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Top Tips: Staying productive during a slow work week

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and share ways to stay ahead. This week, we’re looking at what you can when you’re having a slow-paced, less hectic workweek. We’ve all been there at intermittent intervals of our jobs: You check into the office right after the weekend only to realize you’re having one of those slow, relatively low-pressure weeks. So what do you do to stay productive?

How AI agents help teams deliver better digital experiences

The moment your page slows down, two clocks start. One is yours: time to alert, time to investigate, time to fix. The other belongs to the user staring at the slow page. Yours is measured in minutes. Theirs runs out in seconds. That gap is what AI agents close. Zia Agents in OpManager Nexus detects an issue, works out the cause, and runs the fix on its own, often before your users feel a thing. This blog looks at how that changes the experience you deliver.

7 Layers of Agent Security (1 in 6 repos has leaked credentials)

I scanned 10,705 public GitHub repos for leaked credentials. After removing obvious placeholders, 3,543 still had something that looked like a key, and 1,680 held almost 7,000 credentials in recognizable formats like Stripe keys. If you're new to coding with agents (or you've been a dev for decades), this is the setup I'd want you to have before you ship anything public.

Managing Hybrid Infrastructure and Multicloud Without the Overhead

Building and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure is an increasingly common requirement for engineering teams. Some companies want to cut hyperscaler costs. Others have business continuity requirements that mean spreading infrastructure across several providers. Either way, more teams are taking hybrid cloud management into their own hands.

Event Intelligence and the Diagnosis Gap: When Logs Are the Only Witness

✓ operational truth Incident diagnosis is now the longest phase of resolution because evidence is fragmented, expertise sits with a few people, and cloud and SaaS estates no longer allow engineers to log in and look. Event Intelligence closes the gap by correlating events into a single probable cause, mining logs automatically, and arriving at the incident with a hypothesis already formed.

AI Finds and Fixes Security Vulnerabilities | Harness Demo

What if AI could find a security vulnerability, determine whether it actually matters, write the fix, validate it, and open a pull request for review? In this demo, see how Harness Security Testing Agents work together to move from vulnerability detection to a verified fix with an audit trail along the way. The system uses three agents: Harness can analyze where vulnerabilities exist in your environment, determine whether they’re actually reachable, prioritize what needs to be fixed, and automatically create remediation pull requests.

Searching Sentry Logs with Regex

We use Sentry's new Regex search for Logs to hunt for non-obvious bugs in our app. What do you do when traces show that Postgres jobs are backing up? Logs are trace-connected, so by looking at one of the affected traces, we can see all of the logs on that trace. In there, we can see Postgres has logged that it acquired a lock only after a long wait. Using regex, we can find all of these logs that describe acquiring a lock after a 10-second-plus wait. That narrows our search from thousands or hundreds of logs down to about a dozen.

Log in, look around, level up: Building a trial people want to explore

We turned the mic around for this episode, with Zoe Hawkins interviewing Adam White and Jake Lee about Sumo Logic’s redesigned free trial. The new 14-day sandbox comes preloaded with realistic data feeds, Cloud SIEM, and our AI agents, so no one has to build collectors or open tickets before finding out whether the platform fits. Adam and Jake walk through the guided “choose your own adventure” paths, the broad, open-ended questions that bring out the best in Mobot, and how the trial will keep pace with new releases.