Daily Reading List – January 17, 2025 (#475)

This definitely felt like the first week “back” from the holiday break. Everyone and everything was at full speed. We’ve got a three day weekend here in the States, so I’ll be back on Tuesday.

[article] RAG, AI Agents, and Agentic RAG: An In-Depth Review and Comparative Analysis. It’s ok if some of these AI terms are still foreign or confusing. Keep digging into material like this to build some familiarity.

[article] How to Make Your Product Idea Go Viral Inside Your Company: Lessons from Figma Slides. Frustrated that your amazing product idea or tech platform has no takers inside the company? It’s time to rethink your approach.

[blog] AlloyDB Autoscaling is Easy. Gleb shows an event-driven way to scale up a cloud PostgreSQL database when usage surges.

[article] Don’t Wait for Promotion Cycles to Advocate for Your Best Employees. Good advice. It took me longer to understand this than I’d care to admit.

[blog] Event-Driven Architecture Issues & Challenges. Event-driven systems can be great. They can also be overkill and sap your strength. Derek calls out a few problems that arise.

[blog] Capture AI’s Low-Hanging Fruit with Agents. Short post, but good insight from Brian about some viable early use cases for AI and agents.

[article] What’s next for agentic AI? LangChain founder looks to ambient agents. Almost have your head around AI agents? Now you need to figure out what an ambient agent is.

[article] What are the best ways to implement AI tools like agents in the software development process? This is apparently an all-agent edition of the reading list today. This one features a good roundtable of folks with grounded opinions.

[blog] OSV-SCALIBR: A library for Software Composition Analysis. You can now use what Google uses for software scanning.

[article] AI users eye higher-level duties as adoption unfolds: Workday. Those using AI are the most optimistic about what they do with it. Those waiting to adopt have the most skepticism. That sounds about right.

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