The results are in! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Google Cloud NEXT '26 Writing Challenge.
Your submissions covered a lot of grou...
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Great work @ujja, @yinkaabeeb, @fm, @idncod, and @sreejit_caab72e273a4faa1f!!! Well done and Congrats :D
Thank you so much🥰. Really enjoyed this hackathon and looking forward to the next one 💪
Thanks a lot! 🙏
Thank you! It was a pleasure to write for such an amazing community of techies.
Congrats to the winners! Amazing work!
Congrats!!
Some great posts here
Congratulations to all the winners 👏
Thank you so much to the DEV team and @jess, and huge congratulations to the other winners.
I really enjoyed writing this piece because Google Cloud NEXT ’26 made it very clear that IAM is no longer just about users, because with agents entering production systems, IAM is becoming the trust map for humans andd delegated actions.
Really grateful that this perspective resonated with the community. Thank you for running the challenge. Delighted to have the unique badge on my Dev account!
Congrats to the winners!
This is exactly the kind of content the community needs! The examples are clear and the fixes are practical. I've personally struggled with the dependency array issue you mentioned in pattern #3 - it's easy to over-correct by adding too many dependencies. Your approach of rethinking the data flow is much cleaner. Would love to see a follow-up covering similar patterns with useRef and useContext. Excellent write-up!
Congrats
Congrats to all the winners! 🎉
I also submitted posts for this challenge, and while I didn't make the winner list, getting a nod from Richard Seroter on one of them was genuinely encouraging. That alone made the whole effort worth it.
The range of topics this challenge pulled out—from agentic architectures to billing‑page horror stories—shows how alive this community is right now. Thanks to the DEV team for running these. They stretch us in ways regular blogging doesn't.
And a special thank you to Richard Seroter and the entire judging panel for reading through what must have been a mountain of submissions. The time you put into this — reading, evaluating, and even dropping personal feedback — doesn't go unnoticed.
To the DEV team: these challenges are a rare thing. They push us to write with more depth and clarity than we'd normally muster, and that alone sharpens a lot of skills. Grateful to be part of a community that values that kind of growth.
On to the next one. 🚀
Thanks Google, @jess and the Dev Team!
Just woke up to this pleasant surprise! 🤩❤️
Congrats!!
Damn, these are really nice and informative articles. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and kudos to the winners 🤩.
Than you everyone