Daily Reading List – December 4, 2024 (#453)

Another good work day, and it’s been an exciting week for the tech industry. Lots of events, announcements, and progress in key areas.

[article] 10 Ways to Supercharge Your Career. I liked the advice here. While many of us aren’t following a planned career path, there are ways to be intentional about what we do.

[blog] Listen to your first-ever 2024 Spotify Wrapped AI podcast, built with NotebookLM. What a terrific use of this technology! Get a lively audio summary of your listening habits.

[blog] Top 10 Rules of Continuous Integration. You may be doing all of this, which is excellent. If not, today’s a great day to start.

[blog] Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model. This blew my mind. Create an explorable world from a single image? That’s remarkable.

[article] Behind the platform: the journey to create the LinkedIn GenAI application tech stack. Some good details from LinkedIn engineers in this post about their generative AI stack for developers.

[blog] Svelte vs Vue.js: Compare to Make the Right Choice. Here’s a useful comparison of two popular, lightweight frontend frameworks.

[blog] Open Models on Vertex AI with Hugging Face: Custom handlers. What happens if you want AI inference using something like Hugging Face Deep Learning Containers, but have custom input/output needs? Ivan shows off the custom handlers capability.

[article] Vercel’s V0 AI: The Easiest Way to Build Web Apps. Using English as your programming language is still wild to me. Is low-code going to be a thing when compared to services like this?

[blog] New Amazon Q Developer agent capabilities include generating documentation, code reviews, and unit tests. The AWS event is in full swing, and they’ve announced some cool things. Also check out news about Amazon Q Business, Sagemaker, new foundation model Nova, Amazon S3 Tables, Aurora DSQL, and other top announcements.

[blog] The Cloud Container Iceberg. Pulumi offers up a good post on the various ways containers show up. In some cases, it’s the center of the service. In others, it’s an implementation detail.

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