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What Does AI Need to Know Before You Trust It? | AI SREDo you like this personality?

AI can make decisions. But can it make the right ones across your entire IT environment? For enterprise SRE teams, trustworthy AI requires three things: operational context, institutional memory, and guardrails. Without them, autonomous action becomes a risk instead of an advantage. In our latest webinar, we explore what it takes to bring AI SRE capabilities to enterprise scale.

NOC Monitoring: What a Network Operations Center Tracks and How

NOC monitoring decides how fast a network problem turns into a fix. If your NOC watches the wrong layers, it misses the fault. If it alerts on everything, the real fault gets buried. According to Uptime Institute's Annual Outage Analysis 2026, 57% of operators said their most recent major outage cost more than $100,000. Most teams already collect plenty of data through network monitoring. The hard part is turning that data into a short queue of alerts that the right person acts on.

Fixing distrusted InCommon certificates with ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

Starting Tuesday, October 27, a lot of university websites will open in Chrome to this. Chrome is distrusting a root certificate, emSign ECC Root CA - G3, after eMudhra generated CA keys as small as 4. Every InCommon certificate issued from eMudhra’s ECC chain since April chains to that root.

7 weak points in your delivery model to fix before your next audit or outage

An auditor asking for evidence of your deployment process and an incident review asking what went wrong are asking about the same things. The difference is timing. One catches the weak point before it costs you anything. The other catches it in the middle of an outage, with a customer on the phone.

Microsoft Offers 60,000 Employees Buyouts. Here's the AI Problem.

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees—more than a quarter of its workforce—while investing billions into AI infrastructure. But here's the bigger question: What happens when experienced engineers leave and AI-generated code keeps accelerating? AI can write code faster than ever. But deploying it safely, securely, and at scale? That's becoming the real bottleneck. Is Microsoft funding AI with headcount instead of efficiency?

The Migration Takes 2 Weeks. Deciding to Do It Takes 6 Months. (Webinar Replay)

Replay and recap of our October 20 live session: why the decision to migrate takes longer than the migration itself, the five human blockers behind it, two customer migrations, and three ways to cut decision time. Chapters, timestamps and key takeaways. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2023-46604: DripDropper Exploit Explained

When a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability is published, the expectation is that affected software gets patched within days. When it involves an open-source broker that processes business-critical transactions in enterprise environments, the expectation is that the security teams responsible for those brokers treat it as an emergency. “The attacks exploit a maximum-severity security flaw in Apache.

Monitor Oracle AI Database across clouds with Datadog

Organizations can use Oracle AI Database@AWS, Oracle AI Database@Azure, and Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud to run Oracle databases co-located with the cloud applications they support rather than managing the databases on premises. However, running applications in a cloud provider’s environment while hosting databases on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can lead to visibility gaps. When application performance degrades, identifying the source of the problem can be difficult.