Daily Reading List – October 28, 2025 (#653)

I had lunch with a friend today and we talked about tech, and leadership in general. I mentioned that if you’ve ever been described by a manager as a “hidden gem”, that’s a red flag. Maybe once, but if you’re continually “hidden” that seems like a bad manager who doesn’t give you the spotlight. Thoughts?

[article] The future of the web is the history of YouTube. Are we under-valuing what’s about to happen to software, now that everyone is a creator? Thought-provoking take.

[article] AI Is Reshaping Developer Career Paths. Deep, specialist knowledge will always matter in certain places. But if that’s your calling card as a developer, it might not be as valuable now as you think.

[article] Tame Python Chaos With uv – The Superpower Every AI Engineer Needs. I’ve begrudgingly used Python to build some things lately. I lot of people I know have been raving about uv.

[blog] Building a Multimodal AI Shopping Workflow with Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, Gemini Nano Banana, and Veo. We’re at the very beginning stages of some wild new software experiences. This mashup of AI tech is awesome.

[article] Wyndham puts 250 AI agents into production. Sure there’s hype, but clearly folks are starting to see some real value from AI investments.

[blog] A practical guide to Google Cloud’s Parameter Manager. Where do you stash config values like API keys, certs, and connection strings? Our Parameter Manager offers a pretty solid solution for this.

[article] What are the 2025 benchmarks for the key DORA metrics? What’s “good” changes each year. This post explores the latest benchmark for top performance in software delivery.

[article] CEO of Alphabet’s X, Astro Teller, on what makes a moonshot. I like working at a place that isn’t afraid to take risks, fail, and try something else.

[article] 8 platform engineering anti-patterns. This looks like a very respectable list featuring opinions from people who know what they’re talking about.

[blog] HTTPS by default. Platforms should make it easy to do the right thing. We’re doing that with Chrome.

[article] Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads. We’re definitely seeing divergence now between Redis and the one-time fork, Valkey.

[blog] Introducing Google Gen AI .NET SDK. Why can’t C# devs get in on the fun? Add a strategic Gemini call or two to your .NET apps with our new SDK.

[article] The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3. Good data here about what people are using for observability, logging, feature flags, incident management, and more.

[article] HashiCorp Previews “Agentic Infrastructure” Future with Project Infragraph. Even infrastructure management is getting the AI shakeup.

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