Daily Reading List – February 5, 2024 (#254)

It’s a short week for me as I’m departing on an international trip on Friday. Much of today was spent chatting with Google Cloud Next speakers and plotting our developer keynote. I also read some fairly provocative items today, which you’ll find below.

[blog] Building Your Own Search Engine with Vertex AI Search. This walks through a very cool way to create a personalized search experience with your own data, and embed the results in an app or web page.

[article] 5 Bottlenecks Impacting RAG Pipeline Efficiency in Production. I’d bet that many folks are in the “learn” stage versus the “optimize” stage, but Jani offers useful advice for things to consider before taking your retrieval augmented generation process to production.

[article] Could Remote Work Hurt On-the-Job Learning? This wouldn’t be a popular take among the tech folks in my circle, but we should be exposed to counter viewpoints, no? Is remote work hurting our personal development?

[blog] Is it time to ditch MySQL and PostgreSQL for SQLite? I saw a lot of chatter lately about this underrated database. Is it the right choice for “real” workloads? Many say yes.

[article] Microsoft’s New Future of Work Report. This provides an overview of work from Microsoft about AI in the workplace. In the years ahead, they see analysis as a more important AI use case than generation.

[blog] We Forgot Frontend Basics. Do all these fancy frameworks cause us to forget the fundamentals? The author here says that there’s basic HTML and CSS that is a substitute for a dozen lines of complex JavaScript. Related post I read today.

[blog] You are never taught how to build quality software. There are many things that I wasn’t explicitly “taught.” That’s likely a problem. Do we just “teach” the basics of management, architecture, programming, and whatever, and leave the deep learning to on-the-job experience?

[article] Deutsche Börse Group overcomes “hesitant stakeholders, cautious regulators” moves ERP to GCP. Good story about an environment that has to “just work”, but also where innovation matters long-term.

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