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If I made up a theme for today&#8217;s reading list, I think it&#8217;s &#8220;focus.&#8221; You&#8217;ll find a few pieces that are about focusing your automation efforts, AI usage, and even your time.

[article] <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715362/most-developers-have-adopted-devops-survey-says.html">Most developers have adopted devops, survey says</a>. That seems like good news, but when you drill in, you see that a surprising number of people aren&#8217;t doing CI or CD. <a href="https://devops.com/cdf-survey-surfaces-devops-progress-and-challenges/">Related story</a>.

[article] <a href="https://hbr.org/2024/04/5-well-intentioned-behaviors-that-can-hurt-your-team">5 Well-Intentioned Behaviors That Can Hurt Your Team</a>. It&#8217;s one thing to be intentionally terrible at something, but it&#8217;s worse when your seemingly best efforts have a negative impact. Here are things that many of us probably do, and should stop doing.

[blog] <a href="https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-is-accelerating-me">AI is accelerating my technical writing output, and other observations</a>. If possible, read less from &#8220;thought leaders&#8221; and more from those doing the work. Tom offers up good personal observations of how AI is impacting tech writing.

[survey] <a href="https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8uCHA4aRzcGDjg2?source=doradotdev-banner">2024 DORA survey</a>. This is the tenth year of this widely-recognized report that explores what good software delivery practices look like. Participate in this year&#8217;s survey!

[youtube-video] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJHqBthLlc">Mastering Kubernetes for Multi-Cloud Efficiency With Nick Eberts</a>. Nick chats with Corey Quinn about Kubernetes. Neither of these two people is un-opinionated.

[blog] <a href="https://www.docker.com/blog/ai-trends-report-2024/">AI Trends Report 2024: AI’s Growing Role in Software Development</a>. On the topic of surveys, the Docker team shared results from their own study. No surprisingly, developers are using AI tools for coding assistance, writing docs, writing tests, and troubleshooting.

[blog] <a href="https://www.forrester.com/blogs/build-your-genai-strategy-on-a-rock-solid-foundation/">Build Your GenAI Strategy On A Rock-Solid Foundation (Model)</a>. I believe this refers to a family of foundation models, not a specific version. They change too fast! Maybe you can&#8217;t bet on one model, but don&#8217;t accidentally over-complicate things by trying to use all of them.

[youtube-video] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii6gs9zADEA">Colab 101: Your Ultimate Beginner&#8217;s Guide!</a> Millions of folks use Colab every month to learn Python, run models, and do all sorts of notebook-y things. This is a very good video intro.

[blog] <a href="https://redis.io/blog/building-a-rag-application-with-redis-and-spring-ai/">Building a RAG Application with Redis and Spring AI</a>. You have lots of ways to orchestrate calls to an LLM. Spring AI looks nice for Java devs.

[article] <a href="https://shiftmag.dev/fighting-distractions-as-a-software-developer-3175/">There is always something: Fighting distractions as a software developer</a>. Developer or not, your day is probably full of distractions. How do you force yourself to prioritize and then focus?

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 Well-Intentioned Behaviors That Can Hurt Your Team</a>. It&#8217;s one
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 <a href=\"https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8uCHA4aRzcGDjg2?source=doradotdev-banner\">2024
 DORA survey</a>. This is the tenth year of this widely-recognized report
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 Kubernetes for Multi-Cloud Efficiency With Nick Eberts</a>. Nick chats
 with Corey Quinn about Kubernetes. Neither of these two people is un-opinionated.\n\n\n\n[blog]
 <a href=\"https://www.docker.com/blog/ai-trends-report-2024/\">AI Trends
 Report 2024: AI’s Growing Role in Software Development</a>. On the topic
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 and troubleshooting.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://www.forrester.com/blogs/build-your-genai-strategy-on-a-rock-solid-foundation/\">Build
 Your GenAI Strategy On A Rock-Solid Foundation (Model)</a>. I believe this
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 fast! Maybe you can&#8217;t bet on one model, but don&#8217;t accidentally over-complicate
 things by trying to use all of them.\n\n\n\n[youtube-video] <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii6gs9zADEA\">Colab
 101: Your Ultimate Beginner&#8217;s Guide!</a> Millions of folks use Colab
 every month to learn Python, run models, and do all sorts of notebook-y things.
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 a RAG Application with Redis and Spring AI</a>. You have lots of ways to
 orchestrate calls to an LLM. Spring AI looks nice for Java devs.\n\n\n\n[article]
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