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Recapping SEV0 San Francisco 2025

Earlier this week, we gathered in San Francisco for our second SEV0—almost a year after our very first event. SEV0 has always been about shining a light on the biggest challenges (and opportunities) in incident response. Last year, we were still talking about the fundamentals: blameless culture, strong processes, and lessons from the best in reliability. This year felt different. AI has moved from background noise to front and center in every conversation, every team, everywhere.

Automation Observability: See It, Fix It, Skip the Firefighting

IT leaders know the drill. An alert storm rolls in and the tickets pile up. Your team scrambles to piece together root causes before service degradation kicks in. But the firefighting rages on, even when you have enough dashboards, monitoring, and alerts to light up a Christmas tree. Enterprise leaders need to quit burning budget on shiny dashboards that look good in the boardroom but do nothing to stop outages in the real world.

The Unit Economics Of Watering My Lawn: A Lesson On Runaway AI Costs

My wife and I spent hours this summer at home digging in the dirt. We planted new shrubs and perennials and created a small vegetable garden. We spread many square yards of fresh topsoil and grass seed over areas of lawn that needed rejuvenation. It turns out, I should have done all that landscaping with a FinOps leader’s mindset — before my water bill tripled when I wasn’t looking.

Ubuntu Pro Containers on AWS: Secure Your Workloads

‎‎ Subscribe and join the Ubuntu community. ‎ ‎‎ Learn how to build and run Ubuntu Pro containers on AWS with enhanced security coverage. In this step-by-step walkthrough, we demonstrate how Ubuntu Pro enhances protection for third-party open-source libraries, enabling you to patch CVEs more quickly and maintain secure workloads. You’ll see how to: · Launch an Ubuntu Pro server on AWS· Create and attach Pro containers using tokens· Build a simple PHP container with Pro security updates enabled· Verify security patches with ESM repositories· Run and test your container on AWS.

Ship features faster and safer with Datadog Feature Flags

Releasing new features is one of the highest-stakes moments in the software delivery life cycle. Even with CI/CD pipelines in place, plenty of things can still go wrong when a feature goes live for actual users. Most feature flagging tools operate in isolation from important observability tooling, forcing engineers to monitor changes across multiple disconnected systems to fully understand their impact. This slows down development and increases the chance of missing critical issues.

JFrog and ServiceNow: Accelerate Trusted Software Application Development

Today’s software organizations can’t make tradeoffs between speed and trust – you need both to succeed. But juggling them is tough. Moving too fast can lead to security vulnerabilities and compliance issues, while moving too slow means your competitors beat you to market. This tension creates friction that slows down every release, a problem that is rooted in your software pipeline.

Introducing Runner Replicas: Scalable, Reliable Automation for Modern Ops

When you’re responsible for the reliability of complex systems, the execution layer of your automation is not something you want to think about—it should just work. Whether you’re deploying code, patching servers, or responding to an incident at 3 a.m., your automation engine should be as resilient and scalable as the infrastructure it’s operating on.

AI-powered email automation with CI/CD pipelines

Email automation allows you to send emails automatically based on certain triggers or schedules, so you don’t have to click the Send button every time. This includes things like welcome messages, drip campaigns, and regular newsletters. In this tutorial, you will create a simple system that automatically welcomes new subscribers and sends them updates about technology, all with the help of AI.

Resolve + Espressive: Accelerating Zero Ticket IT with Agentic AI and Automation

Traditional IT operations are struggling under the weight of manual processes, growing complexity, and escalating expectations for employee experience. Without agentic AI driven by an intelligent orchestration engine, organizations risk falling behind. That’s why Resolve and Espressive have joined forces. Together, we’ll deliver the industry’s most advanced AI agents for enterprises, combining conversational intelligence with powerful automation to eliminate tickets end-to-end.

How to Overcome NaaS Integration Challenges

As network teams constantly search for new ways to simplify and optimize their networks, it helps to hear from experts who have spent years at the center of these transformations. One of these voices is Fabio D’Avino, a specialist in Network as a Service (NaaS) with more than seven years of experience researching, designing, and building global network services across industries.