Daily Reading List – April 23, 2025 (#537)
Today’s my Monday after spending the first two days of this week in Texas visiting my son’s future college. Great trip. Now digging out from a couple of days of email and unread blog posts. Expect some big reading lists this week!
[blog] YouTube is turning 20! “Unbox” some of the latest features to celebrate. Happy birthday to this platform that has positively impacted so many people.
[article] The many fallacies of ‘AI won’t take your job, but someone using AI will’. Oof, I’ve used that line. I won’t any more. This article explores why that’s a false framing.
[article] Tutorial: GPU-Accelerated Serverless Inference With Google Cloud Run. Simple, yet powerful example of what you can do with a modern app platform.
[article] Devs and DBAs can’t find peace, but could they call a truce? At my last few companies, we didn’t have dedicated DBAs so I’m farther removed from the current state of this tension.
[blog] How to think about agent frameworks. The gloves are off! LangChain folks took umbrage at OpenAI’s guidance for building agents and published a terrific piece on agentic systems and agent frameworks.
[blog] Firebase Studio + Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) — build multi-agent apps from web IDE. Cloud-based dev environments make it simpler to try out and iterate on fast-moving agentic apps.
[blog] Microservices to Monolith. Monolithic apps are cool again after microservices fatigue, but Derek has a provocative question to consider.
[paper] Creating benchmarkable components to measure the quality of AI-enhanced developer tools. There’s no shortage of benchmarks for AI models. Less so for products built with generative AI. This paper explores an approach to fixing that.
[blog] SaaS delivery made easy: Meet SaaS Runtime. Designing, deploying, and operating multi-tenant solutions is no joke. Make the wrong choice and you’ve got a management nightmare. This new managed offering looks like a nice way to reduce risk.
[blog] Google Cloud Next 2025’s Developer Keynote: Agents Take Center Stage. Devin’s a good analyst, and I’m not just saying that because he wrote about our dev keynote.
[blog] CI/CD Security Best Practices. I’d venture that most aren’t probably GREAT at securing their automated deployment pipelines, so advice like this is still helpful.
[blog] Spring Cloud Data Flow End of Open-Source. It’s interesting to see one project in an OSS ecosystem suddenly go commercial and closed source.
[article] Why CIOs should prioritize IT modernization. I don’t see how you have any chance to succeed with technology over the next decade if you don’t have some modern fundamentals in place.
[blog] Google Cloud Database and LangChain integrations now support Go, Java, and JavaScript. AI apps aren’t just for Python devs. You’re seeing frameworks increase their support for other languages.
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