Daily Reading List – January 29, 2025 (#482)

Heading home after a short, productive trip to the Cloud HQ. Fairly large reading list today, with a lot of security content for some reason. Enjoy!

[blog] The Product Model and Agile. How does a product operating model intersect with Agile software? Same thing? Not related? Marty explains that Agile is important to one of the three dimensions of the product model.

[blog] An AI agent to generate short sci-fi stories. If you want a new short story every day, with images, you’ll like this prototype. I love the final result, and it shows off so many cool aspects of AI.

[blog] Enhancing Web Application Security with Cloud Run Sidecar Containers. Interesting use case, where static content is served by the sidecar, with a full Java app serving other requests.

[blog] A CheatSheet of 128 CheatSheets for Developers. Haven’t seen this before. A cheatsheet of different cheatsheets? Nice. You’ll find ones for interviews, languages, platforms, and more.

[blog] Semaphore is Going Open Source in 30 days. Wow, a product going straight-up Apache 2.0 open source? Seems rare nowadays. Keep an eye on the core platform of this CI/CD stack.

[blog] The New Frontier of Security: Creating Safe and Secure AI Models. This looks like great guidance whether you’re distributing models, or deciding which (open) models to consume.

[blog] Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI. Long post, but interesting. How are government-backed threat actors trying to use Gemini for attacks?

[blog] How we estimate the risk from prompt injection attacks on AI systems. One more on security. What does it look like to perform (automated) red-teaming against the risk of indirect prompt injection? Our Google pros explain.

[blog] How we kept the Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe in 2024. Ok, I lied. I came across yet another interesting security-related post. Here’s a good use case for AI.

[blog] Why NotebookLM Matters. Short post from Om that explains why NotebookLM has staying power.

[article] How can engineering teams optimize hybrid work? Here’s some analysis into hybrid work, productivity challenges, and actions to take.

[blog] How we built it: Usage-based billing. Cool post from Stripe about the architecture they created to support usage-based billing. Lots of real-time data processing needed!

[article] Waymo reportedly testing robotaxis in 10 new cities in 2025. I’m not ready to look over at the car driving next to me on the highway and not seeing a driver. But it’s coming soon.

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