Daily Reading List – May 29, 2024 (#328)

I found lots of good advice in today’s reading list, and I hope you do too.

[article] Reducing Code Review Time at Google. This article looks at a recent paper from us that covers how we use a code review assistant to help us improve productivity.

[article] What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I). There’s a whole lot of advice in this big, useful post up on O’Reilly. Dig in for legit guidance on prompting, information retrieval, tuning, and more.

[article] Bertrand Russell: On Avoiding Foolish Opinions. A spicy take, but a warranted one for many of us who want to be better thinkers.

[blog] App Hosting vs. the original Hosting: Which one do I use? Firebase is running on all cylinders right now. This is a well-done post that explains their new App Hosting service, and when to choose it.

[blog] What’s New in Angular 18? I’m still not going to become a frontend guy, but I do like staying aware of what’s new and relevant in this space.

[blog] Continuous delivery without a CI server. Do you need a build system? Not for every app or every team. This post looks at a case where it wasn’t needed.

[blog] Adding Context to Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Gemini Function Calling and MongoDB Atlas. Here’s a deep walkthrough of a scenario where you look up supporting info in MongoDB to support your LLM queries.

[blog] A Tale of Two Functions : Function calling in Gemini. Check out this related post for even more about function calling. This is a key LLM pattern, and it’s worth understanding the fundamentals.

[article] 3 Ways to Clearly Communicate Your Company’s Strategy. I liked this. A lot can go into developing a strategy, and it may be hard to succinctly summarize it. These are good options.

[blog] I made a new cartoon thing for you to try. Forrest creates good cartoons, and now you can access high quality versions for a fee.

[blog] Solving the Dual-Write Problem: Effective Strategies for Atomic Updates Across Systems. What patterns are at your disposal when you need an all-or-nothing write to two systems? This Confluent post explores your options.

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