2024 WK13
Golden Path, Griffin, Platform 101, Be Happier, Vlogger
How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem
The Golden Path — as we define it today — is the ‘opinionated and supported’ path to ‘build something’ (for example, build a backend service, put up a website, create a data pipeline). Read more about this concept at Spotify. (4min read)
Griffin, an Anti-fraud Risk Rule Engine Making Billions of Predictions Daily
Good read about data orchestration and rule engine. (11 min read)
Gregor Hohpe In The Engineering Room Ep. 24
Gregor Hohpe sharing about Platform 101. (50 min watch)
How to be happier in 5 steps with zero weird tricks
Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos recommends a set of practices. By understanding the common pitfalls of our thinking and adopting new behaviours, we can achieve true happiness and make it last. For Santos, happiness isn’t just a state; it’s an ongoing practice. (8 min watch)
VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesis
A method for text and audio-driven talking human video generation from a single input image of a person, which builds on the success of recent generative diffusion models. (3 min read)