Daily Reading List – May 6, 2024 (#312)

It was a beautiful weekend down here in San Diego. Summer feels close. For those readers in the Northern Hemisphere, hopefully you’re feeling the same!

[blog] Advancing the art of AI-driven security with Google Cloud. The RSA conference is this week, so expect lots of security news across the industry. We announced some new services, like Google Threat Intelligence and Google Security Operations.

[blog] A Useful Productivity Measure? What did this VP of Engineering do after being asked to define a productivity metric for his team? I like where he ended up.

[blog] How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math. Unless you live and breathe LLMs, you’ll probably have one or two lightbulb moments when reading this. I sure did.

[article] MongoDB takes data streaming service GA. Kafka integrations today, apparently more coming in the future. Check this out if you use MongoDB yourself.

[article] Dealing With Chaos: A Guide for Leaders Feeling Overwhelmed at Work. This likely resonates with everyone at one point or another. It’s useful to label some of the circumstances that cause a sense of chaos.

[blog] Codelab: Using Gemini Code Assist to explore and enhance Generative AI Document Summarization Jump Start Solution. If you’re like me, you enjoy learning from observing small bits of a bigger solution while ALSO exploring more complete solutions themselves. Here’s an end to end AI-based scenario to dig into.

[article] Friday Forward – Chasing Butterflies. Good post from Bob. Sometimes feelings are just feelings, and not indicative of something that needs therapy or medication.

[article] 10 principles for creating a great developer experience. This is a good list to work through if you’re serious about building and maintaining an impactful developer experience.

[blog] When to use Gemini or purpose-built AI models in BigQuery. This argument applies to almost everything in tech: use the general purpose thing or the purpose-built thing? Shane looks at how BigQuery handles some specific data prep and analysis tasks with AI models.

[blog] 60 to 100 days to onboard a developer – Highlights from the Harness State of Developer Experience survey. Lots of (good) thoughts here about making a better developer experience and healthier platform.

[blog] Accelerating incident response using generative AI. Here are some details from an experiment run by the Google Security team.

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