Three Truths About AI SRE
The current enthusiasm for AI in Site Reliability Engineering (AI SRE) is well-founded. We are seeing incredible advancements in agents that can ingest alerts, parse logs, and propose rapid solutions to outages. They are becoming increasingly confident when it comes to suggesting bug fixes, patching vulnerabilities, and helping coordinate around incidents. But there is a […]
Getting to Reliable AI-Driven Development
To truly transform software delivery with AI, organizations must embrace a spec-driven approach. By grounding AI in clear specifications, this approach prevents AI from generating hallucinations while optimizing token costs by 8x–12x lower. The use of AI in software development is now practically universal. According to the 2026 Software Lifecycle Engineering Decision Maker Survey from […]
Smoothing the Never-Ending Road to Modernization
In IT, it can sometimes feel like the finish line keeps getting farther away, no matter how fast we run. Cloud migration reshaped how organizations think about infrastructure, offering new scalability and agility, while creating years of intensive migration work that continues to this day. Then, application modernization shifted the conversation from where workloads run […]
Why Software Supply Chain Security Is Moving to the Gate
March 2026: malicious versions of axios get published directly to npm. May 2026: attackers forge valid provenance for 42 TanStack packages on npm, with 84 malicious versions shipped before detection. August 2026: a worm uses one maintainer’s stolen credentials to self-propagate through keyv and its dependent packages. Builds pull in thousands of open source packages […]
Why DNS Needs to Be Treated as Critical Infrastructure
DNS is one of those infrastructure components that only gets attention when something breaks, and by then, the damage is already done. An application may appear healthy, servers may be reachable, and network connectivity may show green across the board. However, users cannot get in, and the on-call engineer is staring at logs trying to […]
Speeding Up Software Delivery Is Changing How We Debug Performance
Deployment frequency has become one of the clearest markers of a mature engineering organization. Teams that once shipped monthly now ship daily, and teams that shipped daily now ship several times a day. This shift has largely delivered on its promise. Smaller changes are easier to reason about, rollbacks are faster, and feedback loops are […]
The Blind Spot Between Back‐End Metrics and User Experience
Engineering teams often face a frustrating scenario when application performance monitoring (APM) shows perfect Apdex scores and negligible error rates, yet user retention drops due to poor front‐end performance. The solution requires bridging the gap between healthy back‐end metrics and the actual experience delivered in the browser. Teams that have built back‐end observability without instrumenting […]
Why DNS, DHCP, and IPAM Can No Longer Live in Separate Silos
Ask a network engineer where their DNS records live, and the answer is rarely straightforward. Some zones reside on Windows DNS servers, others are hosted in cloud-managed services, while DHCP scopes are spread across regional data centers, branch offices, and virtual networks. Meanwhile, IP address visibility is frequently fragmented across different management platforms, making routine […]
Transforming Mainframe Recovery
Moving beyond disaster recovery, organizations can ensure business-critical mainframe environments. Over decades, the mainframe has earned a reputation for being synonymous with reliability. Many enterprise organizations continue to rely on the mainframe precisely because of the redundancy, automatic recovery, and availability that leads to “nine nines” reliability or 31.56 milliseconds of unplanned annual downtime per […]
UiPath Test Cloud: Robots Handle Repetition, Agents Adapt and Humans Lead
Most companies don’t actually struggle to ship software anymore. AI made that part fast. What they struggle with is releasing what they built with any real confidence in it. That gap between shipping fast and trusting what you shipped is what I’ve been calling quality debt at conferences all year, and it’s the same gap […]
What It Really Takes to Run OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry solved a real problem. Before it, every APM vendor had you install a proprietary agent, which meant switching vendors meant re-instrumenting everything. OTel gave engineering teams a vendor-neutral way to generate traces, metrics, and logs once and send them wherever they wanted. That part of the pitch is true, and open-source deserves credit for […]
Deterministic Robots, Agentic Reasoning: Balancing Reliability and Flexibility in Software Test Automation
