Big-ish reading list today, and my queue is still stubbornly bloated. There’s a lot going on in our industry, so I don’t expect a slowdown in content any time soon. I hope these roundups save you some stress in trying to keep up!
[blog] Your AI workloads still need a service mesh. “Need” might be a strong word, but “can make use of”, definitely. Good post by John.
[article] Why the AI era is forcing a redesign of the entire compute backbone. Hardware, networking, power, and more are subject to evolution when you deeply invest in AI.
[blog] Secure your storage: Best practices to prevent dangling bucket takeovers. Yeesh, this refers to an attack vector I hadn’t thought of. Is your code referring to cloud storage buckets that were deleted? What happens if someone else takes that name/URI?
[blog] How Tech Companies Undermine Their Content Marketing. Smart guidance, which could apply to content creation for any (internal/external) audience.
[blog] Introducing GPT-5. Congrats to OpenAI on a big launch day, with well-coordinated support across a lot of popular surfaces. Well done. Ethan and Simon both take a deeper look and conclude that it’s good, competent, but not transformational.
[blog] Redefining enterprise data with agents and AI-native foundations. You can do a ton with a great model. But I get excited about the experiences on top that help me do interesting things. Here’s a great case of value atop AI models.
[blog] The latest AI news we announced in July. I’m liking the breadth of useful capabilities we’re getting into the hands of users.
[blog] Spanner columnar engine: Powering next-generation analytics on operational data. Maybe one database engine is all you need? Cloud Spanner now makes it simpler to do analytical queries against operational data.
[blog] How Google and NASA are testing AI for medical care in space. If history repeats itself, innovations discovered here will make their way to everyday experiences for humanity.
[blog] Go at American Express Today: Seven Key Learnings. Go isn’t just for tool builders and leading edge companies. It’s for the most demanding environments too.
[blog] Interesting Links and Observations, July 31st, 2025. My friend Fintan shares link roundups from time to time, and this one has references to half-a-dozen dev surveys that are worth reviewing.
[article] Getting started with A2A in .NET. Cool to see Microsoft contribute an early preview of a .NET SDK for A2A. Building multi-agent solutions is getting simpler.
[blog] Vibe-coding a Chrome extension with Gemini CLI to summarize articles. I’m fairy sure that Guillaume wouldn’t describe himself as an “extension developer” but nowadays, anyone can build anything. Great story here.
[blog] Atlassian partners with Google Cloud to power a multi-cloud future. Glad to see Atlassian hosting some of their most important properties on Google Cloud.
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