Happy New Year! I’m back with the first edition of the Reading List for 2025. I trust you took some time over this holiday break to recharge. Let’s have some fun together this year.
[article] Our Favorite Management Tips of 2024. Very good categories here, including leadership skills to develop, building executive presence, writing skills, and asking smarter questions.
[article] How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths. Sheesh, this is awesome. My colleague Addy takes over the Pragmatic Engineer newsletter for this edition to give some straight talk on AI assisted dev tools.
[blog] Cognitive load is what matters. Excellent post that we should all take to heart. What are we doing to reduce the extraneous, unnecessary cognitive load on our peers or customers?
[docs] Choose Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka or Pub/Sub. I like docs like this which outline the benefits and tradeoffs between a set of managed services.
[blog] Go Developer Survey 2024 H2 Results. Check out the results from 4000+ Go developers. You’ll find good insights into how they’re using AI, challenges within teams, and more.
[article] Bing is doing its best Google Search impression anytime you look up the word Google. Yeesh. I tried it out, which probably gives Bing more traffic than it’s used to getting!
[article] What engineering managers need to know for 2025. Who knows what this year holds, but these represent some useful categories to consider.
[blog] The 12 Anti-factors of Infrastructure as Code. You might be doing some of these practices and thinking you’re following the best ideas. Brian pushes back on some mainstream practices.
[blog] The PyTorch developer’s guide to JAX fundamentals. If you love PyTorch, use PyTorch. If you’re intrigued by the performance and ecosystem of JAX, this post will help you map some of the familiar concepts.
[blog] Open ML News – Holidays Edition. My daily summaries are often fed by other people’s aggregated summaries. Omar recaps some of the most interesting open model news.
[article] From AI agents to enterprise budgets, 20 VCs share their predictions on enterprise tech in 2025. Where do VCs want to invest in 2025, what’s hot besides AI, and what’s going to happen with enterprise IT budgets? Good questions and answers here.
[article] 25 experts predict how AI will change business and life in 2025. Is the time horizon off? Or the predictions too unrealistic? I don’t know, but it’s useful to see where smart folks see things going.
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