Episode description

Intro topic:  Social Media Auto Responder LLM

News/Links:

• Amazon releases Amazon Q
  • https://press.aboutamazon.com/2024/4/aws-announces-general-availability-of-amazon-q-the-most-capable-generative-ai-powered-assistant-for-accelerating-software-development-and-leveraging-companies-internal-data
• Cheap RiscV “Super Cluster” from Bitluni
  • DIY 256-Core RISC-V super computer
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4d3PgEXhdY
  • CH32V203
• Phi 3 Vision Released
  • https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-models-added-to-the-phi-3-family-available-on-microsoft-azure/
  • Ollama
• ChatGPT 4o
  • https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/
    
    

Book of the Show

• Patrick: MyFirstMillion Podcast
  • https://www.mfmpod.com/
• Jason: A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence
  • https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf

Patreon https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h

Tool of the Show

• Patrick: Dave the Diver
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868140/DAVE_THE_DIVER/
• Jason: Turing Complete
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/ 

Topic: DevOps

• What is DevOps
  • DevOps vs SRE
• Why DevOps is important
  • Engineering time is expensive
  • Outages can hurt company metrics & reputation
• Build & Testing Infrastructure
  • Bazel & Build/Test Idempotency
  • Build/Test Farms
  • BuildBarn
  • Github Actions
  • Jenkins
• Infrastructure as code
  • Terraform
  • Blue Green Deployment
• Continuous Everything!
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Deployment
• How to Measure DevOps
  • Build Times
  • Release cadence
  • Bug tracking / round trip times
  • Engineer Surveys
    • Time spent doing what you enjoy
• DevOps Horror Stories