Daily Reading List – April 17, 2025 (#535)
Today’s reading list is chock-full of advice. Whether you’re hiring people, leading teams, planning AI agents, or dealing with disappointment, there’s something for you.
[blog] Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash. Big week for AI models—there were some excellent OpenAI releases—and this preview edition of Gemini 2.5 Flash has outstanding benchmark results.
[blog] Build AI Agents your way on Google Cloud. There’s more than one approach to building AI agents, and Karl iterates through some of the decision points along the way.
[article] What factors influence the well-being of software engineers? Not surprisingly, what happens in our home life impacts us at work. As does our workload and deadlines.
[article] Tech hiring: is this an inflection point? If you haven’t changed your hiring process in this AI era, you’ve made a big mistake. Gergely points out why remote hiring approaches can’t be trusted any longer.
[blog] Kubernetes Configuration and Infrastructure as Code Taxonomy. Love this. Our industry is so full of jargon and insider terms. Brian defines dozens of them here.
[blog] College students in the U.S. are now eligible for the best of Google AI — and 2 TB storage — for free. Amazing offer for college kids. I’ll be signing mine up when he starts in the Fall.
[article] 6 assumptions engineering managers make (and engineers hate). Such a good reminder. Don’t bring the same playbook or style to each team or person.
[blog] Is it just me, or is Google Cloud (Run) Function way easier to handle than AWS Lambda? It’s not just him. We’ve been doing more to advance in fully managed computing than anyone else. Glad folks are noticing!
[blog] A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs. This seems like reasonable advice to me. It’s more cynical than I am, and I do expect many of these areas to tighten up quickly.
[blog] Testing Will Become More Important, Not Less. Agreed. If your testing skills are weak, now’s a great time to invest more in your knowledge and technique.
[article] BigQuery is 5x bigger than Snowflake and Databricks: What Google is doing to make it even better. The is one of the services at the heart of Google Cloud, and represents a modern way to analyze data and perform data science.
[article] 6 Ways to Deal with Disappointment Strategically. Unless you take an aim low approach, you’ll inevitably get disappointed. Good advice here on bouncing back.
[blog] Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2. It’s sorta crazy that we’re making this technology available for free in different spots. Including Google AI Studio.
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