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Scaling AI Reliability: Real world lessons from Mistral AI

How does one of the world's leading AI companies keep its infrastructure reliable while shipping new models constantly? In this webinar, Devon Mizelle, Senior SRE at Mistral AI, shares the real story. Devon walks through how Mistral built an automated system that generates synthetic checks for every model the moment it goes live—no manual configuration, no forgotten monitors, no inconsistent alerting. Using monitoring as code, his team eliminated the toil of maintaining hundreds of checks across a rapidly evolving model ecosystem.

Log Drains Now Available: Bringing Your Platform Logs Directly Into Sentry

Sentry now supports log drains, making it easy to forward logs into Sentry without any application code changes or manual project-key lookups needed. If your logs already exist somewhere else, you can now see them alongside errors and traces in Sentry, no code changes required. Already want to get started? The quickstart guide is one click away.

Why Context, Not Prompts, Determines AI Agent Performance

Prompt engineering improves single responses, but agent performance is determined by how execution context is captured, replayed, and constrained over time. For the past few years, enterprises have obsessed over prompts, with entire roles emerging around their design and an ecosystem of tooling and templates following close behind. This focus delivered early gains because it allowed teams to rapidly improve outputs without modifying the surrounding system. Over time, those gains flattened.

Datadog acquires Propolis

Generative AI enables teams to write and ship code faster than ever. But current methods for testing and quality assurance have not evolved to match the new pace and scale of deployments. Manual and deterministic testing paths quickly become obsolete when new features are released, and they fundamentally can’t test AI outputs, leaving a massive untested surface area. To keep up, teams need new testing methods that can define what goals users have, and ensure that their outcomes match.

AI is not intelligent. It's obedient.

Tech companies and brands love calling AI “intelligent.” But is it really? AI doesn’t decide what matters. Humans do. We decide what’s important, then feed prompts, data, and instructions into AI models so they work the way they do. At the end of the day, AI is obedient to human intelligence, not the other way around. And it’s on us to use it in ways that actually matter, instead of dismissing it or freaking out that it’s going to replace humans.

What API Performance Monitoring Looks Like in Real Production Environments

API performance monitoring has become a critical discipline for modern engineering teams, but most conversations around it stop at metrics, dashboards, and testing tools. Teams measure response time, track error rates, and run performance tests before release, yet APIs still slow down, silently fail, or violate SLAs in production. The problem isn’t a lack of monitoring. It’s a mismatch between how APIs are tested and how they actually behave in the real world.

AI Is WAY More Expensive Than You Think... | SolarWinds TechPod #105

Artificial intelligence isn’t just about innovation and efficiency — it comes with hidden costs. From massive data centers and rising energy consumption to layoffs, governance, and long-term business impact, the real price of AI is often ignored. Companies rush to adopt AI, but are they calculating the true cost for the environment and their bottom line?

Reality Bytes: Nexthink Drops Spark!! Big News (+ Emotions)

The full panel comes together to mark Tim Flower’s final appearance on Reality Bytes, reflecting on his impact, insight, and anchoring presence over the years. Alongside the goodbyes, the conversation turns to a landmark moment for Nexthink: the release of Spark. Framed as a pivotal shift in the capabilities of digital employee experience, Spark is explored through real-world stories and personal takes, including how it empowers employees, reduces IT friction, and redefines support.

Getting Started with Seer - Sentry's AI Debugging Agent

Seer is Sentry's AI Debugging agent that has access to all the context that Sentry pulls together from your applications. Sometimes it shows up predicting bugs before they ship to prod. Sometimes it's catching issues in prod and bringing you the fix. Seer pulls from distributed traces, logs, profiles, stack traces, errors, and your codebase, and helps you find the broken parts of your application and fix them faster.