Flew to Philadelphia today to do a keynote at a customer’s internal developer conference tomorrow. Should be fun, although I’m definitely getting a little burnt out by all the recent travel!
[blog] Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model. What can you build with agents that can navigate user interfaces? Try out our new Computer Use model.
[article] From Autocomplete to Agents: Mapping the Design Space of AI Coding Assistants. Great analysis. These ten dimensions, and six personas, are a useful way to understand the landscape.
[blog] Why Google Cloud Run is the most underrated container platform – Part 1. I’d go as far to say that it’s one of the best (compute) services on the Internet.
[blog] MCP Development with Rust, Gemini CLI, and Google Cloud Run. Here’s one example why Cloud Run is great. You have virtually no limit on programming language or scenario.
[article] Beyond the Hype: Architecting Systems with Agentic AI. Long conversation, but some interesting points about some of the bigger lifecycle considerations for AI agents.
[blog] Databases on K8s — Really? (part 8). My colleague at Google has been sharing a series of thoughts about his journey to appreciating containers and Kubernetes a a viable host for databases.
[blog] Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI. You can do spec-driven development in many ways. GitHub created a cool framework that they’re demonstrating here.
[blog] Connect Spark data pipelines to Gemini and other AI models with Dataproc ML library. Integrating apps or data pipelines with AI models is getting more and more seamless. This looks like a very handy way to bring Gemini models to Spark data.
[blog] Accelerate AI with Agents: Event Series for Developers in EMEA. This roadshow has been overbooked in every city it’s visited. We’re rolling across EMEA, and see if your hometown is in the mix.
[blog] Ask a Techspert: What is vibe coding? We’re all builders now. What we build, and how production-ready it is, depends on the builder and the circumstances.
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