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If your enterprise is failing at AI, it isn’t because you picked the wrong tools. You're failing because you're trying to layer AI on top of legacy systems without changing anything underneath.

Jim Rose and Rob Zuber have been working together since 2011. By now they can plan a quarter with hand signals. But this episode of Peer Review isn't about how well they know each other. It's about what they're still figuring out. CircleCI's CEO and CTO sit down to talk about what they've always believed about software delivery (it's about outcomes, not craft), how the pace of change has forced them back into the trenches of actually building, and what it means to lead a technical organization when the state of the art is shifting faster than any pitch deck can keep up with.

Seven years of institutional knowledge meets a fresh outside perspective in this episode of Peer Review. June Ko is CircleCI's Chief Legal Officer. Judson Griffin is the Chief Revenue Officer. They cover what tenure without complacency actually looks like, why boomerang hires keep happening across every region and role, and what it means to be in the middle of a market moment most people won't recognize until it's already passed. Judson's advice: get in front of the rocket and hold on. June's take: being uncomfortable is the new normal, so you might as well get good at it.

Last year was the year of AI code generation. This year is everything that comes after: validation, quality, and making sure what gets built actually ships. Nobody's better positioned to talk about that than CircleCI, and in this episode of Peer Review, CFO Blake Buisson and CMO Chitra Balasubramanian dig into what that moment means for the company and the people building it.

Steve Flanders (Senior Director of Engineering, Splunk) makes the case that AI can't save an observability stack that never agreed on a standard. Mix formats across metrics and logs, and AI stops correlating and starts guessing, which means you either make the wrong call or miss the answer you actually needed. OpenTelemetry is one fix, but Prometheus and Fluentd work too. The standard matters more than which one you pick.

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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.

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NinjaOne Field CTO Jeff Hunter demonstrates how to set up a PXE server, or Preboot Execution Environment server, by configuring Windows Deployment Services on a Windows server. This gives teams a way to boot into WinPE without requiring a USB drive, and works more efficiently at scale. Chapters.

One integration token, one config file, no code. AURA routes the question to a runbook-reader worker, queries Notion, and answers from what your team wrote.