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I spent the weekend recovering from Cloud Next. I played some miniature golf, went to a Little League game, and took my daughter to a dance at her school. That band rocked hard (too hard?) for a bunch of kids, but all the dads appreciated the guitar solo in Boston&#8217;s &#8220;More Than a Feeling.&#8221;

[article] <a href="https://stratechery.com/2024/an-interview-with-google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-about-googles-enterprise-ai-strategy/">An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy</a>. This was a fun read. Thomas deeply knows what he&#8217;s talking about, and I loved the insights shared here.

[blog] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/google-cloud-next-2024-wrap-up?e=48754805">All 218 things we announced at Google Cloud Next ‘24 – a recap</a>. Skim through to get a sense of what you can now do in Google Cloud. And, you&#8217;ll likely get a foreshadowing of what you&#8217;ll see from other clouds in the months and years ahead <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />

[article] <a href="https://review.firstround.com/build-your-culture-like-a-product-lessons-from-asanas-head-of-people/">Build Your Culture Like a Product — Lessons from Asana’s Head of People</a>. Do you think about intentionally building culture, or does it &#8220;just happen&#8221;? I liked the advice in this article.

[blog] <a href="https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/cybersecurity-isnt-special/">Cybersecurity Isn’t Special</a>. Wow, this piece stood out to me today. It&#8217;s full of assertive, edgy perspectives from someone credible enough to make these statements. Good read.

[blog] <a href="https://beam.incubator.apache.org/blog/beam-yaml-release/">Introducing Beam YAML: Apache Beam&#8217;s First No-code SDK</a>. It&#8217;s not unnatural to represent a data pipeline in a declarative fashion, so this makes sense to me.

[repo] <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/generative-ai/tree/main/gemini/sample-apps/fixmycar">Fix My Car</a>. Here&#8217;s a complete reference app that you can deploy to try out retrieval augmented generation (RAG) on Google Cloud. Or, you can simply study the architecture to understand the components of such a system.

[article] <a href="https://hbr.org/2024/04/4-reasons-why-managers-fail">4 Reasons Why Managers Fail</a>. It&#8217;s not because of skills! This article calls out the handful of ways that managers fail, and how you can prevent it.

[article] <a href="https://www.ciodive.com/news/generative-ai-ROI-enterprise-progress/712832/">Generative AI’s ROI is a work in progress</a>. Not yet settled, but the it&#8217;s not hard to see where value will come from.

[article] <a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/uncovering-mainframe-seams.html#DataReplicationToEnableNewProductDevelopment">Uncovering the Seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation: Data Replication</a>. The final update to this article is complete, and it walks us through change data capture and replication techniques.

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summary: Today's links look at everything Google announced at Cloud Next, why cybersecurity
 isn't special, and the four reasons managers fail.
content: "\nI spent the weekend recovering from Cloud Next. I played some miniature
 golf, went to a Little League game, and took my daughter to a dance at her school.
 That band rocked hard (too hard?) for a bunch of kids, but all the dads appreciated
 the guitar solo in Boston&#8217;s &#8220;More Than a Feeling.&#8221;\n\n\n\n[article]
 <a href=\"https://stratechery.com/2024/an-interview-with-google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-about-googles-enterprise-ai-strategy/\">An
 Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy</a>.
 This was a fun read. Thomas deeply knows what he&#8217;s talking about, and I loved
 the insights shared here.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/google-cloud-next-2024-wrap-up?e=48754805\">All
 218 things we announced at Google Cloud Next ‘24 – a recap</a>. Skim through
 to get a sense of what you can now do in Google Cloud. And, you&#8217;ll likely
 get a foreshadowing of what you&#8217;ll see from other clouds in the months and
 years ahead <img src=\"https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f642.png\"
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 <a href=\"https://review.firstround.com/build-your-culture-like-a-product-lessons-from-asanas-head-of-people/\">Build
 Your Culture Like a Product — Lessons from Asana’s Head of People</a>.
 Do you think about intentionally building culture, or does it &#8220;just happen&#8221;?
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 Isn’t Special</a>. Wow, this piece stood out to me today. It&#8217;s full
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 Good read.\n\n\n\n[blog] <a href=\"https://beam.incubator.apache.org/blog/beam-yaml-release/\">Introducing
 Beam YAML: Apache Beam&#8217;s First No-code SDK</a>. It&#8217;s not unnatural
 to represent a data pipeline in a declarative fashion, so this makes sense to me.\n\n\n\n[repo]
 <a href=\"https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/generative-ai/tree/main/gemini/sample-apps/fixmycar\">Fix
 My Car</a>. Here&#8217;s a complete reference app that you can deploy to
 try out retrieval augmented generation (RAG) on Google Cloud. Or, you can simply
 study the architecture to understand the components of such a system.\n\n\n\n[article]
 <a href=\"https://hbr.org/2024/04/4-reasons-why-managers-fail\">4 Reasons
 Why Managers Fail</a>. It&#8217;s not because of skills! This article calls
 out the handful of ways that managers fail, and how you can prevent it.\n\n\n\n[article]
 <a href=\"https://www.ciodive.com/news/generative-ai-ROI-enterprise-progress/712832/\">Generative
 AI’s ROI is a work in progress</a>. Not yet settled, but the it&#8217;s
 not hard to see where value will come from.\n\n\n\n[article] <a href=\"https://martinfowler.com/articles/uncovering-mainframe-seams.html#DataReplicationToEnableNewProductDevelopment\">Uncovering
 the Seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation: Data Replication</a>.
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