Daily Reading List – October 15, 2024 (#419)

Check out a mix of content in today’s reading list. The one on “red flags from hiring managers” got me thinking of interviews I’ve conducted recently. FYI, you’re not as stealth using ChatGPT or Gemini as you think you are 🙂

[blog] Ray Batch Inference at Pinterest (Part 3). The team at Pinterest has seen better performance and lower cost by using the Ray framework for offline batch interference of ML models.

[article] Friday Forward – Great Company. What are the traits of a great company? Bob says it’s about a product/service people love, great culture and people, and operational excellence.

[blog] Advanced RAG Techniques. The slides and video here will definitely up your game on retrieval augmented generation. I’m impressed with how the topic is covered.

[blog] Using API keys (and other sensitive data) in a Colab notebook. It takes extra effort to stash credentials in a safe place versus just hard-coding them into an app or notebook. Alicia shows one way to securely store and use API keys.

[article] The 4 Interview Red Flags Hiring Managers Say Concern Them Most. These are definitely caution areas, and this post has good advice on how to avoid making these mistakes.

[article] How Fireship became YouTube’s favorite programmer. I’ll admit that I’m not a “watch YouTube videos for hours” kinda guy, but it’s easy to go down the rabbit hole with Fireship videos. And I learn a bunch about tech!

[blog] Google Pipe Syntax: Modernizing SQL Without Sacrificing its Strengths. I’m getting worn down by all the pipe syntax content lately, and will likely give in and try using it.

[article] Internal Developer Platform: Insights from Conversations with Over 100 Experts. An IDP can be pretty much whatever someone wants it to be. This post looks at a maturity model, how to assess your own approach, whether to build or buy, and more.

[blog] How Low Can You Go? An Analysis of 2023 Time-to-Exploit Trends. it’s getting risky out there! Make sure you at least have a strong patching system in place.

[blog] Firebase Data Connect: now in public preview! I’m going to get hands-on with this myself, as it seems like a remarkably developer-friendly way to access robust database services.

[blog] The challenge presented by Secrets in declarative configuration. Good topic and one that matters for those who are creating lots of Terraform all over the place!

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