Daily Reading List – April 28, 2025 (#540)

Happy Monday. It seems the Northern Hemisphere is fully in Spring mode and I’m happy to see some folks thawing out. It was raining and 60 degrees here in San Diego on Saturday which made me consider filing a complaint with the State.

[blog] A2A Deep Dive: Getting Real-Time Updates from AI Agents. This goes beyond “hello world” and shows off a more sophisticated use case for the Agent to Agent Protocol.

[blog] DevOps vs SRE vs Platform Engineering. Are these concepts the same, but with different branding? Not really. This post does a good job defining each.

[article] Alibaba unveils Qwen 3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models. Kudos. These look like excellent models.

[article] What async communication behaviors lead to better outcomes for software engineers? Are there good and bad ways for teams to communicate in chat tools? This research looks at whether bursty or steady chatter is best.

[blog] Google Gemini LangChain Cheatsheet. Great content from Philipp. If you’re building with LangChain and Gemini, this is a good spot to start.

[blog] Sycophancy is the first LLM “dark pattern.” Is your LLM giving you overly-complementary responses in the hope of pleasing you?

[article] The Future Belongs to AI-Augmented 10x Developers, Not Bigger Dev Teams. Sounds right. A good developer with AI is better than a great one without it.

[article] Model Context Protocol: A Primer for the Developers. Worried about asking what MCP is at this point? Don’t be. We’re all learning stuff together.

[blog] Dockerizing MCP – Bringing Discovery, Simplicity, and Trust to the Ecosystem. There will be a land grab for “trusted registries”, and it makes sense for Docker to plant a flag.

[blog] Building Your First MCP Server with Genkit. If you want to build your own MCP server, you can follow along here and use this Firebase framework.

[blog] Improving brain models with ZAPBench. Wild! Benchmarking brain models and predicting future activity.

[blog] 15 Reasons I Love Go. Good reasons. You can make a case for a handful of languages to become your default; Go should be on the list.

[blog] How we built Cloud WAN to support businesses amid the rise of AI. This is a very cool and unique offering. I like the additional details here.

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