It was an awesome day in Vegas as pieces of Google Cloud Next ’25 took shape. The event starts on Wednesday, and I hope you’ll tune into parts of it. Today’s reading list is relatively light on AI, but that’s just to ease you into a week that should be VERY heavy on AI content.
[blog] Making Sense of the AI Developer Tools Ecosystem. The items named here change often, but the categories are sound.
[blog] Managing Applications across Fleets of Kubernetes Clusters. You’ve got a lot of good choices here. There are open products, vendor-specific ones, and a mix of both. Either way, consider something for keeping a handle on your set of Kubernetes clusters.
[article] Research: Hiring a Superstar Can Backfire. My hiring manager didn’t have to worry here, but if you are actually looking to hire an industry superstar, read this first.
[blog] The good, the bad, and the ugly of managing Sphinx projects with Bazel. Use a software build tool (Bazel) to transform tech docs to HTML? Here’s a candid look at what you should know.
[article] Enterprises have high ROI hopes for agentic AI. Reasonable excitement. For many companies, agents have a more tangible value proposition than general purpose generative AI.
[article] The 13 software engineering laws. Conway’s Law, Brooks’ Law, Price’s Law, and ten others are explained in this post. Good read.
[blog] SQL Pipe Syntax Style Guide & Best Practices. You’ll find many examples here and get a sense for how useful this SQL alternative is.
[blog] Building AI Agents — When To Use Frameworks Vs. SDKs. Frameworks like LangChain aren’t the same as using SDKs from the likes of Vercel. Get an assessment of the differences in this post.
[article] Sometimes never compete on price. Great post, as usual, from Jason. This one encourages companies, especially startups, to not default to “low price” as the strategy.
[blog] Mechanical Orchard ignites major shift in enterprise IT transformation with Imogen. I’m very bullish on what the MO folks have cooking. It’s impressive tech, and may help companies FINALLY get traction on their mainframe modernizations.
[blog] Accelerate Mainframe Modernization with gen AI from Google Cloud and its partners. Speaking of mainframes, we’ve also got some great tech, with a shoutout to MO in this post.
[article] The 8 best Go web frameworks for 2025: Updated list. Upleveling your web game with Go? Or looking to make a change? This is a well-done post that explains the best options.
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