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AI Chief of Staff for Engineering Leaders

Meet Cortex’s AI Chief of Staff, your new strategic partner for engineering leadership. This isn’t just another dashboard. It’s an intelligent advisor that connects your engineering data, scorecards, and DORA metrics to give you real-time, actionable insights. What you'll learn in this video: Cortex’s AI Chief of Staff brings clarity and confidence to decision-making, helping leaders transform meetings into strategic, data-driven conversations that drive continuous improvement.

Shadow AI on Trial: The Phantom Threat to Compliance

Every law firm I meet can explain its information security policy in minutes. Far fewer can tell me which AI tools their staff actually used last week, and what data those tools touched. That gap is where Shadow AI sits, such as unsanctioned, unmonitored use of generative AI slips in. It promises speed, but it quietly creates exposure: confidentiality breaches, weak auditability, and a risk to governance when the regulator (or a client’s GC) asks hard questions.

Chargeback Vs. Showback: Choosing The Right Cost Allocation Model For FinOps

One of the most challenging aspects of running a SaaS business is dealing with highly variable costs. Every service you provide needs resources, and the demand for those resources fluctuates. Just when you think you’ve got this quarter’s budget nailed down, an engineer makes a restructuring decision or a new feature launch exceeds expectations (or falls flat). Suddenly, your bill looks totally different than what you were expecting.

New Feature Friday: Ask Your Engineering Metrics Anything | Cortex Engineering Intelligence for MCP

What if you could analyze your engineering metrics — just by asking a question? Now you can. Introducing Engineering Intelligence for MCP, a new Cortex feature that lets you query your engineering data through AI systems like Claude or Cursor. No dashboards. No BI setup. Just ask: “What’s driving our cycle time?” “Show me Q3 deployment trends.” “Where are our bottlenecks?” Cortex connects your real engineering data to your favorite AI client, so you can get instant, conversational insights on delivery, quality, and team performance — all without leaving your IDE.

Stop Debugging Blindly! How Traffic Capture Can Help Your Code #speedscale #trafficcapture #ai

Is AI "slop" or new code pushing tons of bugs into production? You can't test everything forever. Learn how traffic capture is the most efficient way to understand how your code is actually running in the real world. By grabbing data from sidecars, packet captures, or logs, you get the context you need to prevent bugs and improve performance.

What is AIOps and What Happens When IT Runs Itself?

The scale of modern IT is outpacing human capacity. Microservices, multi-cloud deployments, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have created a complex IT ecosystem, generating an exponential volume of operational data. Traditional operations teams, regardless of their skill, struggle to keep up. Because of this, forward-looking leaders are adopting AIOps in IT, not as an upgrade, but as a foundational shift.

The Power of JFrog Artifactory as Your Model Registry

In my previous blog, we demonstrated how the FrogML SDK streamlines the process of integrating custom-built or publicly sourced models from your IDE into JFrog Artifactory. Now that your models are securely stored, versioned, and managed, the natural next question arises: “Ok, so you have some models in JFrog Artifactory, now what?” This is where the real power of the JFrog Platform comes into play.

OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

In a microservices architecture, a single user request can pass through multiple services before completing. When performance drops or an error occurs, tracing that journey is the only way to locate the source. Distributed tracing provides that visibility. At its core are OpenTelemetry Spans — units of work that capture what each service does during a request.