Daily Reading List – September 25, 2025 (#635)

Today’s my birthday, and I celebrated with a quiet final day in South Korea. It’s been a good week, but I’m definitely eager to get back home. Should have a reading list for you tomorrow as well!

[blog] Meet the new GKE: Extending Autopilot to all qualifying clusters. Terrific. The best way to run Kubernetes in the cloud (Autopilot mode in GKE) is now available to any GKE cluster.

[blog] Deploy your own AI vibe coding platform — in one click! These folks do some fascinating things. Cool company. Here’s an open source vibe coding platform that uses Gemini by default.

[article] How Google’s dev tools manager makes AI coding work. My friend and coworker Ryan is featured here talking about AI coding tools and the future of development.

[blog] CRUD-Sourcing is why Your Event Streams Are Bloated. I like this point. And it applies to MCP servers, and all sorts of things. Stop modeling everything as CRUD operations. Think about event stream sessions and tools in context.

[blog] Introducing the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server: Streamlining Public Data Access for AI Developers. Provide trusted data to your LLM as context by using this new MCP server for the Data Commons dataset. It’s a long-running aggregation of the world’s public data. Press coverage here, and here.

[article] Is Seattle’s tech scene in trouble? WSJ report highlights concerning trends — with a potential opening for startups. When I lived up in the Seattle area, I thought the region was invincible to downturns given the critical services based there. I was wrong, and there’s definitely a change going on!

[article] It isn’t your imagination: Google Cloud is flooding the zone. A lot of strategery going on right now among the big players. I think we’re making some shrewd moves.

[blog] Launching Gemini CLI extensions for Google Data Cloud. Create a more structured an predictable way to bring cloud data into your CLI sessions. Create databases, perform analysis, and more.

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