Can Google ADK Talk to Microsoft Foundry on Azure? A Cross-Cloud A2A Benchmark

<p><code>to_a2a()</code> turns an ADK agent into an A2A server in one line. That is genuinely the shortest path from an <code>LlmAgent</code> to something another vendor's agent

<p>Over the last six articles in this series I built the same currency benchmark<br /> six times, each time changing which cloud gives the orders and which cloud takes<br /> them.

<p>This article provides a step by step look at running a Google ADK agent on Cloud Run, and serving it over the A2A protocol to callers that are not ADK.</p> <p>The code is

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<p>Vertex AI has been Google Cloud's AI development platform since 2021. On April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google retired it — not with a deprecation notice,

<p>On April 30th I got an email from Google about something called GEAR, their new program for building AI agents using ADK, the Agent Development Kit. I signed up, watched the

<p>Your Intel laptop has an NPU. It has probably had one for a while. Intel has been marketing it enthusiastically. You have been ignoring it politely.</p> <p>Fair enough. Until

<p>Leveraging the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) and the underlying Gemini LLM to build Multi-Agent Applications with A2A protocol support using the Python programming