As hoped for, I mostly skipped doing work this weekend and spent longer-than-expected building an Apollo 11 lunar lander with one of my kids. We had fun. Today was back to the work that pays for these Lego sets.
[article] Non-Obvious Signs of Early Startup Traction — And How to Spot Them. For founders, but I think this also applies for any major endeavor. Are you missing the signs that things are actually starting to take off?
[blog] Building LLM-powered applications in Go. Eli reminds us that the vast majority of “AI apps” are really just like apps that call LLMs. He shows off a handful of ways to create a RAG server in Go.
[blog] The Top 50 Tips for Better Angular Development. None of that “five hints” or “three best ways” stuff here. We’re going for the full fifty tips. Good guidance for frontend devs.
[blog] Grounding AI in reality with a little help from Data Commons. I shared this new DataGemma model last week, and this Google Research paper goes deeper into the idea of “grounded AI.”
[blog] Open Source Foundations Considered Helpful. Do open source foundations just exist to throw lavish conferences? Nah. They add legit value, as James points out here.
[blog] Unit Testing in Beam: An opinionated guide. I can’t say I’ve seen a lot of guidance around how to test data pipelines. Here’s direction on unit tests.
[blog] RAG API. Here’s a good post about a managed solution for augmenting your LLM requests with customized data sources. I hadn’t tried this service out yet, and now i want to.
[youtube-video] Safe RAG for LLMs. *Three* RAG pieces today? Let’s embrace the discomfort. I liked this video which looked at patterns for RAG that avoid data leakage.
[article] Predicting developer attrition. How do you know a developer is on their way out the door? This paper looks at attrition and notes how burnout prevention and “opportunities to learn” are big factors.
[article] Why Companies Should Consolidate Tech Roles in the C-Suite. is tech leadership distributed within your company? Is there a single go-to person who’s accountable? The article says consolidation is happening.
[blog] How EA Sports protects their game servers with Cloud Armor. I didn’t know gaming was such a top target for DDoS attacks. Being able to protect yourself with a Google-scale managed service is a big deal.
[blog] 2030 HFS Services Technology Vision: The Future of Services is No Services. Service as software. That’s what’s being proposed here as a way to get out of the tech debt spiral.
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