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Lessons from KubeCon: What "Best-of-Breed" AI SRE Really Requires

This year’s KubeCon underscored a real shift: AI SRE has gone mainstream. Of course, it’s not a surprise. Teams from high-growth startups to Fortune 500s are running more complex, cloud-native systems, shipping more AI-generated code, and facing rising expectations. Downtime is absolutely not an option and the work for on-call SREs has become unsustainable. The question isn’t whether AI SRE helps. It’s which one you can trust in production.

Grateful for Good Connections: Finding Calm in a Demanding Financial World

As the year winds down, my inbox is overflowing with Black Friday offers and festive greetings. It’s that time when Thanksgiving and the run-up to December holidays remind us to pause and appreciate what truly matters. Yet, in my recent conversations with IT leaders in financial services, I’ve noticed something: the time and calm need to do this feels elusive.

Searching Certificate Transparency Logs (Part 3)

Clickhouse is an incredible database. Here at Certkit, we’ve long worked in the world of “No SQL” databases like Elasticsearch precisely for their ability to query large amounts of data. But for every database, there’s an amount of data that’s “Too big”. Too big to query quickly or too big to store affordably. Clickhouse manages to thread the needle by efficiently storing truly ridiculous amounts of data while still providing impressive query performance.

Enhanced Environment Compliance with Environment Policies

We’re excited to announce an important enhancement to Kosli that will improve how environment compliance is managed across your organization. Starting with our next release, all compliance evaluation for Kosli environments will be consolidated through our powerful Environment Policies feature.

New Feature Friday: Understand & Improve Your DORA Performance with Cortex

This week on New Feature Friday, we’re highlighting two new releases that make it easier than ever to understand and improve your DORA performance: DORA Academy Course A guided learning experience that shows you how to use DORA Metrics and Cortex together to drive better engineering outcomes—without the data chaos. DORA Operational Readiness Scorecard An out-of-the-box template that benchmarks each service against DORA standards, giving teams an instant snapshot of where they stand and where to focus.

Top 7 Observability Platforms That Auto-Discover Services

You can use an observability platform that automatically discovers your services and provides ready-to-use dashboards with minimal setup. If you're running a system where microservices come and go, containers shift around, or serverless functions scale up quickly, this kind of experience saves you a lot of time. You gain visibility as soon as something goes live, without requiring any additional steps on your part. In this blog, we talk about the top seven platforms that offer these capabilities.

Incident Management vs Change Management: Key Differences Explained

The Incident Management vs. Change Management are two such moments that highlight a core difference teams face every day. One is a reaction to failure. The other is a planned improvement. That’s the heart of incident management vs. change management. Both keep systems reliable, and both help teams move faster without breaking things. Let’s explore how they differ and how they work together.