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The MetricFire MCP Server | AI-Powered Monitoring

Monitor your infrastructure using natural language with the new MetricFire Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. In this video, you'll learn how to connect the MetricFire MCP Server to AI assistants like GitHub Copilot and use simple prompts to search metrics, visualize data, create alerts, and manage your monitoring environment—without writing API calls. In this video, you'll learn how to.

Paste a Slack Bug Report into an AI SRE Agent: AURA Finds the Cause

A coworker says checkout is broken and nothing else. That is the whole prompt. AURA reads the live logs and comes back with the payment service. Normally a message like this is the start of guessing at a service and opening dashboards until something looks wrong. Here it is the entire input: no service named, no error string, no time range.

Toil Reduction Outside the Data Center: Lessons From the Clinical Front Office

Ask an operations team where the week went, and you'll usually get a list of things that shouldn't have needed a person. Access requests provisioned by hand. A disk cleared for the ninth time this quarter. Certificates rotated one at a time because the renewal script was scoped, estimated, and never finished. None of it is difficult, and all of it is necessary. And at the end of the quarter there's nothing to point at, because the work left no trace beyond the absence of an outage.

How AI-Powered College Quiz Tools Are Changing the Way Students Choose Their Path

Choosing a college major or a career direction used to feel like guesswork for most students. You would talk to a school counselor for fifteen minutes, take a personality test from a textbook, or simply pick whatever your parents or friends suggested. Today, that process looks very different. Many students now start their search with a college quiz match, an online tool that asks a series of questions about interests, strengths, and goals, then suggests majors, career paths, or even specific schools that fit the answers.

Skills as Guardrails: Contributing to Apache Kafka with AI, Without Knowing Every Module

Let me start with something most Kafka contributors think but rarely say out loud: nobody understands all of Kafka. I'm not a core committer and have only contributed a few times, but those contributions I have made have been in part thanks to using coding assistants. There are some issues with this approach though, the Apache Kafka project is huge. It's split into many parts: the core, the server, the client libraries, the streams engine, the storage layer, the consensus code, and more.

What your AI SRE can't see (and what you can do about it)

AI SRE is having a moment. The category pulled in massive funding rounds over the last two years, Gartner published its first market guide, and vendors are promising everything from 90% faster resolution to fully autonomous incident response. If you run an engineering organization, someone has probably pitched you an AI SRE in the last quarter. And let’s be honest: faster triage, less alert fatigue, and automated frontline response are wins for understaffed teams.

Building trusted agentic AI in financial services: From data to autonomous action

As financial institutions move from AI experimentation to autonomous operations, trusted context, governance, and observability become the foundation for enterprise-scale Agentic AI. Artificial intelligence in financial services is entering a new era. Historically, financial services companies have focused on deploying generative AI to improve productivity, enhance customer experiences, accelerate software development, and streamline operations.

Are AI Coding Agents the New CI Bottleneck?

AI coding agents are moving the software bottleneck from writing code to validating it. Here’s what that means for CI infrastructure, capacity planning, and software quality. This topic is explored in more detail in “CI Can’t Keep Up With AI,” an episode of Uplink, where Aditya “JP” Jayaprakash, Co-founder and CEO of Blacksmith, discusses how AI coding agents are reshaping CI and software delivery. Table of Contents.