Daily Reading List – March 20, 2025 (#516)

Do you start the day wondering how you’ll get anything done, and then miraculously, have a couple of meetings cancelled? That was me today, and it changed the tone of the day. Ending on a high note!

[blog] Product 101: Insist on a Budget for Experimentation. Great points from Traverse, especially the point that these are engineering-integrated experiments.

[paper] Generative AI for Software Architecture. Applications, Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions. Great topic. I wrote about it last year, and happen to notice that post referenced in this paper.

[blog] Monitor your Genkit features in production. There’s some useful auto-instrumented bits along with monitoring dashboards that come along with this AI app framework.

[blog] Build AI-Powered Apps With Genkit and Angular. Speaking of Genkit, I read this piece on building a frontend Angular app that talks to a Genkit-based backend API.

[article] 4 Styles of Coaching—and When to Use Them. I liked this, and added the corresponding book to my wishlist. It’s useful to have a vocabulary for coaching styles.

[blog] A framework for adopting Gemini Code Assist and measuring its impact. Really good, and maybe breaking some new ground here. Look at this if you’re trying to quantify the value of AI coding assistance.

[blog] Introducing Apache Kafka® 4.0. There’s a big architecture update to this release—no more Zookeeper component—along with a host of other capabilities.

[article] The Pivot to Product-Market Fit: How Plaid, Clay, Lattice & Other Startups Broke Out. When is it time to change direction? It’s easy to recognize in hindsight, but hard in the moment.

[blog] Gen AI Toolbox for Databases announces LlamaIndex integration. This open source project that simplifies access from AI agents to databases is getting better.

[article] Google unlocks scalable GPU access with Cloud Run’s serverless model. This is a top one or two compute service available anywhere, and GPU support makes it even more useful.

[blog] Engineers should state the obvious. Do you avoid saying certain things because you think everyone already knows it? Say it anyway.

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