Daily Reading List – February 13, 2025 (#493)

I’m flying back to the States after a wild final day in India. At our event in Hyderabad, I had the real privilege of talking to, taking pictures with, and learning from hundreds of developers. Great folks! I was also able to steal a few minutes to read the items you’ll find below.

[blog] Edge Build: Part 1. Brian is building a new local edge environment in his home lab. Follow along!

[article] Preparing for AI. Long-ish piece, but a good one for how to think about the current AI revolution. Don’t ignore it, be realistic about it, and train yourself to use it effectively.

[blog] RAG based application with AlloyDB and Vertex AI. Nothing new here, but still a good look at setting up PostgreSQL as a vector database and hosting a retrieval service on a serverless platform.

[blog] The Art of Breaking Rules: What Separates Good Engineers from Great Ones. Experience tells us when it’s time to change the current state. This post says that the best engineers don’t just do things right, they do the right thing.

[blog] Whisk, a Google Labs experiment, is expanding to more than 100 new countries. This is a fun, free service for creating images using images as prompts. Now available in more places.

[blog] Engineers who won’t commit force bad decisions. I’m on team “pick a side.” If you’re in the best position to know the answer, make a call.

[blog] Book Review: The Goal. My friend Traverse takes a look at this classic book that inspired The Phoenix Project. It’s all about streamlining operations and understanding your metrics.

[blog] Developer Relations Belongs in Product. It can sit in all sorts of places within the org, but if you have a devrel team that’s paying attention to product updates and is also a trusted source of customer feedback, being in product management is a plus.

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