Daily Reading List – October 30, 2024 (#430)

Another big reading list today. There’s a lot happening right now! Check out items below on AI agents, app modernization, and mastering conflict resolution.

[article] Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps. Can you do an incremental modernization on a mobile app? Sure, why not? ThoughtWorks folks explain it in depth.

[tutorial] Deploy and inference Gemma using Model Garden and Vertex AI GPU-backed endpoints. All these open models are terrific, but you need a way to serve them to users. This new tutorial shows how to offer up Gemma 2 for inference.

[article] Beyond Skills: Unlocking the Full Potential of Data Scientists. This article asks whether you’re using your data scientists’ talent to its fullest.

[blog] An Introduction to Astro—A Web Framework for Content-Driven Websites. So many frameworks. If you’re generating static sites, you might be looking at Astro.

[article] How to Master Conflict Resolution. Do you lean into conflict? Most don’t. I had a manager once tell me that I needed to get more comfortable with conflict. Read this to get better at it.

[blog] Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview. Model choice comes to GitHub Copilot. Use great options from Anthropic and Google in addition to OpenAI. More news from GitHub Universe.

[blog] Fuzz Testing Go HTTP Services. are you writing fuzz tests and inserting lots of valid, nearly valid, or invalid random data to your app to see what happens? Go has fuzzing baked into the standard library, and this is a great look at how to use it.

[blog] Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it’s in use. You’ve done a database migration before, yes? If so, many of the ideas in the Cloudflare post will be familiar. It’s a good story of migrating a live datastore.

[article] Salesforce AI chatbot Agentforce hits general availability. You’ll see a lot of these announcements in the coming year. Agents everywhere. It’ll be interesting to see the follow-on effect of having agents working without human intervention.

[article] Tabnine launches its code review agent. Tabnine may go below your radar, but pay attention to this shop that’s helping some of the best engineering teams write better code. More here.

[youtube-video] What are Hugging Face Deep Learning Containers? Wietse does a good job explaining what these containers do. If you’re training, fine-tuning, or running open models, you should give this a listen.

[blog] C4A VMs now GA: Our first custom Arm-based Axion CPU. It’s cool to see this now available. As are sixth-generation TPU chips.

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