics and needs from the (economic/strategic) stakeholder who has the power to make changes.…

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  • HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm – Reverse engineering Google search ranking based on method calls from leaked code.

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  • With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS? – “AWS’s differentiation historically has been in infrastructure. Rather than compete in areas like enterprise software suites, it can double down on custom silicon GPUs as an NVIDIA alternative. AWS could bring its “go build it” cloud strategy to genAI to help customers home in on use cases…

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  • Enterprise AI, D&D with ChatGPT, & DevBurgerOps

    Enterprise AI, D&D with ChatGPT, & DevBurgerOps

    Lots of original content this week, starting with this prediction about “enterprise AI”: I also made these since last episode: Another go-round at figuring out playing D&D with ChatGPT. It went pretty well! Here’s my retro/analysis of it, and here’s the actual play session with inline commentary. I was the guest co-host on this week’s…

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  • ‘This shit’s so expensive’: a note on generative models and software margins – “The fundamental problem with generative models is that they are 10x too expensive to work with the industry’s default business models and structure. Either these companies who are going all-in on ‘AI“‘need to fundamentally change everything about how they work – laying…

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  • Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals – Defending yourself against the three public clouds.

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  • The Homework Apocalypse substack.com/inbox/pos… How to incorporate ChatGPT (etc.) in school and lessons…in a good way.

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  • Product Management in Platform Engineering

    Product Management in Platform Engineering

    Suggested soundtrack: I really enjoy the London Eye show. I don’t listen to it enough. This morning I gave my talk on platform stuff – platform engineering, building an app stack on kubernetes, etc. It was fun as always. I think there were some parts that were more shallow than usual, but I like the…

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  • 🗂 Link: USAA uses Google Cloud machine learning to estimate vehicle repair costs – SiliconANGLE

    While Docker may be able to secure additional capital, it’s yet another company that finds itself in an ominous position after raising mounds of cash during the heady days earlier this decade. When Bearden joined in May, he became the fourth CEO and the third since 2017, replacing Steve Singh, a former senior executive at…

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  • Link: Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide

    Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Dublin, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kaohsiung, London, Los Angeles, Lyon, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New Taipei City, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco Bay Area, São Paulo, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw, and Zurich. Source: Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide

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  • 🗂 The new CEO of Google Cloud explains the updated master plan for taking on Amazon Web Services

    > “We’re going to specialize our sales team to talk to specific industries in the language of the industry,” Kurian said. “You will see us competing much more aggressively going forward,” he continued. www.businessinsider.com/google-cl…

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  • Link: Google Cloud Revenue

    When asked about Google’s on-premises strategy, Pichai said the company is “thoughtfully looking at it,” and cited its partnerships with SAP, Pivotal, and VMware. Google also has a hybrid-cloud product with Cisco and its own Kubernetes-based GKE On Prem available to early access customers. On-premises data centers remain “a big, big requirement for customers,” and…

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  • Link: Google Cloud rolls out prepackaged AI services aimed at business functions

    “Add it up and AI cloud services may veer from the typical vertical selling approach deployed by enterprise software vendors.” Original source: Google Cloud rolls out prepackaged AI services aimed at business functions

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  • Link: Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud Services Platform: bringing the best of the cloud to you

    Round-up of developer related stuff from Google. Original source: Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud Services Platform: bringing the best of the cloud to you

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  • Link: Google and the new punk era of IT

    2006! Original source: Google and the new punk era of IT

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  • Link: Info Commissioner tears into Google’s ‘call us journalists’ trial defence

    ‘This argument enraged the ICO, which said in the submission: “The concept of ‘journalism’ presupposes a process by which content is published to an audience pursuant to the taking of human editorial decisions as to the substantive nature and extent of that content.”… In plain English, humans (mostly) don’t decide what appears in search results…

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