Right. No guarantee it will continue and MSW is correct that it's always about individuals EXCEPT that historically many service teams didn't budget for oss work. Now they increasingly do. That's a corporate req that makes the individual work possible. Let's hope it continues
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Google’s Major Open Source Contributions and Cloud Competition
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Google is a fantastic contributor and also has the distinction of contributing some big projects like K8s and TensorFlow. So this isn't about AWS being better than Google (it's not) but rather about finally doing really well.
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Amazon Accelerates Open Source Involvement in Cloud Infrastructure
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Amazon’s quiet open source revolution. AWS finally sees open source obsession = customer obsession, and has accelerated involvement in Postgres, K8s, and more. https://
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Managing Focus: AI Tools for Distraction-Free Work Environment
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Agreed. It helps me work (or relax) without distraction. Yet I rarely *want* it. It has to be forced on me. Need somehow to change that to give myself more room to think.
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Waiting for AI implications: acceptance and collective action
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I'm just waiting for them to take mine. I won't care. Maybe they're waiting until I (and others) do.
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Separating Hype from Substance in Generative AI
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There's a lot of hype around gen AI, but also substance. This should be an informative session to separate the two. https://t.co/qjuQvxvWzD pic.twitter.com/ikhrbtH1ZC
— Matt Asay (@mjasay) 20 avril 2023There's a lot of hype around gen AI, but also substance. This should be an informative session to separate the two. https://
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Uber’s $500M Ad Business: Monetizing Ride Moments
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It always seems to come back to advertising…. Interesting interview digging into Uber's $500M (and very profitable) ad business. https://
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Gergely Orosz shares insights on software engineering topics
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NoSQL Data Modeling Expert at MongoDB Shares Insights
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Every minute I get to listen to @houlihan_rick is time incredibly well spent. Here's a guy that did NoSQL data modeling at incredible scale at Amazon, and continues to do that on a daily basis for customers here at @MongoDB
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Large Language Models Emerge as New Cloud Battleground
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Large language models are the new cloud battleground https://
infoworld.com/article/369333
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… by @mjasay for @infoworld