Today’s list has some very cool things to click through and check out. Dig into a few of these!
[blog] Vertical Integration is the Only Thing That Matters. Developer tools don’t work in a silo. This post explains why integrations, or “glue code”, among these tools is so important, yet hard to achieve.
[blog] How to Train an LLM: Part 1. Long post, but educational if you want to follow someone’s journey to train an LLM and what was learned along the way.
[blog] Do you detect a pattern? BigQuery’s new MATCH_RECOGNIZE function can! Complex pattern matching, right inside your SQL queries? We keep adding functions to BigQuery that simplify your architectures.
[blog] What Developers Really Mean by “Bad Code.” Good question! This post calls out some criteria, and how to actively reduce the amount of bad code in your projects.
[blog] Introducing Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding. I really like this. The era of static (and often incomplete) documentation is over. Oh, a quality source of truth always matters. But how we consume it will never be the same. Check it out!
[blog] Ordering food using Zomato’s MCP server with Google Gemini CLI. i’m not emotionally prepared to order food via the CLI. Maybe next year. But MCP is opening up so many possibilities.
[article] Choosing the right format for your AI model: A comprehensive guide to AI inference formats. What are model formats, and why are there so many of them? It might feel too late to ask this question, but it’s not. Ivan taught me a few things here.
[blog] Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation. I often just one-shot silly stuff with our models, but this post does inspire me to invest more in refinement.
[blog] Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back. It’s a legit concern, especially if people take the wrong approach with it. You can use specs to drive the next hour of work; don’t spend months writing specs!
[blog] Building Trustworthy Charity Agents with Google ADK and AP2. Great example of agentic commerce in action. Learn about the way it all works in this detailed post.
[blog] Waze keeps traffic flowing with 1M+ real-time reads per second on Memorystore. Some apps can tolerate a lag. Traffic and direction navigation data? Nope.
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