🤖 AI Engineering Must-Reads

And why aren't we all serverless yet?

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Travis Media
January 14, 2025

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Hey everybody,

In today’s newsletter, we’re diving into the 2025 AI Engineer Reading List with must-read papers and blogs, exploring why serverless computing hasn’t taken over yet, and uncovering how Pinterest handles massive data processing.

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📰 The 2025 AI Engineer Reading List
Latent Space has compiled a list of 50 must-read papers, models, and blogs across 10 key AI engineering fields, including LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, and Finetuning. If you're looking to learn more about AI, this collection is a great starting point.

🤔 Why aren't we all serverless yet?
Serverless computing offers a powerful abstraction for engineers, allowing them to focus on functionality without worrying about infrastructure. AWS Lambda is a great example, handling scaling and resource allocation seamlessly while charging only for compute time. Despite its appeal, the shift to serverless as a default architecture remains slow. Datadog's 2023 report shows serverless adoption at just 3-7% growth among major cloud providers, with over 50% of customers dabbling in it. The big question: what’s holding back widerspread serverless adoption?

🗃️ How Pinterest Stores and Transfers Hundreds of Terabytes of Data Daily
Choosing the right technologies for your team can be a make-or-break decision. The wrong choice can take years to undo, while indecision leads to lost revenue and poor productivity. Pinterest, launched in 2010, has scaled to serve hundreds of millions of users and billions of monthly visits. With a massive need for real-time data processing, powering personalized recommendations, fraud detection, and advertiser reporting, here’s a look at the infrastructure behind their success.

🎧️ Google releases a personalized AI podcast based on your Discover feed
Google’s new “Daily Listen” experiment in Search Labs offers a personalized podcast. Similar to NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews, it curates a 5-minute episode summarizing stories and topics based on your interests in Discover and Search. It launched a few days ago and functions as a quick, custom podcast tailored just for you.

🆕 Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading Into 2025
HTML might evolve slower than CSS or JavaScript, but there are some relatively new updates worth knowing heading into 2025. While not all are fresh from 2024, these features are still modern, practical, and impactful.

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