276 saved links, 2017–2026 (peak: 2023) — statistically tied with AWS, but a different animal entirely. This tag is where you follow two things: the DORA research program (every State of DevOps report since 2023 is here) and, since 2025, Google’s agent stack being assembled in public — ADK, A2A, Agent Engine, Agentspace, Gemini Enterprise. If Azure is where you work and AWS is what you study, GCP is where you watch the agentic platform war unfold.
Related: AI Agents · Kubernetes · DevOps · SRE & Observability · Machine Learning
The agent stack
- the first official agent skills for Google Cloud and Google’s official Agent Skills repository — capability layers for agents, 2026’s big theme.
- ADK (Agent Development Kit): the launch — build agents without deep expertise · zero to running ADK agent on Cloud Run · agent state and memory · tools make an agent · connecting ADK agents to external MCP servers.
- Vertex AI Agent Engine — deploy, manage, scale and the five-step agent workflow.
- Architecture: the multi-tenant agentic AI reference architecture · agentic patterns — “if you don’t need more than one agent, keep it simple” · “every agentic solution shouldn’t go straight to multi-agent. Simmer down.” · 4 steps for startups building multi-agent systems.
- The ecosystem plays: A2A donated to the Linux Foundation · Gemini Enterprise · the partner Agent Gallery · ADK + AG-UI for agent frontends.
- Thomas Kurian on the agentic moment — the Stratechery interview; the strategy behind all of the above.
- Knowledge cards: “stop forcing your agents to guess the unwritten rules of your business” — context engineering, GCP edition.
Vertex AI & gen-AI plumbing
- Vertex AI RAG Engine goes GA and what the managed RAG service does.
- Memory Bank in public preview — managed memory for agents.
- Evaluation, a real sub-thread: Gen AI Evaluation Service · model-based metrics · the agent evaluation service docs · evaluating an A2A agent · Promptfoo + Vertex AI · understanding the “why” behind agent actions.
- Vertex AI Prompt Optimizer · the Gemini Live API for voice-driven agents.
- Databases meet agents: MCP Toolbox for Databases · pgvector, LLMs, and LangChain on Cloud SQL · grounding with embeddings and vector search.
- the anatomy of a cloud-hosted gen-AI app — the six components, canonically named.
DORA & the research shelf
- The reports, year by year: 2023 · 2024 · 2025 — State of AI-Assisted Software Development.
- the DORA report on measuring ROI of AI — “AI value depends more on org systems.”
- the paradox: AI improves flow but reduces time spent on valuable work · “AI will break the stagnation in developer productivity, but only if you do it right”.
- DORA’s documentation-culture research — the underrated finding, saved twice.
SRE & operations
- AI in SRE: where Google deploys agentic AI in its own operations — the future of the pager.
- from paging to postmortem: Google Cloud SREs using Gemini CLI for outage response.
- GKE troubleshooting playbooks · “a Cloud Run service was slow — here’s how we fixed it” · AI cold starts on Cloud Run.
- how the Spanner team does chaos testing on purpose · the new Cloud Trace explorer.
- the SRE systems-engineering syllabus · SRE turns 20.
GKE & infrastructure
- Kube Resource Orchestrator — the GCP/AWS/Azure collaboration — cloud-agnostic Kubernetes resource composition.
- AI/ML orchestration on GKE · one-checkbox Ray on GKE · deploying an ADK agent with a self-hosted LLM on GKE.
- the State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report.
- the Architecture Center · 20 reference architectures for visual learners · architecting disaster recovery.
- the Architecture Diagramming Tool — from diagram to deployable.
Learning GCP
- codelabs that turn Next announcements into working code · hands-on labs for deploying your first agent · labs for mastering AI evaluation.
- the Google Developer Program + Innovators’ AI Skills Quest — the free-credits pipeline.
- Startup School: Gen AI · the “12 days” free training bundles.
- the Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification — the GCP cert that matches your direction.