Daily Reading List – August 26, 2024 (#384)

I respected summer this weekend by being outside and rejecting any retail efforts to make me buy Halloween decorations or drink pumpkin spice drinks. Stay strong!

[article] Strangler Fig. I’ll be honest with you. I’ve referred to this design pattern a few times, without having any idea why it was called that. Now I do, in this updated post from Martin.

[article] Google Brings Serverless Inference To Cloud Run Based On Nvidia GPU. Jani offers up a solid look at the “what” and “why” of offering GPUs in our hyper-scalable cloud service.

[blog] How to Design Twitter (X) in a System Design Interview? I’ve never asked the question in an interview, but I liked the step by step approach offered here.

[blog] Gemini Bounding Box Visualization. Simon uses Claude to write some code against Gemini APIs that produce a bounding box around specified objects. Cool!

[blog] Unlocking 7B+ language models in your browser: A deep dive with Google AI Edge’s MediaPipe. Take a look at this service for on-device ML solutions, as it now can handle even larger models.

[paper] Measuring Developer Goals. This new paper highlights 30 developers goals that we at Google track to help improve the developer experience for our engineers.

[blog] Manager Antipatterns. Ted calls out things that most of us in management roles have done (or are doing), and should actively try and rectify.

[article] Valkey Is a Different Kind of Fork. The team behind this Redis fork has version 8.0 coming soon. Redis itself also shipped a major version 8.

[blog] Software Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial Outcomes. Related to the Redis topic. Rachel at Redmonk looks at whether companies that did OSS license changes found later success.

[blog] Less Is More: Principles for Simple Comments. Simple post for a simple topic. Write self-contained comments that aim for simplicity.

[blog] Improve Your Next Experiment by Learning Better Proxy Metrics From Past Experiments. From the Netflix team, this looks at how to think about A/B tests and the relationship between short term and long term metrics.

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