Daily Reading List – March 12, 2025 (#510)

Arrived in Istanbul and I barely know what day or time it is. But, it’s been a good trip. I was happy to be in Paris for the Gemma Developer Day where we heard about our brand new open model. See more about it below.

[blog] Introducing Gemma 3: The most capable model you can run on a single GPU or TPU. We shipped the latest versions of our open LLM and it’s pretty hot. Scan the technical report too.

[blog] Introducing Gemma 3: The Developer Guide. Extra details on Gemma, our post-training strategy, and how to start using it.

[blog] How to deploy serverless AI with Gemma 3 on Cloud Run. You can try out Gemma on Google Cloud with a single CLI command, and also follow these docs for a more production-grade hosting on the same serverless stack.

[blog] Software Falsehoods: you can build it cheap, fast, and good – pick two. The point here is that “price” stands alone and isn’t a factor of speed or quality. Interesting insights here.

[blog] A 10x Faster TypeScript. The creator of C# wanted to improve TypeScript performance so he chose … Go. Good decision! Some .NET fans are salty about the choice.

[blog] Who gets to do strategy? Do engineers and other individual contributors have “permission” to do strategy? Will says everyone should be involved and empowered.

[blog] Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world. Wow, this is neat. Here’s a Gemini 2.0-based model that’s purpose built for robotic devices.

[blog] The Question Is No Longer “If” But “How” AI Is Transforming Software Development. Good extended take from Diego, who has been tracking the AI-assistance space longer than most.

[article] Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs. Here’s a look at what cluster characteristics to account for, and even some pitfalls to avoid.

[blog] ScaNN for AlloyDB: The first PostgreSQL vector search index that works well from millions to billion of vectors. Some outstanding performance here, which matters with small or large vector stores.

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