Daily Reading List – July 10, 2025 (#584)

I’m officially having a hard time keeping up with this industry. My feed reader is constantly overflowing, the social feeds never stop, and vendors keep shipping interesting things. I’ll likely compensate by narrowing my attention a bit, but wow. So much happening.

[blog] Docker Brings Compose to the Agent Era: Building AI Agents is Now Easy. Very cool integrations for AI frameworks, and publishing Compose specs to Google Cloud Run in one command.

[blog] From localhost to launch: Simplify AI app deployment with Cloud Run and Docker Compose. Our deeper dive into Docker’s announcement.

[blog] How I use LLMs to learn new subjects. This seems like a reasonable way of looking at it. I liked the points about hallucinations.

[article] Survey Surfaces Significant Lack of Visibility Into Software Supply Chain Risks. It seems that a lot of folks don’t think they can see supply chain problems. Can you?

[docs] GraphRAG infrastructure for generative AI using Vertex AI and Spanner Graph. Here’s a terrific new guide for those doing a graph-based approach to retrieval augmented generation.

[article] How to Communicate with Your Team When Business Is Bad. We all react differently when a crisis hits. This post encourage a wise approach to handling this within your team.

[article] Shadow AI emerges in the enterprise. This is the least surprising headline of the year. 80% say employee AI tool adoption is outpacing the capacity for IT teams to vet the apps. And the other 20% are lying about it.

[article] How to Measure the ROI of AI Coding Assistants. Great asset here for team leaders that want to figure out what really matters in their dev experience.

[article] Introducing the AI Measurement Framework. Here’s more detail on the framework called out in the preceding article. Looks useful!

[blog] Cloud Storage bucket relocation: An industry first for non-disruptive bucket migrations. It’s not easy to move an object storage bucket to a different region. At least if you’re in any cloud besides Google’s.

[blog] Navigating the Mythical Sea of Sameness. I thought this was educational for those of us who communicate to others. Talking about differentiation can sometimes feel like bragging, but it’s important to help people understand what your company/product is uniquely doing.

[blog] What can agents actually do? Practical look at what AI agents are about, how to think about them, and what they’re capable of.

[blog] BigQuery meets ADK: 10 tips to safeguard your data (and wallet) from agents. We need more content about how to protect key assets in an environment with agents running loose.

[blog] A new era of Stack Overflow. I seem to recall a few of these resets from Stack Overflow lately, but I appreciate that they’re actively thinking about how to stay relevant to devs.

[article] Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription. The bar keeps going up, and Grok 4 has some impressive performance. Some testing already from Simon.

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