Today was the last one in Bangalore before we flew to Hyderabad in the evening. It was a great day with our local team, and I’m looking to one more full day in India.
[article] Developers Unhappy With Tool Sprawl, Lagging Data, Long Waits. Lots of interesting data here. Clearly, the current state of IDPs and delivery tools isn’t good enough.
[article] 7 Habits to Stay Focused in a World Full of Distractions. Distractions aren’t going away, but the “winners” moving forward will be the ones who train themselves to focus.
[blog] The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents. This is a couple of months old, which is absolutely ancient in AI time. But I still found it useful for understanding the landscape.
[article] Google’s I/O developer conference set for May 20-21. It’s smaller than Cloud Next, and targets a different audience. But it’s a great time, and worth attending.
[article] Deep Research and Knowledge Value. Ben’s talking about Open AI’s Deep Research—which stole borrowed the name from us—and it’s an insightful perspective about how these tools may become the most powerful types of search engines.
[article] 1,000 samples to make a reasoning model; DeepSeek proliferation; Apple’s self-driving car simulator. Jack’s weekly newsletter is a great read for folks learning about AI. His take on reasoning models is helpful to those who want to know what’s coming.
[blog] Build an Agentic Workflow for your BigQuery data using LangGraph and Gemini. Educational content from Rachael. Check it out to see frameworks like LangGraph in action.
[blog] Go 1.24 is released! Are you good at absorbing new language updates in your stack, or does it takes months/years? Seems like an important thing to get good at.
[blog] We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly. That’s a new one for me. But the justification seems valid!
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