James O'Reilly

See my latest blog for a behind the curtain look at how I used Gemini CLI and Conductor to manage a full RAG migration. - Spec-driven development 📝 - AI-driven TDD 🧪 - Infrastructure as Code ☁️ Scalable engineering is here. Link in the replies! ⬇️ #AI #Coding #GoogleCloud

10 codelabs from #GoogleCloudNext to start building today: 1. Build rich agent experiences (ADK + A2UI). Improve user interaction through intuitive, high-quality interfaces that allow users to interact with agentic systems seamlessly → goo.gle/41UfUBp 2. Build a multi-agent system. Create the architecture required to make multiple agents work together to achieve a shared goal → goo.gle/48R8aE4 3. Beyond the Simple SELECT: AlloyDB NL2SQL. Democratize data access by building systems that allow users to query complex databases using natural language, supported by high-speed vector search → goo.gle/4cG6wWX 4. Beat fraud with an AI Shield (Spanner & BigQuery Graph). Implement real-time reasoning with Spanner and BigQuery Graph databases. Analyze complex relationships in your data to prevent fraud at the point of transaction → goo.gle/42o9FWK 5. Build secure agents by protecting access and data. Protect the reasoning engine with Model Armor and IAM to manage agent access and ensure that sensitive data remains protected during execution → goo.gle/42xTru5 6. Ground agents with Google Maps Platform. Use Geo-intelligent logistics to ground your agents in real-world location data to optimize field operations and logistics in real-time → goo.gle/4e7OU90 7. Deploy and scale agents on Agent Engine. Learn how to deploy agents as containerized microservices that scale dynamically with your workload → goo.gle/4sUbVQw 8. The ultimate guide to Cloud Run: from zero to production. Achieve rapid deployment using this lab as a blueprint for moving from a local prototype to a production-ready, auto-scaling platform on Cloud Run → goo.gle/48n006f 9. Developer Keynote: building agents with Skills. Learn the ins and outs of AI agent development, including Agent Development Kit (ADK), prompting, Agent Skill usage, and MCP → goo.gle/4tsqZFV 10. General Keynote: forecasting with AI Agents. Transform unstructured chaos into actionable business intelligence in seconds → goo.gle/4sWn5nP

Try this Git developer challenge: a bug appeared somewhere in the last 500 commits, and you have a test that detects it. What’s the shortest path to find the exact commit where it was introduced? Share your answer in the comments.

Stop context-switching between Dart and TypeScript. ✋🚫 ICYMI, you can now deploy Cloud Functions for Firebase using the Dart SDK. Try it out: firebase.google.com/docs/functions… #DartLang #Dart #Flutter #GoogleCloud

Keynotes, breakouts, demos—oh my! The Firebase team had a blast on the ground at #GoogleCloudNext. Thanks to all of the developers who joined us in Las Vegas. We can't wait to see how you use these new tools to keep building what's next! 🚀🔥

The official Google Cloud Agent Skills repository on @github is here! Skills are a simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise. Learn more → cloud.google.com/blog/topics/de… #GoogleCloudNext

The Developer Keynote at @googlecloud Next 2026 has kicked off with @rseroter and @twerske! Can’t wait to hear from our amazing team and see all the cool demos.

Almost time.

#GoogleCloudNext starts in less than an hour. You as excited as I am?

Hi GKE Friends 👋 Im getting ready for hashtag#GoogleCloudNext26 in Las Vegas 🇺🇸 next week and it will be a very busy week with breakout sessions, demos, meetups and more 😎. Be on the look for a GKE Recap 👀 I will be publishing when I came back. A lot of things are coming that I cannot talk about now 🤭 In this edition of the newsletter we shared some cool new features: ⏳ GKE Active buffer in Preview. 🚦 Gateway API 1.5 is fully supported on GKE. 💻 Native Custom Metrics for HPA. As usual, if you have something cool you want to see featured in the newsletter, DM me. Also, message me if you have any feedback 🙏 linkedin.com/posts/sabdelfe… #GoogleCloud #Kubernetes #ThisWeekInGKE #GKE #GKEAutopilot #TechNews #AI #GenAI

Building scalable RAG backend is easier than you think. 🛠️ New guide on using: 🔹 Cloud Run Jobs for parallel embeddings 🔹 AlloyDB + pgvector for storage 🔹 Vertex AI & Terraform Part 1 of my series is live! Link in the replies. 👇 #RAG #GoogleCloud #GenAI #PostgreSQL

At some point, it'll be possible to call an LLM from ANY piece of your architecture. Should you? We just added the ability to call LLMs (managed ones, or custom ones) from @googlecloud's messaging service Pub/Sub. I ask the question, and tried it out: seroter.com/2026/04/13/you…

💭 Inspired by @maxandersen I forked my own little 🤖𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 but using @langchain4j ➕ #gemini 2 approaches: 1⃣ AI service w/ all tools 2⃣ multi-agent w/ specialized tools Bonus: Web search & Markdown rendering glaforge.dev/posts/2026/04/…

AI speed or System Security? Both! You can now take control with Agent Permissions in @antigravity 🛡️🤖 You can define exactly what your Agent can/can't do with granular Allow, Deny, and Ask lists. Full control over: 💻 Commands (git, npm, scripts) 📂 Files (Read/Write specific paths) 🌐 URLs (Domain-level browsing) 🔌 MCP Tools Auto-commit but ask before deleting! Read your project files but stay away from your .env! antigravity.google/docs/agent-per… #Antigravity #AIAgent #Coding #Security

Running powerful local models on your phone is now a reality. The Google AI Edge Gallery goes way beyond chat with agent skills, device control, and more. It's not only useful, it's a lot of fun to play with.

Less time configuring, more time building 🛠️ We’re rolling out a new integrated Google Cloud credit activations experience directly into the Google Developer Program, starting with Codelabs! Codelab: codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/produ… (🎶 w/ Lyria 3)

Starting today, you can write raw SQL directly in Firebase Data Connect! 🎉 Learn how Native SQL gives you a way to execute everything from complex window functions to multi step common table expressions, as well as direct DML directly from your operations: goo.gle/4sL2UtF

This video is generated by Gemini, which provides a well-explained overview of Flutter repo (architecture, layers/components, build modes, rendered frame steps, channels...). I guess it's made before mono-repo, though. Source: codewiki.google/github.com/flu…

AI doesn't have to be scary, but it can help you build scary-good apps! 👻 Over the next several weeks, we'll share resources to help you go from prototype to production, so you can grow your app with the AI spark (and not the spooks). Stay tuned!

Google Firebase Studio is insanely good! I just built a multi-agent legal team from a single text prompt without writing a single line of Code. A full stack multi-agent app ready to deploy in less than 30 mins. And it's available for free in preview. Crazy!!