Daily Reading List – November 18, 2024 (#443)

I’m in Sunnyvale for the week. Today was a product leadership offsite, and I had fun talking to our senior product leaders. Enjoy the reading list below.

[blog] Data loading best practices for AI/ML inference on GKE. How do you smartly load up the large weights/parameters of an LLM so that the inference server starts up faster? This post has good advice.

[blog] Platform Engineering as a Service. Does platform engineering bring order to the chaos that DevOps creates? Tyler thinks so, and offers up a solution.

[report] CNCF Technology Landscape Radar. If you’re a platform builder who is looking for open tech to bake into your stack, look at this new CNCF report that explores sentiment about some leading projects.

[blog] AlloyDB Omni supercharges performance: Faster transactions, analytics, and vector search. If you’re running PostgreSQL anywhere—on your laptop, in a local data center, in any public cloud—AlloyDB is turning into an excellent option. Great performance, and AI ready.

[article] What Comes After Open Source? Bruce Perens Has Some Ideas. Does something come after open source? This proposal is focused on sustainable funding for contributors by “taxing” large users.

[blog] Self-contained Executable Programs with Deno Compile. This makes it easy to turn your server-side JavaScript apps into a binary that runs anywhere.

[article] How To Stop Procrastinating: 4 Secrets From Research. This sat in my reading queue for a week before I got to it, which feels ironic. But some helpful advice here!

[blog] Meta Prompt Guard. Nervous about people tricking your AI agents into doing bad things? This post explores a lightweight classifier model from Meta that looks for malicious input.

[article] Let’s End Toxic Productivity. We have more conveniences than our grandparents did, but also seem to work more hours. Our standard of living is higher, as are our expectations, but still. This deep dive looks at how to step back and not overdo everything.

[blog] Empower your teams with self-service Kubernetes using GKE fleets and Argo CD. Nick and team show off a new Argo CD plugin that keeps your fleet of Kubernetes cluster synced and deployment ready.

[blog] Gemini in Firebase for Data Connect queries. Here’s a good use case for LLMs. Firebase is using natural language prompts to generate GraphQL instead of you needing to know the full syntax.

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