Today’s reading list has my favorite types of content: how-to guides and thoughtful analysis. There’s “how to” for becoming a CTO, serving LLMs, scaling MLOps, and testing .NET apps. And analysis about using cloud (or not), figuring out ROI, and optimizing product development for the right variable.
[repo] The Startup CTO Handbook. You can buy the book online, and also read all the content for free in this GitHub repo. Looks useful if you’re a new CTO at a startup, or anywhere.
[article] Wait, is cloud bad? Forrest does a great job thinking through the “should you use public cloud or run things yourself” debate.
[blog] TBM 249: Return on Investment (and Allocation). Thought-provoking content from John that looks at how product development efforts often think about return on investment. The piece offers a few suggestions for reframing your thinking.
[blog] Serving open-source large language models efficiently on Vertex AI Model Garden. Serving up open LLMs for your team or customers? The price/performance here looks pretty terrific.
[blog] My Top 10 DevRel Tool Categories, and Why You Should Care About Them. Good list, and it applies to many go-to-market teams as well.
[blog] How to use Testcontainers with .NET Unit Tests. Excellent walkthrough of a handful of test scenarios that use dependencies like databases.
[blog] Scaling MLOps: It takes more than just the right tech. As you set up platform engineering practices, learn from others who are doing it too. The Chick-fil-A team offers up a good outline for their MLOps platform.
[blog] Jump Start Solutions: An optimization problem and design challenge. You’ve heard the rule of thumb that you can pick two: fast, cheap, or good. When Aja was working to build the Google Cloud Jump Start Solutions, she was deciding between fast, cheap, realistic, or understandable.
[blog] How to Host and Deploy a React App with Firebase. I love “getting started” content, and this is a straightforward post that explains how to deploy a web app to Firebase.
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