Daily Reading List – May 23, 2025 (#559)
We’ve got a three-day weekend coming up here in the States, and it’s at the right time. I’m spent and looking forward to some sunshine and downtime. See you back at the Reading List on Tuesday!
[article] Google’s AI Vision: Make Tech Human Again. What a thoughtful writeup. I hope our vision for things turns into the reality.
[blog] Now’s a great time to rediscover PaaS. Platforms are in vogue, as they should be. I’m not sure Cloud Foundry is the right bet in 2025, but Coté makes a good case.
[article] HashiCorp Releases Terraform MCP Server for AI Integration. Everyone is shipping MCP servers. Also see ones from Firebase and DigitalOcean.
[blog] How We Decomposed Tinder’s Monolith. Faster build times, and a simpler system that can be updated more easily? Good work from the Tinder engineering team.
[blog] KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS. Wow. Glad we were able to help protect on this one.
[article] The Future of Dev Tools is Autonomous, Engineers Will Become Fleet Generals. Nobody knows exactly what’s going to happen, but this seems like the direction we’re heading.
[article] Agentic AI delivers measurable value to early adopters. Not shocking? If you pick some good use cases where there’s legit pain points, AI agents are going to make a noticeable difference.
[codelab] Build Powerful, Stateful, E2E AI Agent Apps in Java with ADK, AlloyDB & Gemini. Get hands on learning how to build agent solutions. This is a terrific step by step exercise.
[blog] Business Intelligence in AI Era: How Agents and Gemini unlock your data. Are we doing vibe business intelligence now? Of the tech practices, data exploration seems well suited to iterating quickly on ideas with AI.
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