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It&#8217;s the day before Google Cloud Next starts, so I&#8217;m spending it doing some final prep and hanging out with my team in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, the tech world keeps going &#8217;round, and I read some good items today.

[blog] <a href="https://medium.com/google-cloud/fine-tuning-large-language-models-how-vertex-ai-takes-llms-to-the-next-level-3c113f4007da">Fine Tuning Large Language Models: How Vertex AI Takes LLMs to the Next Level</a>. Here&#8217;s one of the more approachable articles I&#8217;ve read about fine tuning. Abi does such a great job explaining a use case and the steps that anyone can follow to repeat her exercise.

[article] <a href="https://www.ciodive.com/news/banks-cloud-mainframe-generative-ai-strategy/712327/">Banking’s mainframe strategies shift as boards push for AI, cloud</a>. Mainframes remain a very important source of data and computing power at many big companies.

[article] <a href="https://www.ciodive.com/news/ibm-mainframe-sixty-years-anniversary-cloud-skills/712325/">As mainframes turn 60, skill gaps threaten the enterprise workhorse</a>. Two mainframe articles in one day? I gotta keep you guessing. This is a longer-form piece that explores the staffing opportunity and challenge around mainframes.

[article] <a href="https://thenewstack.io/shifting-left-is-now-mainstream-for-developers-or-is-it/">Shifting Left Is Now Mainstream for Developers, or Is It?</a> This looks primarily at security-related activities (and vendors) that apply early in the dev cycle.

[blog] <a href="https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/creativity-in-software-engineering">Creativity in Software Engineering</a>. Abi looks at that research paper from Google and pulls out the key takeaways.

[article] <a href="https://hbr.org/2024/04/corporate-learning-is-boring-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be">Corporate Learning Is Boring — But It Doesn’t Have to Be</a>. We&#8217;re not talking that boring, obligatory training we all have to take. This is about the sort of training we want to take, but it doesn&#8217;t engage us well.

[article] <a href="https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-trends-2024/">InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report &#8211; April 2024</a>. The crew at InfoQ create these reports to show what is mainstream, and what&#8217;s emerging. It&#8217;s useful to do this sort of exercise for your own company to figure out what&#8217;s recommended versus incubated.

[guide] <a href="https://dora.dev/guides/dora-metrics-four-keys/">DORA’s software delivery metrics: the four keys</a>. Nathen offers up a useful deep dive into the four key indicators of a high performing organization. I like the &#8220;pitfalls&#8221; section.

[article] <a href="https://www.infoq.com/presentations/communication-patterns-resilience/">How Do We Talk to Each Other? How Surfacing Communication Patterns in Organizations Can Help You Understand and Improve Your Resilience</a>. Nora has a great talk about how people talk to each other and work together. She explains the impact on scenarios like incident management.

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content: "\nIt&#8217;s the day before Google Cloud Next starts, so I&#8217;m spending
 it doing some final prep and hanging out with my team in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, the
 tech world keeps going &#8217;round, and I read some good items today.\n\n\n\n[blog]
 <a href=\"https://medium.com/google-cloud/fine-tuning-large-language-models-how-vertex-ai-takes-llms-to-the-next-level-3c113f4007da\">Fine
 Tuning Large Language Models: How Vertex AI Takes LLMs to the Next Level</a>.
 Here&#8217;s one of the more approachable articles I&#8217;ve read about fine tuning.
 Abi does such a great job explaining a use case and the steps that anyone can follow
 to repeat her exercise.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://www.ciodive.com/news/banks-cloud-mainframe-generative-ai-strategy/712327/\">Banking’s
 mainframe strategies shift as boards push for AI, cloud</a>. Mainframes
 remain a very important source of data and computing power at many big companies.
 \n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://www.ciodive.com/news/ibm-mainframe-sixty-years-anniversary-cloud-skills/712325/\">As
 mainframes turn 60, skill gaps threaten the enterprise workhorse</a>. Two
 mainframe articles in one day? I gotta keep you guessing. This is a longer-form
 piece that explores the staffing opportunity and challenge around mainframes.\n\n\n\n[article]
 <a href=\"https://thenewstack.io/shifting-left-is-now-mainstream-for-developers-or-is-it/\">Shifting
 Left Is Now Mainstream for Developers, or Is It?</a> This looks primarily
 at security-related activities (and vendors) that apply early in the dev cycle.\n\n\n\n[blog]
 <a href=\"https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/creativity-in-software-engineering\">Creativity
 in Software Engineering</a>. Abi looks at that research paper from Google
 and pulls out the key takeaways.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://hbr.org/2024/04/corporate-learning-is-boring-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be\">Corporate
 Learning Is Boring — But It Doesn’t Have to Be</a>. We&#8217;re not talking
 that boring, obligatory training we all have to take. This is about the sort of
 training we want to take, but it doesn&#8217;t engage us well.\n\n\n\n[article]
 <a href=\"https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-trends-2024/\">InfoQ
 Software Architecture and Design Trends Report &#8211; April 2024</a>.
 The crew at InfoQ create these reports to show what is mainstream, and what&#8217;s
 emerging. It&#8217;s useful to do this sort of exercise for your own company to
 figure out what&#8217;s recommended versus incubated.\n\n\n\n[guide] <a
 href=\"https://dora.dev/guides/dora-metrics-four-keys/\">DORA’s software delivery
 metrics: the four keys</a>. Nathen offers up a useful deep dive into the
 four key indicators of a high performing organization. I like the &#8220;pitfalls&#8221;
 section.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://www.infoq.com/presentations/communication-patterns-resilience/\">How
 Do We Talk to Each Other? How Surfacing Communication Patterns in Organizations
 Can Help You Understand and Improve Your Resilience</a>. Nora has a great
 talk about how people talk to each other and work together. She explains the impact
 on scenarios like incident management.\n\n\n\n##\n\n\n\nWant to get
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