The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Build a Cloud-Native SaaS Backend on GCP (12/23/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 23, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The First Transistor was Successfully Demonstrated in 1947, Argentina Announced Its Biggest Debt Default in History in 2001, The Federal Reserve System was founded via Federal Reserve Act in 1913, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Governing and Scaling AI Agents: Operational Excellence and the Road Ahead to When “big Tape” Stops Being a Storage Asset and Starts Acting Like Radioactive Data Waste, let’s dive right in.

Governing and Scaling AI Agents: Operational Excellence and the Road Ahead

By @denisp [ 23 Min read ] Success isnt building the agent; its managing it. From AgentOps to ROI dashboards, here is the operational playbook for scaling Enterprise AI. Read More.

Human Systems Design: Why Epigenetics Rewrites Everything We Know About Change

By @riedriftlens [ 6 Min read ] Mindset shifts fail because the nervous system prioritizes predictability. Why true change requires repetitive neurobiological processes, not just thoughts. Read More.

When “big Tape” Stops Being a Storage Asset and Starts Acting Like Radioactive Data Waste

By @carlwatts [ 8 Min read ] Can massive 100 TB+ tapes turn from preservation assets into liabilities? A veteran storage engineer explores risks, erasure coding, and future tape resilience. Read More.

We Let an AI Run a Business. Here Are 4 of the Strangest Things That Happened

By @hacker-Antho [ 5 Min read ] Researchers at Anthropic gave an AI named Claudius a real-world job: running a small shop in their office. Read More.

How to Build a Cloud-Native SaaS Backend on GCP

By @malkomich [ 20 Min read ] Build intelligent load balancing on GCP for Python microservices using GKE, NEGs, readiness probes, autoscaling, and observability to cut failures. Read More.

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