Daily Reading List – April 15, 2025 (#533)
I forgot what it was like to have open blocks on my calendar. It’s been delightful this week while my peers recover from their Cloud Next hangover. Tomorrow, I may even write a blog post (besides this one). Stay tuned!
[article] Google Is Winning on Every AI Front. I don’t know a single person at work who’s acting cocky. Confident, maybe. But we have plenty of work to do. That said, it feels good to see the pieces coming together.
[blog] Optimizing Our E2E Pipeline. The engineering team at Slack realized their frontend builds were taking a long time, even when nothing had changed. Here’s how they optimized their pipeline.
[article] Google Unveils The Most Comprehensive Agent Strategy At Cloud Next 2025. Seems that way. Having the infrastructure, models, platform, and surfaces makes a big difference!
[blog] Snyk Security Solution Now Integrated into Google Cloud’s Gemini Code Assist. AI assistance will continue to flow into the IDE. These sorts of integrations are great for developers.
[blog] Developer Week 2025 wrap-up. Cloudflare just ships. And each year’s “developer week” is full of interesting product announcements.
[article] Building Tomorrow’s Legacy Code, Today. Good talk on paying down tech debt, building for the future, and giving respect to legacy code.
[blog] Taming the 60,000-Line PL/SQL Monster: Leveraging Gemini for Deep Code Analysis. Instead of taking hours, days, or weeks to understand inherited code, you can really do it in minutes. Big life improvement!
[article] This AI already writes 20% of Salesforce’s code. Here’s why developers aren’t worried. Folks are quickly adapting to using AI to write the first draft of their code. Interesting findings here.
[blog] Conversing with GKE Clusters: Google’s Agent Development Kit in Action. The dev experience on agent frameworks like this is so good that people are going to be experimenting like mad. Here’s another walkthrough.
[blog] Getting Started with Google A2A: A Hands-on Tutorial for the Agent2Agent Protocol. It barely matters which agent framework you use; with A2A, they can work together.
[article] Google Cloud’s second chance at the enterprise. It’s a messy landscape with all sorts of vendors in the mix. But we’ve moved from an “edgy bet” to a “safe bet” really quickly.
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