Daily Reading List – January 13, 2026 (#699)

It’s early in the year, but so far, there’s definitely more content about implementation and practices, less on brand new things. I’m good with that.

[article] 4 CIO trends to watch in 2026. These look like good areas to keep an eye on this year.

[blog] One Million Vectors, Zero Loops: Generating Embeddings at Scale with AlloyDB. Loved this. I learned like seven things. How is it that easy to add synthetic data to a database? And how amazing that you can delete your entire embedding pipeline and replace it with a single SQL command?

[blog] AI Won’t Kill Open Source – It Will Amplify It. Lots of (real, and manufactured) angst last week about Tailwind and whether AI was killing OSS. Here’s a counter perspective.

[article] Signals for 2026. Outstanding post that looks at trends in key technology categories. Almost all of these resonate with me.

[blog] 5 Things You Should Know Before Building a Multi-Agent System with Google ADK. Every solution creates new problems. This person learned some things while trying to build a multi-agent system.

[blog] Implementing Zero Trust A2A with ADK in Cloud Run. Useful topic. Doing zero-trust with agents? I haven’t seen a ton written about it.

[blog] Best practices for coding with agents. From Cursor. I’m not sure all “best practices” apply to each agentic tool, but there’s absolutely some general wisdom here.

[blog] Coding Agent Development Workflows. So many experience reports lately! I like it. People are figuring out the workflows that work best for them. Maybe some will turn into widely adopted techniques.

[article] Agentic Terminal – How Your Terminal Comes Alive with CLI Agents. Let’s keep talking about agentic CLIs! Many dev workflows now include them. Including planning-centric capabilities like Conductor in the Gemini CLI.

[blog] Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video: More consistency, creativity and control. Some sweet updates to those of us making engaging and high quality videos with AI.

[article] Is Your Leadership Style Too Nice? Maybe. I’m trying to follow more of the advice called out here.

[blog] A gRPC transport for the Model Context Protocol. Being in a foundation doesn’t mean creators of an open project give up roadmap control. Make your voice heard if you’d like to see extensible transports for MCP.

[blog] A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting. Good milestone for an open source foundation to celebrate. A key reason they exist is to make it easier for people to contribute to projects.

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