Daily Reading List – June 26, 2024 (#347)

I like East Coast trips because my West Coast meeting times don’t kick in until late morning. The downside? It’s relentless after that. In today’s reading list, I can across some solid advice on a variety of topics.

[blog] Unlock the Power of Conversational AI: RAG 101 with Gemini & LangChain. The post is accompanied by a notebook if you want to follow along with this scenario.

[article] Survey Surfaces Varying Levels of Enthusiasm for AI Coding Tools. Execs are ready to go on AI-assisted coding, developers not as enthusiastic. And I’m surprised that so few are running POCs to help introduce these tools.

[article] AI Work Assistants Need a Lot of Handholding. This Wall Street Journal piece looks at productivity tools, and features a short silly quote from me.

[article] The Right Way to Go “All In”. Good piece that talks about striving for greatness not JUST be being obsessive about one “identity”, but by maintaining your self-complexity.

[blog] Tips for troubleshooting Google Cloud Load Balancing backends. Whether on-premises or in the cloud, your application traffic doesn’t follow a straight path from the user to the app. There’s lots of proxy components in between, and it’s helpful to know how to troubleshoot them!

[article] Building a Platform Team at a 153-Year-Old Company. Here’s a nice roadmap for those with a deeply established IT team that wants to embrace an engineering transformation.

[article] Why Cross-Functional Collaboration Stalls, and How to Fix It. The answer is not “better executive alignment” which I found refreshing. Read this for ways to fix your “collaboration drag.”

[blog] Advancing systems research: Synthesized Google storage I/O traces now available to the community. Do you want 2.5 billion storage I/O traces from Google? I don’t know your life; maybe this is the best day ever for you. Either way, it’s cool that we’re opening up this data for others to access and explore.

[blog] Old Books that Every Architect Should Read. Plenty of tech books slink into irrelevance once a new version of software gets released, or the industry trends shift significantly. But others remain fairly timeless, as Gregor points out here.

[article] DevTools Marketing That Works, According to Developers Themselves. Adam offers up some good advice for those trying to authentically market their developer tools to a skeptical audience.

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