This is a submission for the Posted as part of the Google Cloud NEXT '26 Writing Challenge on DEV. The developer keynote is available on the DEV homepage — worth catching for how the ADK and A2A story gets told to a technical audience.
Vibes Don't Scale: Why "Agentic Plumbing" is the Future of Production AI
- ▸ What I Mean By Plumbing
- ▸ Hardware for the AI Age: The TPU v8 Family
- ↳ TPU 8t (Training — codenamed "Sunfish")
- ↳ TPU 8i (Inference — codenamed "Zebrafish")
- ↳ Virgo Network: The Fabric That Ties It Together
- ▸ The A2A Protocol v1.0: Breaking the Vendor Lock-in
- ↳ What Agent Cards Actually Are
- ↳ The Production Signal That Matters
- ↳ A2A vs. MCP: The Two Layers
- ↳ Code Example: Building an A2A Agent
- ▸ ADK v1.0: What "Stable" Actually Buys You
- ↳ Model Armor: Security at the Protocol Level
- ▸ MCP Servers: The Announcement Nobody's Talking About
- ▸ Governance: Active Directory for the AI Era
- ↳ Agent Identity
- ↳ Agent Registry
- ↳ Agent Gateway
- ↳ Memory Bank
- ▸ The Agentic Data Cloud: Grounding Agents in Reality
- ↳ Knowledge Catalog (formerly Dataplex)
- ↳ Reverse ETL for BigQuery (Preview)
- ↳ Spanner Columnar Engine (GA)
- ▸ Where I'm Skeptical
- ▸ What to Actually Do With This
- ▸ The Part That's Easy to Miss
- ▸ Conclusion: From Prompter to Orchestrator
- ▸ Resources to Dive Deeper
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