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Congrats to the Google Cloud NEXT '26 Writing Challenge Winners!

Jess Lee on May 07, 2026

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

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ujja

Thank you so much🥰. Really enjoyed this hackathon and looking forward to the next one 💪

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Fayaz

Thanks a lot! 🙏

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Viola Lykova

Thank you! It was a pleasure to write for such an amazing community of techies.

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Congrats!!

Some great posts here

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Giorgi Kobaidze

Congrats to the winners! Amazing work!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Congratulations to all the winners 👏

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Viola Lykova

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!

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Kui Luo

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!

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Juan Torchia

Congrats to the winners!

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Fayaz

Thanks Google, @jess and the Dev Team!
Just woke up to this pleasant surprise! 🤩❤️

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Sreejit Pradhan

Than you everyone

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Daddy Onlinecricketid

Congrats

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Chinyere John-Nnah

Congrats!!

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Konark Sharma

Damn, these are really nice and informative articles. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and kudos to the winners 🤩.