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Making AI (net)work: tips for a successful AI-integrated network by Jason Gintert | AIFNL

AI in network operations has moved past the demo. In some shops it's already cutting detection time and clearing the alert noise that used to bury the engineering team. In others, a promising rollout has quietly stalled the moment it met production. That difference between the two rarely comes down to the model, it comes down to how the AI gets integrated into the network and most importantly, the team around it.

Fly Graduates: Agentic Repository Experience Lands in the JFrog Platform

The way software gets built is changing faster than at any point in the last decade, and the software supply chain has to keep up. A year ago at swampUp, we introduced JFrog Fly: the first agentic repository, serving as a fast, AI-native environment to build what a modern, agentic developer workflow could look like, unconstrained by the shape of the enterprise stack. Today, we’re bringing what we learned back home.

Shipped: Give your telemetry streams human-readable names

Telemetry streams carry the unit metrics behind every cost-per-unit number you report. Now each one can say in plain language what it measures. You can call a stream whatever you want to: “MCP tool calls” or “Checkout transactions” or “Documents processed.” Spaces, capitals, and punctuation all work, and you can change the name whenever the metric’s purpose gets clearer. The identifier the pipeline uses stays exactly where it is.

"No fix available" is different than "no plan"

Sometimes there's a vulnerability in a package you can't remove. Legacy dependencies don't always come with an easy fix. The one thing you don't do is bury it in the backlog with no dates and no reasoning attached. This video covers what a defensible response actually looks like: Your ability to show your work on unfixed vulnerabilities is more important than simply identifying them.

The Hidden Costs of Inefficient Inventory Management

When businesses look at how healthy their operations are, they often zero in on the most obvious costs: rent, salaries, and marketing. Inventory usually falls into this category too, with its costs simply seen as the price of goods and warehouse storage. But this narrow view misses a whole network of hidden expenses that come from managing inventory poorly. These less obvious costs can quietly eat into profits, stretch resources thin, and slow down growth, affecting much more than just the bottom line.

Does Your Membership Data End Up in Three Places at Once?

Ask an association administrator where the member list lives and the answer is rarely a single system. It is usually a database of some kind, plus a spreadsheet that somebody maintains for the board, plus whatever the email tool has stored, plus a payment processor holding its own version of everyone's contact details.