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Today was a partial workday as I caught up on (most) email as well as my reading backlog from the week. I&#8217;ll take the weekend to recover physically and mentally from an exhausting week, and should be ready to roll by Monday.

[blog] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/next24-day-2-recap/?e=48754805">Day 2 at Next ’24 recap: building AI agents</a>. Here was a good roundup of our activities on day 2.

[article] <a href="https://stratechery.com/2024/gemini-1-5-and-googles-nature/">Gemini 1.5 and Google’s Nature</a>. I enjoy reading positive takes, but I also have been looking to see what the savviest folks thought of Cloud Next. This indicates we landed a powerful message.

[blog] <a href="https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-threat-to-open-source-comes-from">The threat to open source comes from within</a>. Forrest explores ideas around that XZ fiasco and how OSS might have saved the day, versus been the cause. He also connects this to recent hoopla with Terraform and OpenTofu.

[article] <a href="https://thenewstack.io/how-do-open-source-licenses-work-the-ultimate-guide/">How Do Open Source Licenses Work? The Ultimate Guide</a>. Speaking of open source, this article goes fairly keep into licensing, and offers a useful education for users and leaders.

[blog] <a href="https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeycomb-google-next-gemini">Honeycomb + Google Gemini</a>. The Honeycomb team goes into more depth regarding their demonstration with us on stage at Cloud Next.

[blog] <a href="https://kaslin.rocks/ai-kubernetes/">AI and Kubernetes</a>. Kaslin is learning in public, and I love that. Here is her take on different types of AI workloads and where Kubernetes plays a part.

[article] <a href="https://thenewstack.io/3-reasons-tech-execs-are-slowing-down-genai-projects/">3 Reasons Tech Execs Are Slowing Down GenAI Projects</a>. Trust matters. These reasons don&#8217;t surprise me.

[blog] <a href="https://8thlight.com/insights/managing-technical-debt">Managing Technical Debt</a>. I&#8217;m not sure you can ever &#8220;prevent&#8221; tech debt—like financial debt, some tech debt can even be &#8220;good&#8221; to have—but it&#8217;s something that needs to be managed.

[article] <a href="https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/software-developers-learning">10 things software developers should learn about learning</a>. The best people I work with don&#8217;t just know many things; they&#8217;re good at learning the next thing. Learning how to learn is how you separate from the pack.

[article] <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/beginners-guide-to-langchain/">How to Use LangChain to Build With LLMs – A Beginner&#8217;s Guide</a>. This is an excellent introduction to LangChain, and you can follow along yourself with Colab.

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summary: Today's links look at how open source licenses work, where AI and Kubernetes
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 as my reading backlog from the week. I&#8217;ll take the weekend to recover physically
 and mentally from an exhausting week, and should be ready to roll by Monday.\n\n\n\n[blog]
 <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/next24-day-2-recap/?e=48754805\">Day
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 we landed a powerful message.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-threat-to-open-source-comes-from\">The
 threat to open source comes from within</a>. Forrest explores ideas around
 that XZ fiasco and how OSS might have saved the day, versus been the cause. He also
 connects this to recent hoopla with Terraform and OpenTofu.\n\n\n\n[article]
 <a href=\"https://thenewstack.io/how-do-open-source-licenses-work-the-ultimate-guide/\">How
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 href=\"https://thenewstack.io/3-reasons-tech-execs-are-slowing-down-genai-projects/\">3
 Reasons Tech Execs Are Slowing Down GenAI Projects</a>. Trust matters.
 These reasons don&#8217;t surprise me.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://8thlight.com/insights/managing-technical-debt\">Managing
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 tech debt—like financial debt, some tech debt can even be &#8220;good&#8221; to
 have—but it&#8217;s something that needs to be managed.\n\n\n\n[article]
 <a href=\"https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/software-developers-learning\">10
 things software developers should learn about learning</a>. The best people
 I work with don&#8217;t just know many things; they&#8217;re good at learning the
 next thing. Learning how to learn is how you separate from the pack.\n\n\n\n[article]
 <a href=\"https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/beginners-guide-to-langchain/\">How
 to Use LangChain to Build With LLMs – A Beginner&#8217;s Guide</a>. This
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