Daily Reading List – May 7, 2025 (#547)
A newsletter I subscribe to made the point that “What separates good work from great isn’t talent but persistence; the most successful people aren’t those who feel motivated all the time; they’re the ones who work even when they don’t feel like it.” That describes me with this reading list. I don’t ALWAYS feel like reading for an hour or two and summarizing my findings. But I value discipline and dependability, which helps me power through.
[blog] Nine Emerging Developer Patterns for the AI Era. Super interesting post that will absolutely expand your thinking about how and where you could be using AI in useful ways.
[blog] AI-Powered Documentation: The Secret to Efficient Technical Writing. Here’s a good example of another domain that could be positively impacted by generative AI. Our team is doing a handful of the items listed here.
[blog] Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview. Get better images, more of them, and with better handling of text. Try it for free!
[article] Be Creative: ThePrimeagen’s Five-Hour Interview With Lex Fridman. It’s easy to ignore that online personalities are regular folks too. I liked this look at someone who’s blown up online, and has a fascinating backstory.
[youtube-video] Interview with Richard Seroter: Unveiling Google Cloud’s AI Strategy. This title gives me too much credit. But this was a fun, wide-ranging chat with two smart folks. And me.
[article] Pulumi’s New Internal Developer Platform Accelerates Cloud Infrastructure Delivery. The IDP space is heating up. Pulumni is now a player. More coverage here.
[article] Characterizing a high-functioning team. Abi looks at some recent research into measuring team collaboration and shares some conclusions.
[blog] What is the Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol? Really good look at what this thing is, why it matters, and when you’d actually use it.
[article] Microsoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agents. A2A is building momentum, as evident by Microsoft jumping on board.
[blog] Heroku in 2025. I have a soft spot for Heroku as one of those earliest options for “just make it easy to run a web app.” I wonder if it can stand out in this more crowded, modern landscape.
[blog] Key Learnings from Creating Multi-Tenant GKE Clusters on Google Cloud with Thousands of Publicly Addressable Services. You’re doing a SaaS-like system where multiple distinct tenants share a single Kubernetes cluster? Here are some pieces of advice.
[blog] 10+ Data Regulations All API Developers Should Know About. Skim the list and at least be aware of these, even if they don’t impact your day to day work.
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