Daily Reading List – April 1, 2025 (#524)

Today’s reading list has lots of interesting advice. Whether it’s how to become an expert, build high performing apps, or motivate yourself through a career slump, there’s something for everyone.

[article] How To Become An Expert At Anything: 5 Scientific Steps To Mastery. Some of this might be intuitive to you, but I liked the reminders of what it takes to become an expert.

[article] Azul Report Finds 83% of CIOs are Spending More on their Cloud Infrastructure and Applications than Anticipated, While Only 2% are Under Budget. There’s no wholesale repatriation going on, and folks are going headfirst into the cloud.

[site] Patterns and Techniques for Writing High-Performance Applications with Go. This site has some awesome content for devs who want to build better (Go) apps.

[blog] Accelerate analytics with AI-assisted data preparation in BigQuery, now GA. AI-assisted cloud is the way to go. And I’m not talking chatbots. I mean deeply embedded capabilities directly into services. Here’s a great example.

[article] JFrog Survey Surfaces Limited DevSecOps Gains. Oof, our industry still seems pretty terrible at application security. What makes this better?

[article] Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is the smartest model you’re not using – and 4 reasons it matters for enterprise AI. We caught up with Gemini 2.0. And we raced ahead with Gemini 2.5. Give it a whirl at no cost.

[article] How Airbnb Used LLMs to Accelerate Test Migration. Interesting look at how Airbnb used LLMs to update their code base test files.

[blog] The evolution of graph learning. Good history lesson here, with lots of links to research that’s gotten us to where we are today.

[article] In a Slump at Work? Here’s How to Motivate Yourself. Nobody is constantly “on” during a long career. Even for long stretches. We hit slumps and downturns. I liked this advice to get out of it.

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