Daily Reading List – February 6, 2025 (#488)

A shorter reading list today as I’m navigating airports on the way to India. Still, some good finds today!

[youtube-video] Gemini 2.0 blew me away. I like Theo’s videos, and this was a fun watch. He dogs us where he should, but overall, he was super impressed with Gemini as a model. Me too.

[blog] Ingesting Millions of PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 Changes Everything. Doc processing will never be the same. Gemini is really good at this. The Hacker News chat on this post was lively.

[article] Measuring developer productivity: A clear-eyed view. Abi and Kent Beck talk about dev productivity, and you’ll likely get a lot out of this discussion.

[article] Google Cloud says AI demand greater than its capacity – vows $75b CapEx boost. Like others, we’re in “invest” mode.

[blog] Why Observability 2.0 Is Such a Gamechanger. The term “observability” is already overloaded, but the “2.0” narrative hasn’t yet been watered down. Read more from the folks who know most about it.

[blog] Scale-to-Zero LLM Inference with vLLM, Cloud Run and Cloud Storage FUSE. Ollama gets a lot of love, but vLLM is popular in its own right. This post shows us how to do production-ready model-serving on a serverless platform.

[blog] Software development topics I’ve changed my mind on after 10 years in the industry. Book knowledge is great, and it should be supplemented with hard-fought experience. Do stuff, and form your own opinions.

[blog] 20 things you didn’t know you could do with Google Maps. Spot on. I didn’t know most of these. Maps is 20 years old, and full of functionality I hadn’t heard of.

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