Daily Reading List – December 17, 2024 (#462)

I’m sensing some senioritis among co-workers who are getting ready to punch out for the holiday break. Today was a packed day, and tomorrow is too. But it’s clear that work is winding down. For you too?

[article] 4 Listening Skills Leaders Need to Master. I liked this list. A few of these felt new, or at least phrased differently than I’ve heard before.

[blog] FACTS Grounding: A new benchmark for evaluating the factuality of large language models. This appears to be an important release from the Google DeepMind team. Can we find a common way to measure an LLM’s ability to return factual data? Now we can.

[blog] Measure What Matters. Good observability perspectives from Honeycomb here. With bonus YouTube video.

[article] Introducing the DX Core 4. Speaking of measurement, how should you measure dev experience? This post shows off a new unified framework, and this related post digs into benchmark values.

[blog] Reach beyond the IDE with tools for Gemini Code Assist. There’s been a rolling thunder of good releases for this AI-assisted dev tool from Google Cloud. Now, stay in flow by bringing in data from GitLab, GitHub, Sentry, Atlassian, and Google Docs. News here, here, and here.

[article] The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024. Who’s the next big thing? Nobody knows. But there lurking out there, doing cool stuff. Here’s a list of those doing disruptive things.

[blog] Preferring throwaway code over design docs. The idea of using a draft pull request to propose software design ideas is cool. Maybe quit with the giant upfront design in 2025, and get to work prototyping faster?

[blog] BazelCon 2024: A celebration of community and the launch of Bazel 8. There’s a passionate community around this multi-platform, multi-language build system.

[blog] The 3 top mistakes of managers under 30. These sound familiar, and can still be issues as you get past 30!

[blog] Migrating Chainguard’s Serving Infrastructure to Cloud Run. Where you start running your software may not be where it ends up. That’s ok. Chainguard started with Kubernetes, and moved to our serverless container service for a simple setup.

[blog] Your Perfect Infrastructure May Not Be So Perfect. Back to upfront design. It’s hard! This post on the Pulumi blog looks at change-ready architecture.

[article] Is Your Internal Developer Platform Missing Orchestration? Daniel does a good job exploring the approaches one might take in building out a platform.

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