Bigger list today as I try to clear out the queue. Too many great pieces lately! I’m still starting a dozen open tabs I need to read over the weekend. Could be worse.
[blog] React Native solved a problem nobody had. Use Flutter. Fundamental points being made here. If you want native, don’t use a proxy for native. But if you want a rendering engine for owned experience, that’s a case for Flutter.
[article] Meta’s next big AI bet is enterprise; its biggest hurdle may be trust. To be fair, it’s everyone’s hurdle. Everyone selling AI is also selling their trustworthiness with your data and actions. Hard to build, easy to lose.
[blog] Spanner Omni, now GA: A distributed, multi-model database that you can deploy anywhere. This is possibly the highest performing database ever created. And now you can run it wherever you want, including your laptop.
[blog] Can You SEO Your Way Into an AI Agent’s Recommendation? I’d bet that one or two things in here surprise you. They surprised me when we got the data.
[article] How do AI coding assistants change the shape of engineering work over time? This reiterates findings I’ve seen elsewhere, even inside Google. The work changes in a few ways, and you need to actively account for it.
[blog] Introducing the Server Side Cloud Swift SDK. Swift isn’t just for UI work on Apple client devices? I’m not sure I knew that. We just shipped an SDK for those who want Swift’s concurrency benefits on the server.
[blog] Why redesign doesn’t happen (enough). Sounds like a realistic story to me. What can remove the fear of making changes, breaking other PRs, and getting stuck in merge hell?
[blog] Devs are coding faster. Coding reviews are eating the gains. Some very sensible advice, with more specifics than I expected.
[blog] GKE CPU startup boost: Accelerate app starts without over-provisioning. This is the way. It’s similar to something we offer for serverless Cloud Run as well. Get a little extra CPU juice during startup.
[article] Survey Surfaces Sharp Increase in Amount of Code Written by AI. Some pleasant surprises in this data. Devs are spending less time coding, but more time learning. I like that 86% of devs find their new work more fulfilling.
[blog] Announcing Spanner queues: Transactional messaging for agentic workloads and beyond. Messaging geeks (me included) have feelings about using databases as queues. But there are real use cases, and this is sweet functionality.
[blog] How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it. Will all websites look alike soon if we’re all using AI tools? Not necessarily. Especially if you do it right.
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