I had a fun weekend, with no option to do anything work related. Baseball, boating, and shenanigans with family. I probably get more inspiration for things to do at work because I’m living an enjoyable life outside of it. At least that’s what I tell myself.

[blog] Designing MCP tools for agents: Lessons from building Datadog’s MCP server (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/mcp-server-agent-tools/). Some hard-earned lessons here! There are at least 3-4 strong pieces of advice in this Datadog post.

[article] The revenge of SQL: How a 50-year-old language reinvents itself (https://www.infoworld.com/article/4140734/the-revenge-of-sql-how-a-50-year-old-language-reinvents-itself.html). Is SQL hot again? Is it about relational databases solving most use cases nowadays? Also you have SQL on the frontend, better SQL clients and more.

[article] EY hit 4x coding productivity by connecting AI agents to engineering standards (https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/ey-hit-4x-coding-productivity-by-connecting-ai-agents-to-engineering). Better models matter. But applying a smart context is a difference maker regardless of model.

[blog] Game on with Spanner: How Playstation achieves global scale with 91% less storage, 50% lower costs (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gaming/sony-interactive-playstation-games-library-spanner-heroes/). Cool story. A high performing database engine can end up saving you a ton of money and complexity.

[blog] How Do Large Companies Manage CI/CD at Scale? (https://semaphore.io/how-do-large-companies-manage-ci-cd-at-scale) Me building and running a simple deployment pipeline is not “scalable CI/CD.” What do teams do when they have lots of apps, pipelines, and targets? Some insight here.

[blog] Go for Backend Development — Why We Bet on It (https://appetizers.io/en/blog/go-for-backend-development/). Very strong, defensible case for using Go.

[article] When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry.” (https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry) Across roles, people are using AI past the point of their brains can handle. What leads to brain fry, and how to prevent it?

[blog] Hardware-Enabled Software and the Next Generation of Vertical AI (https://www.battery.com/blog/hardware-enabled-software-and-the-next-generation-of-vertical-ai/). I don’t pay a lot of attention to this space, so this was educational.

[blog] Firebase A/B Testing is now available for the web (https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/03/ab-testing-for-web/). The functional was available to mobile devs for a while, and now web users can take advantage of this powerful system for running experiments.

[blog] Terminals Are Cool Again (https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-03-05-terminals-are-cool-again). Maybe we should be building more terminal apps? I’m not sold that they’re more accessible than a web or desktop app. But there’s no doubt they’re lighter weight and can be more efficient to use.

[blog] gRPC on GKE for Fun & Profit Part 1 — An Overview (https://medium.com/google-cloud/grpc-on-gke-for-fun-profit-part-1-an-overview-d1aad77a318a). gPRC is a key technology within Google, and also many other companies that care about performance between services. See part 2 of this series (https://medium.com/@alexsmattson/grpc-on-gke-for-fun-profit-part-2-the-walkthrough-2adfaf218342) as well.

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