Daily Reading List – June 4, 2026 (#798)

I enjoyed the day in Paris at our big Cloud event. Many great customer discussions, and keynote where all my live demos worked. Miracle! Flying home tomorrow, so may or may not have a list depending on airplane wifi.

[blog] Essential books for product builders—part 1. What a list. I added a couple of these to my own wish list.

[article] Budgeting your team’s code review capacity. Reviews still happen at human speed, even if you’re generating 10x the code. Of course some are applying AI to reviews as well. But then you lose all awareness of what your system does. Check this out for a take on the problem, and a solution.

[blog] Modular Monolith Boundaries Done Wrong. Start with ownership. That’s the guidance here.

[blog] The Future of Agents. Nobody knows what’s going to happen next, but I appreciate people who chew on that question. I agree with most of this!

[blog] Connecting AI agents with unstructured data using Google Cloud Storage MCP Servers. Start to imagine what you can do with an easy way for agents to store and retrieve all types of digital data (screenshots, PDFs).

[blog] My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development. Good stuff. Is someone making it easy to start an agentic coding session with a pre-loaded set of default skills for the given situation? You’d add a TDD one for legit coding sessions.

[blog] Kaggle is making AI benchmark creation effortless. Build and work on these model tests from your local environment now.

[article] Reliability Engineering for Air-Gapped Systems. I’ve thought very little (not at all?) about this problem. This helped me develop some understanding of it.

[blog] How XP Made A Better AI Coder. Aja shares how some fundamentals of software come in handy now.

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