It’s a week of MCP news. Yesterday, it was included in an new open source foundation. And today, we’re delivering some terrific MCP capabilities in the cloud.
[blog] Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Google services. This is great. Fully-managed remote MCP servers for services like Google Maps, BigQuery, and GKE. With more to come. More here.
[blog] Announcing MCP support in Apigee: Turn existing APIs into secure and governed agentic tools. Turn APIs into MCP tools, with all the policies and observability you expect from a platform like Apigee. Extra sweeteners included if you’re using our Agent Development Kit.
[article] Is vibe coding the new gateway to technical debt? Great for people who know how to build software, probably ending in frustration for those who don’t.
[article] The Cinderella “Glass Slipper” Effect. Are users finding the “right fit” in AI products and sticking around for longer? For a set of AI products, the answer is yes.
[blog] Pick up exactly where you left off with Session Management in Gemini CLI. Automatic session saving, and then keep going later? This is excellent.
[article] Mistral AI surfs vibe coding tailwinds with new coding models. Looks great, and it’s delivered under an open source license.
[blog] 21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google. You can certainly disagree with a few of these, but if you follow this general path, you’d have a great career in tech. I’m glad Addy is now a Cloud colleague.
[blog] 15 examples of what Gemini 3 can do. If you showed me this post a year ago, I probably wouldn’t have believed this was possible 12 months later.
[article] Log4j downloads shows supply chain wake-up call ignored. Way too many people are still downloading vulnerable version of this library. That’s bonkers.
[blog] Report: How People Use AI at Work. This post looks at data, and what’s actually happening in the real world.
[blog] Agent Engineering: A New Discipline. LangChain shared a post about “refining non-deterministic LLM systems into reliable production experiences.”
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