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It was a quiet end to a bonkers run-up to <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next">Google Cloud Next</a>, which starts on Monday in Las Vegas. Most everything is done and ready to roll. I&#8217;m flying out tomorrow and have rehearsals on Sunday. I&#8217;ll plan on posting my reading list each day, but I&#8217;ll warn you ahead of time that it&#8217;ll probably be fairly Google heavy!

[article] <a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/uncovering-mainframe-seams.html#batch-pipeline">Uncovering the Seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation: Batch Pipeline Step Handoff</a>. The article keeps getting extended, and this latest addition looks at &#8220;seams&#8221; in the mainframe app around data processing.

[blog] <a href="https://glaforge.dev/posts/2024/04/04/calling-gemma-with-ollama-and-testcontainers/">Calling Gemma with Ollama, TestContainers, and LangChain4j</a>. Local development with LLMs has gotten much easier. If you&#8217;re building training labs or just experimenting, you might like this pattern of running Gemma in a testcontainer.

[blog] <a href="https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2024/04/05/monkigras-1/">2024 Monki Gras Recap, Day 1</a>. &#8220;Prompting craft&#8221; was the theme of this event, and Rachel&#8217;s recap does a great job pulling out some high notes to learn from.

[blog] <a href="https://www.taylorstacey.ca/posts/deploy-on-fridays">Queuing Deployments with Workflows and Cloud Deploy</a>. You might deploy right away, or you might choose to queue them for specific periods. This post shows one way to schedule deployments for later.

[aricle] <a href="https://thenewstack.io/platform-engineering-more-teams-now-running-3-or-more-idps/">Platform Engineering: More Teams Now Running 3 or More IDPs</a>. Why? Are these narrowly-scoped IDPs? One internal developer platform per department? Such curious data!

[blog] <a href="https://www.battery.com/blog/enterprise-tech-survey-q124/">Survey Says: AI and Data Buoy Technology Spend Planning</a>. Very interesting data in this survey. Download to flip through it to see where enterprise buyers are prioritizing their attention.

[article] <a href="https://www.itpro.com/cloud/cloud-computing/3-reasons-why-you-need-to-pay-attention-to-google-cloud-next-2024">3 reasons why you need to pay attention to Google Cloud Next 2024</a>. I&#8217;ll humbly request that you take this writer&#8217;s advice. It&#8217;s going to be a great week.

[article] <a href="https://thenewstack.io/ruby-on-rails-is-not-dead-and-may-even-be-ai-panacea-for-devs/">Ruby on Rails Is Not Dead and May Even Be AI Panacea for Devs</a>. You don&#8217;t hear a ton about Ruby in this JavaScript and Python obsessed landscape, but it&#8217;s still fairly popular.

[blog] <a href="https://bravenewgeek.com/introducing-konfig-gitlab-and-google-cloud-preconfigured-for-startups-and-enterprises/">Introducing Konfig: GitLab and Google Cloud preconfigured for startups and enterprises</a>. The folks at Real Kinetic built something they&#8217;re calling &#8220;platform as code&#8221; to establish core infrastructure for cloud teams.

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 with LLMs has gotten much easier. If you&#8217;re building training labs or just
 experimenting, you might like this pattern of running Gemma in a testcontainer.\n\n\n\n[blog]
 <a href=\"https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2024/04/05/monkigras-1/\">2024 Monki
 Gras Recap, Day 1</a>. &#8220;Prompting craft&#8221; was the theme of this
 event, and Rachel&#8217;s recap does a great job pulling out some high notes to
 learn from.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://www.taylorstacey.ca/posts/deploy-on-fridays\">Queuing
 Deployments with Workflows and Cloud Deploy</a>. You might deploy right
 away, or you might choose to queue them for specific periods. This post shows one
 way to schedule deployments for later.\n\n\n\n[aricle] <a href=\"https://thenewstack.io/platform-engineering-more-teams-now-running-3-or-more-idps/\">Platform
 Engineering: More Teams Now Running 3 or More IDPs</a>. Why? Are these
 narrowly-scoped IDPs? One internal developer platform per department? Such curious
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 Says: AI and Data Buoy Technology Spend Planning</a>. Very interesting
 data in this survey. Download to flip through it to see where enterprise buyers
 are prioritizing their attention.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://www.itpro.com/cloud/cloud-computing/3-reasons-why-you-need-to-pay-attention-to-google-cloud-next-2024\">3
 reasons why you need to pay attention to Google Cloud Next 2024</a>. I&#8217;ll
 humbly request that you take this writer&#8217;s advice. It&#8217;s going to be
 a great week.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://thenewstack.io/ruby-on-rails-is-not-dead-and-may-even-be-ai-panacea-for-devs/\">Ruby
 on Rails Is Not Dead and May Even Be AI Panacea for Devs</a>. You don&#8217;t
 hear a ton about Ruby in this JavaScript and Python obsessed landscape, but it&#8217;s
 still fairly popular.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://bravenewgeek.com/introducing-konfig-gitlab-and-google-cloud-preconfigured-for-startups-and-enterprises/\">Introducing
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