Summary: Scott Robohn explores how UiPath Test Cloud mitigates the “release gap” caused by rapid, AI-driven development by offering a platform that blends a combination of deterministic automation, AI agents, and human oversight. By distinguishing between deterministic “robots” for efficient, cost-effective regression and flexible “agents” for complex reasoning, the platform empowers quality engineers to use […]
Where Agents Belong in Enterprise Testing: What I Took Away from UiPath Test Cloud
Introduction During a recent UiPath Test Cloud showcase with Tech Field Day, I had a chance to look past the usual “AI can automate testing” message and think about how agents might fit into a real enterprise delivery process. As a Cloud Solutions Architect with a DevOps mindset, I tend to look beyond whether a […]
The Surprisingly High Cost of ‘Free’ Search Solutions
Not long ago, some business leaders seemed to view enterprise search as a “nice-to-have.” Or, at the very least, they considered it more of a supporting utility than a strategic, business-critical platform. Organizations use enterprise search tools to help employees locate internal documents and enable support teams to surface relevant information. And, of course, retailers […]
The Anatomy of a $900,000 Validation Bill
A 50-developer team shipping at an agentic pace will spend roughly $900,000 this year on AI and developer tooling costs. Most of the engineering leaders I’ve talked to saw the compute costs coming. What they didn’t anticipate was where the rest of the bill was hiding. The culprit is a timing problem. Frontier models price […]
ManageEngine OpManager Nexus Adds MCP, GenAI, and Autonomous AI, With AI Sovereignty Built-In
ManageEngine OpManager Nexus enhanced its newly launched hybrid observability platform with a range of powerful AIOps capabilities. OpManager Nexus was launched in April 2026 with the merger of two of ManageEngine’s flagship observability solutions: OpManager Plus and Site24x7. The new platform is unique in the observability market with its dual deployment strategy: You can either […]
How AI in APM Spots Problems Before Users Do
A static alert at 80% CPU or a two-second response time threshold is an absolute judgment applied to a system that operates in relative terms. However, traffic patterns shift by hour, day, and season. Deployments alter performance baselines. External dependencies introduce latency profiles that no team fully controls. A fixed number stops being a reliable […]
AI Is Here to Stay. The Real Challenge Is Operating It Securely
AI-generated code is already in production. Whether we are comfortable with that or not is beside the point. In the OpenStack project, which I have helped steward for more than 15 years, we are seeing developers submit patches built with AI assistance, and sometimes patches composed almost entirely by AI tools. Some of those contributions […]
The Validation Gap Is Costing You More Than You Think
Our latest State of Software Delivery report analyzed more than 28 million CI workflows and found a pattern that should give engineering leaders pause. Average throughput grew 59% year over year. Main branch activity for the median team declined 7%. Teams are generating more code than ever before. Less of it is reaching production. The […]
A Day with Developer Assist: Faster Fixes, Cleaner Commits
Security tools promise to help developers. In practice, many of them just relocate the burden. The vulnerability still needs to be understood, researched, and fixed, only now the developer is doing it across two or three tools instead of one, hours or days after they wrote the code in question. The real test of an […]
Agentic AI for Defense: How Checkmarx Turns Security into a Coding Partner
“AI-powered” has become the default label for every security tool on the market. But there’s a meaningful difference between a tool that uses AI to generate alerts after the fact and one that actively participates in development, preventing vulnerabilities as code is written. That difference is what separates reactive AI from agentic AI. And it […]
Iceberg Won the Format War — Now Comes the Hard Part
Apache Iceberg has effectively won the open table format conversation. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks — every major platform has thrown its weight behind it. If you work in data engineering or platform operations, the question is no longer whether Iceberg is the right foundation. It’s what it actually takes to run it day […]
When AI Gets It Wrong: The Insecure Defaults Lurking in Your Code
The arrival of generative AI in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is arguably the biggest shift in coding in decades. For development teams, tools like GitHub, Copilot, and other AI assistants act as a massive force multiplier, automating boilerplate, suggesting complex logic, and significantly accelerating time-to-commit. But as organizations rush to equip their teams, a […]
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