Daily Reading List – January 30, 2025 (#483)

My “no meeting Friday” tomorrow has somehow turned into a “seven meeting Friday” but that’s ok. There’s lots to do right now. Check out a fun variety of links below.

[article] Applying the Core 4 framework (Part 2). Learn more about this new framework (which is a combo of other frameworks) that help you focus dev productivity efforts, and connect to business impact metrics.

[article] Google Search’s newest Easter egg is all about breaking blocks. This is the opposite of developer productivity, but if you don’t play at least one round of this RIGHT NOW, I’ll be disappointed in you.

[article] This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineering Leaders Back into Frontline Developers. It can be done! Sometimes you want to get back into the weeds and build again.

[blog] Deploy Gemini-powered LangChain applications on GKE. AI app or not, this is a useful post for showing what it takes to go from source code to container to Kubernetes.

[blog] Running DeepSeek: From Open Source Model to Production-Ready API on Google Cloud — VertexAI. Here’s a walkthrough of running DeepSeek in Google’s AI platform.

[blog] Mistral Small 3. The open model has some great low latency. This post shares a lot of performance numbers, and differentiates the model from others like DeepSeek. More here.

[blog] Scaling the Tülu 3 post-training recipes to surpass the performance of DeepSeek V3. Another one to take a look at. I’m expecting another explosion of innovation in this space.

[blog] Announcing the general availability of Spanner Graph. Very cool option for graph database fans, and these new GA features—including an open source graph viewer—are legit.

[article] 5 Signs Your Optimism is Hurting Your Team. I’m a fairly upbeat and optimistic person, but this post reminds me to avoid “toxic positivity” with the team.

[blog] How Relationships Work in Data Connect. The data management service in Firebase isn’t just for simple single-table data. This post shows how relationships (one to many, many to many) work.

[blog] Simplify the developer experience on Kubernetes with KRO. It’s pretty rad when Google, AWS, and Microsoft can work together on something. New open source tooling!

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