Daily Reading List – January 22, 2025 (#477)

I had some wildfires nearby today which forced me to leave the Google office and head home. It was fairly quickly extinguished, but it’s a reminder that I’m in control of virtually nothing. Stay safe out there!

[blog] 6 secrets for never being blocked again. Is the platform/DevOps/ops team blocking your dev team? Here’s some interesting advice for building more of a partnership model versus service desk model.

[blog] Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4. Cloudflare always has interesting data about internet traffic. Here, they share details about distributed denial of service attacks from last year.

[blog] Improve the RAG pipeline with RAG triad metrics. Having something to measure gives you focus areas to improve on. Mete shows us how to iterate on various improvements to RAG scores.

[blog] Introducing BigQuery metastore, a unified metadata service with Apache Iceberg support. I don’t personally feel the pain that this solves because I don’t mess with a lot of analytics systems, but this seems to address something important.

[article] How to Make Your Team’s Work More Visible. Good advice. It’s part of the team leader’s responsibility to create public wins within the organization.

[blog] Parfait: Enabling private AI with research tools. We like sharing with others. This GitHub org contains tools we’ve created and use for private AI, and you can too.

[blog] Top 10 Microservices Design Patterns you should know. Just because everything doesn’t need to be a microservice, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be familiar with patterns when we need them.

[blog] Building GenAI Chat App (Part 1): How to Deploy Gemma 2 on Cloud Run Utilizing Ollama. Simple example, and it’s good to see people experimenting.

[blog] How to run (any) open LLM with Ollama on Google Cloud Run [Step-by-step]. Fantastic example from Geshan.

[blog] Taming Legacy Java Dependencies with Pomify and Google Cloud Artifact Registry. I doubt that there are any “easy” migrations, but some tech can make it “easier.”

[article] Postman launches an AI agent builder on top of its API platform. This makes more sense the more you think about it. I can understand why a platform focused on APIs gets into the agent business.

[article] Service as Software: How AI Agents Are Transforming SaaS. Important trend, and we’re only going to see more agents that plan, decide, and act on our behalf.

[blog] The AI Coding Honeymoon (And What Comes After). Devin dove head-first into some AI coding tools, and had to reset after feeling like he lost control. Good writeup.

[blog] So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers? Long, useful piece from a former colleague. I like when experts share practical advice.

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