Daily Reading List – May 20, 2025 (#556)
It’s been a great day at Google I/O, and I think we made a big industry impact. I still have to catch up on what we wrote, and what others wrote about us, so expect a few of those in tomorrow’s reading list.
[blog] What’s new with Agents: ADK, Agent Engine, and A2A Enhancements. Big updates for agent developers, including a Java version of the Agent Development Kit.
[blog] Announcing Gemma 3n preview: powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI. Open, small, and powerful. This looks like a great option for mobile or local workloads.
[blog] Introducing the next generation of AI inference, powered by llm-d. Great cross-vendor work that makes AI inference on Kubernetes faster and more efficient.
[article] Keeping Up With AI: The Painful New Mandate for Software Engineers. Manju is a great analyst and shares his thoughts on how leaders can better set up their teams in the AI era.
[article] Spring AI 1.0 Released, Streamlines AI Application Development with Broad Model Support. Congrats to the Spring team on the milestone. I expect a lot of folks to use this framework when building AI apps. Here’s the announcement from the Spring team, and Google Cloud’s post about Spring AI.
[blog] MCP Authorization in practice with Spring AI and OAuth2. Speaking of Spring, here’s a guide for setting up access security for MCP servers. Which we need to see more with all this widespread MCP support happening.
[blog] Introducing Docker Hardened Images: Secure, Minimal, and Ready for Production. Smart move, as Docker Hub images seem to be associated with starter or throwaway instances you shouldn’t critically depend on. This looks legit.
[blog] Reports of Deno’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated. There can be an “I’m not a crook” or Streisand Effect to these types of posts. But Ryan sprinkles in positive momentum.
[blog] Event Destinations: A Better Way to Deliver Webhooks. This seems like a useful alternative/addition to HTTP webhooks.
[blog] Build a RAG Agent using Google ADK and Vertex AI RAG Engine. Interact with our RAG-as-a-service using an AI agent.
[article] GitHub Launches Its Coding Agent. Microsoft Build is going on, and they’re shipping some neat things. Here’s an announcement summary, and the news about open sourcing the VS Code Copilot chat extension.
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