Blog Archive
anydoc: Turn Any Office Document into LLM-Ready Markdown in Milliseconds
Meet anydoc, Firecrawl's fast Rust library that converts Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, EPUB, and more into clean GitHub-Flavored Markdown with one consistent output.
Top AI Agent Frameworks for 2026: A Practical Comparison
A practical, evidence-based comparison of the leading AI agent frameworks in 2026 — LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen/AG2, Google ADK, and more — with guidance on how to choose.
Q2 2026 Retrospective: How the Gemini 3 Revolution Reshaped the Agentic AI Landscape
A developer-focused retrospective of the second quarter of 2026: Gemini 3.1 Pro maturity, Gemini 3.5 Flash GA, Deep Research Max, Managed Agents, Gemini Omni, and the agentic shift that defined Q2.
Streaming Gemini Interactions: SSE Events, Tools, Thinking, and Agents
A complete guide to streaming Gemini Interactions API responses with server-sent events - understanding step-based event flow, streaming with tools, function calling, thinking summaries, agents, and multimodal image generation.
Gemini File Input Methods: Inline Data, File API, GCS, and URLs Compared
Compare the four ways to include media files in Gemini Interactions API requests - inline base64 data, File API upload, GCS URI registration, and external URLs - with size limits, persistence, and code examples for each.
Mastering the Gemini File API: Upload, Manage, and Prompt With Media Files
A practical guide to the Gemini File API - uploading images, audio, video, and documents up to 2GB, managing file lifecycles, and using them in multimodal prompts with best practices for getting reliable outputs.
How to Run Long-Running AI Tasks With Gemini Background Execution
Learn how to use Gemini Interactions API background execution to run deep research, complex reasoning, and multi-step agent tasks asynchronously, with polling, streaming reconnection, multi-turn chaining, and cancellation patterns.
Scaling Beyond the Single Agent: Distributed Gemini 3 Clusters on Kubernetes
A single agent is a request; a cluster is a service. Learn to run distributed Gemini 3 agent workloads on Kubernetes with disaggregated prefill/decode, KV-cache-aware routing, gang scheduling, and SLO-driven autoscaling.
Gemini 3 for Accessibility: Real-time Multimodal Translation for the Inclusive Web
Accessibility is a multimodal problem: captions for the deaf, narration for the blind, sign language for signers. Learn to build an inclusive web layer with Gemini 3 that translates between speech, text, sign, and braille in real time — privacy-first and in the browser.
Gemini 3 in EdTech: Personalized Tutors that Adapt to Real-time Student Affect
The best tutor notices when you are confused, bored, or stuck — and changes how it teaches. Learn to build an adaptive Gemini 3 tutor that reads student affect in real time, adapts difficulty with cognitive-science models, and asks questions instead of handing out answers.
Building a Collaborative Gemini 3 Editor: Real-time Writing and Fact-Checking
Stop copying text between a doc and a chat window. Learn to build a collaborative editor where a Gemini 3 agent is a first-class co-author — reading, editing, and fact-checking the shared document through CRDTs in real-time.
The "Persona-Shift" Pattern: Dynamic Expert Simulation in Gemini 3
A static persona limits an agent to one role. Learn the Persona-Shift pattern: dynamic expert switching in Gemini 3 agents that lets a single model act as planner, critic, and specialist across a workflow — without persona drift.