Daily Reading List – July 2, 2025 (#580)

I’ve got a couple days off for our Independence Day holiday, so this reading list needs to hold you over until Monday. It’s a big one!

[article] Most enterprises can’t secure AI, Accenture says. “Can’t” or “haven’t”? Sounds like the former as it appears that many organizations don’t have the tech or investment to do so.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: The global threats facing EU healthcare. I know AI investments can be at the expense of security ones, but don’t neglect a robust security strategy.

[blog] How I write production-ready Spring Boot applications. Good post. My brain is now broken by AI so my first thought when reading this was “these would be good instructions to add to a GEMINI.md file.”

[blog] How AI Agents Are Changing API Rate Limit Approaches. Your network traffic, storage patterns, and yes, even API interactions will change when AI agents get going.

[article] When a PM takes over engineering. I haven’t seen this talked about much, and there’s some good advice here for those coming into engineering management from product.

[blog] Most Effective Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools. There’s going to be some implicit bias here because Pulumi is doing the assessment, but I thought this was a fair look at the overall landscape.

[blog] New Gemini tools for students and educators. This is the likely the domain where AI can be the most useful, and also the most dangerous. It’s fantastic as a learning and personalization tool. Unprecedented. It’s also made it easier to only learn how to prompt.

[blog] Agentic Coding Recommendations. Meaty set of recommendations here. We’re all learning right now, and what works for one person may not work for you. But study what folks are up to.

[blog] Turning my Resume Into an Interactive Game : ReactJs & Go. The post is ok, but the idea really struck me. What a creative way for someone to “explore” your job history.

[blog] 6 skills every engineer needs for the AI era. From the Figma team. I didn’t see anything earth-shattering, but again, keep observing what others are learning.

[blog] Is it time to switch CI/CD platforms? 7 warning signs. I’d bet that your CI/CD tech is pretty sticky. You don’t swap it out very often. But there are times when you’re past due for a refresh.

[blog] Gemini CLI: vibecode a Next.js app and push to the Cloud! Fun walkthrough that shows the usefulness of the Gemini CLI. And I’m reading this in Riccardo’s voice, which made it more enjoyable.

[article] Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents. Is there a lot out there already for coordinating, visualizing, and operating agents? Not that I’ve seen.

[blog] Building Autonomous AI systems with Looping Agents from Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK). It’s common to build chains, but looping scenarios are a fascinating agent pattern.

[blog] Vibe Learning is Underrated. Worthwhile read. AI makes learning new things feel less intimidating, as we can ask “dumb questions” or go on tangents without feeling guilty.

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