Don’t let some of my downbeat reading items make you think I had a bad day. It was a good one! For some reason, I came across a handful of cautionary words today. Which is ok, because we should be asking questions and looking around corners.

[report] The State of Java 2025 (https://lp.jetbrains.com/the-state-of-java-2025/). Lots of data here, some of it surprising to me. Amazing to see so much Java in China, and from a generally young crowd. Also that more and more people are forgoing any framework.

[blog] Five techniques to reach the efficient frontier of LLM inference (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/five-techniques-to-reach-the-efficient-frontier-of-llm-inference/). Important stuff here for ML engineers and platform teams.

[blog] Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents (https://standupforme.app/blog/some-uncomfortable-truths-about-ai-coding-agents). Everything isn’t awesome all the time. Maintain healthy cynicism with tech progress to ensure you’re not doing worse work.

[article] What kinds of new debt are teams accumulating with AI? (https://rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-137-what-kinds-of-new-debt-are) Smart question to ask, and account for.

[article] Lagging cloud maturity threatens enterprise AI plans (https://www.ciodive.com/news/ntt-data-cloud-readiness-AI/816146/). If your cloud adoption has stalled—both usage of services and adoption of cloud-style practices—I don’t see how you’ll be widely successful deploying AI for your teams and customers.

[blog] Cloud Run Jobs vs. Cloud Batch: Choosing Your Engine for Run-to-Completion Workloads (https://medium.com/google-cloud/cloud-run-jobs-vs-cloud-batch-choosing-your-engine-for-run-to-completion-workloads-8590a8e3a3b1). The major hyperscalers offer more than one service to do the same task. But there are subtle differences that help you pick which service to use, as pointed out here.

[blog] Six Takeaways From KubeCon EU 2026 (https://medium.com/intuit-engineering/six-takeaways-from-kubecon-eu-2026-bb2ebbd8559e). I liked this roundup, as the Intuit Engineering team covers a good range of topics from the event.

[blog] Developer’s Guide to Building ADK Agents with Skills (https://developers.googleblog.com/developers-guide-to-building-adk-agents-with-skills/). Learn these patterns, as you’ll likely see them become common in your agent framework of choice.

[blog] Building my Comic Trip agent with ADK Java 1.0 (https://glaforge.dev/posts/2026/03/30/building-my-comic-trip-agent-with-adk-java-1-0/). Enterprise use cases are helpful for 1:1 mapping to your day job. But we can also get work inspiration from fun examples of new technologies.

[article] What next for junior developers? (https://www.infoworld.com/article/4152683/what-next-for-junior-developers.html) Get good at communication, analyzing the world around you, and understanding the big picture.

[blog] Google Cloud: Investing in the future of PostgreSQL (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/03/google-cloud-investing-in-the-future-of-postgresql.html). The big focus lately has been around replication capabilities for active-active setups.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: RSAC ’26: AI, security, and the workforce of the future (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-rsac-26-ai-security-and-workforce-of-the-future/). You’ll see some RSA recaps this week. This, and a bunch of security-focused links, can be found here.

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