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Why Your Internet Is Slow: Is It Your Network, ISP, or Your Machine?

Someone on your team says "the Internet is slow." Twenty minutes later, IT finds out the Internet was never the problem. Maybe it was a laptop with a full RAM disk. Maybe it was an ISP outage two towns over that had nothing to do with your office. Misdiagnosing slow Internet wastes time. It sends you down the wrong fix path, like rebooting a router when the real issue is sitting on someone's desktop.

How I Support Humans in the AI Era

When our company pushed everyone to start using AI tools, I thought about what it would mean for my team. As a remote company, we are already challenged by the lack of organic human connection. Every connection is planned and takes effort, and now, AI adds another layer. People now spend part of their day collaborating with a tool rather than with a person, which can take away from the time we spend learning from each other.

Kubernetes AI SRE Agent Finds a Crash Loop Nobody Asked About: AURA

You ask for a routine health check and expect a clean baseline. What came back was a pod that had restarted 788 times, unrelated to the question. AURA is connected to a Kubernetes cluster and to Prometheus through read-only MCP servers, running as one coordinator with two specialized workers. The prompt is one sentence: check the health of the cluster, and confirm whether all the pods are running. What comes back is not a baseline. AURA names the state as CrashLoopBackOff and attaches the restart count to it.

No Custom Adapter: AI SRE Agent AURA Debugs Product Catalog in Dash0

The platform shows you which service is failing and which paths it touches, and stops there. Point AURA at the same telemetry and the cause comes back too. Dash0 shows the product catalog service in a failed state across the selected window, with errors on the path from the frontend service.

Data Center: More or Less | SolarWinds TechPod

In this episode, Sean and Crystal explore the complex and rapidly evolving landscape of AI, data center impacts, regulation challenges, and societal implications. They discuss the urgency of establishing standards and the lessons from historical industrial revolutions to navigate AI's future responsibly.

Better context, smarter testing: How to give your AI coding agent direct access to k6 docs

As testing workflows become more AI-assisted, fast access to accurate documentation matters more than ever. Whether you're writing a new load test, troubleshooting an issue, or having an AI agent generate a script for you, you need reliable guidance that keeps pace with the way you work. But most documentation still lives in a browser. Every time you or your agent needs to verify an API or look up a best practice, you're forced to leave your terminal or editor and interrupt your workflow.

What an AI SRE agent actually finds when you point it at a broken Kubernetes cluster

‍ Most of the AI features that shipped into observability tools this year summarize alerts. You get a paragraph that restates the dashboard you were already looking at, and the agent never reads the cluster itself, because giving it cluster access is a security conversation nobody wanted to start. This walkthrough starts it.

Builder in the loop: what production agents were missing before AURA

Builder in the loop is a Mezmo interview series with the engineers, product leaders, and operators shaping AURA. Each installment looks past the product layer to explore the decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons involved in building agents for real production work. This installment features Mike Shearer, the engineer who built AURA and, until recently, its only developer. AI agents are easy to believe in when the task is small.

What is going wrong with AI coding? Live Laugh Logs ep. 4

Welcome to Episode 4 of Live Laugh Logs, the podcast from the Coralogix Developer Relations team. This week, Chris Cooney joins Annie to share five key DevOps skills that have become even more important in the age of agentic code development, and gives you five key actions you can do today to start levelling up these skills. Subscribe to our channel for more insights into observability and AI.