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Nicholas Herring shares how EVE Online tackles distributed tracing and observability across a 20-year-old MMO architecture. He discusses leveraging…
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Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development
Spotify reports that AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes, prompting a review of quality and reliability controls across…
Most AI incident tools still leave a key decision to humans
An AI SRE agent can help troubleshoot an incident. But can you trust it to decide on its own when The post Most AI incident tools still leave a key…
Dynatrace’s $915M Arize deal bets AI agents are just another app to monitor
Dynatrace closed its $915 million acquisition of Arize on October 1, joining Arize’s tracing and evaluation of AI agents to The post Dynatrace…
XCOR launches to trace outages in minutes. It still pages engineers.
Palo Alto Networks introduced a new approach to AI-driven observability last week, signaling a shift from dashboards and manual incident The post XC…
Presentation: Building Reusable Evaluation Frameworks for Agentic AI Products
Susan Chang explains how Elastic transitioned from siloed, ad-hoc AI agent evaluations to a unified, production-grade framework. She discusses balan…
Presentation: Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI
The panelists discuss how production operations are evolving with AI, turning operational data into actionable insights for incident response. They…
Performance engineering from kernel analysis to AI: Adrian Cockcroft’s take
Over its five-year history, P99 CONF has hosted quite a few speakers who’ve offered pointed takedowns of the namesake metric. The post Perform…
Presentation: Adaptive Recommenders in the Real World: Inference, Evals, and System Design
Mallika Rao explains that the true complexity of adaptive recommendation systems lies outside model architecture. She discusses how real-time feedba…
Stateless MCP Removes Session Affinity Requirements for AWS Server Deployments
AWS details how the latest Model Context Protocol specification removes protocol-level sessions, sticky-session requirements, and session storage fo…
Grafana Turns Cypress Test Results Into Persistent Observability Data
Grafana Labs has published a practical approach for monitoring Cypress test suites by converting test results into Prometheus metrics and sending th…
Cursor acquired Firetiger. A month later, Cursor launched a bot that tracks code changes through to production.
We all know that producing code is easier than ever thanks to the abundance of AI coding tools and agents. The post Cursor acquired Firetiger. A mon…
It passed CI. It passed your evals. The customer still got the wrong answer.
A diff is not evidence. It’s a statement of intent. The tests passed. The review’s done. The change is live. The post It passed CI. It p…
Session Traces and Cost Controls Help Diagnose AI Agent Failures
Session traces and cost controls are emerging as key observability techniques for diagnosing AI agent failures, helping teams spot tool-call loops a…
How to find failures without drowning in tracing data
A metrics dashboard can tell you a system’s health with ease. A log can help you understand a discrete failure. The post How to find failures…
Presentation: Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response
Anthropic reliability engineer Alex Palcuie shares practical lessons on using LLMs for real-world incident response. He explains where AI acts as a…
How telemetry pipelines keep AI agent costs under control
As enterprises move from experimenting with AI to running autonomous agents in production, an infrastructure problem is emerging: rising telemetry T…
Microsoft Moves AI Governance From Policy to Runtime Enforcement
Microsoft has outlined an AI governance architecture spanning nine governance domains and four functions: policy, control, visibility, and proof. Th…
Presentation: Enchant Your AI and APIs with eBPF Magic 🪄
Dan Finneran discusses the risks of unowned AI-generated code in production and demonstrates how eBPF can intercept and control AI API traffic in Ku…
How Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Becomes Write-Only and Disposable
Artificial intelligence (AI) makes all code write-only,. It’s too dense to read, and tests define the behaviour and become the documentation. Code i…
Grafana's gcx and MCP Server Reach GA for Telemetry-Driven Agent Development
Grafana Labs has announced general availability for two tools that let AI coding agents query live observability data during development: the gcx CL…
Cloudflare Adds Agent Tracing, with Truncation Limits and Uneven Payload Defaults
Cloudflare launched agent tracing, adding spans for agent invocations, model calls, tool runs, and approvals to existing Workers traces. Sessions re…
More Incidents Don't Necessarily Mean Less Reliability
One of the most common assumptions in engineering leadership is that a rising number of reported incidents signals declining system reliability. How…
AI skills start on laptops. Enterprises inherit the mess.
“It’s unrealistic to expect an admin to have context over how every skill in a company should be optimally performing,” The post A…
Presentation: Keeping ChatGPT Fast as AI Development Accelerates
Martin Spier explains how agentic workflows dramatically increase code change volume at OpenAI. He discusses the hidden systemic performance costs o…
Instacart Builds Blueberry, an AI-Powered Assistant to Help On-Call Engineers Investigate Incidents
Instacart introduced Blueberry, an AI-assisted incident response system that helps on-call engineers investigate production issues faster. It combin…
AI Is Transforming Incident Response - but the Hardest Problems May Still Belong to Humans
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how engineering teams respond to production incidents, offering the ability to summarize incident channe…
Podcast: Culture & Methods Trends 2026: The Human Side of AI Engineering
This is the Engineering Culture Trends Report for 2026. Featuring a panel of QCon speakers and InfoQ contributors, they discussed AI adoption maturi…
Why your company should (try to) build its own AI SRE
Companies ship more code today than ever, thanks to agentic coding tools. For product teams, this accelerated pace of development The post Why your…
AI Root Cause Analysis Shifts from Model Reasoning to Context Engineering
Engineers are increasingly arguing that modern LLMs can already reason through root cause analysis once given correctly prepared context, shifting t…