I Looked Past the Keynote Hype: Why A2A + ADK Is the Real Story of Google Cloud NEXT '26

The author identifies the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol v1.0 and the Agent Development Kit (ADK) as the real story of Google Cloud NEXT '26, looking past the keynote hype. They highlight A2A's native integration across major multi-agent frameworks and ADK's stable releases as crucial for addressing actual development friction points.