Production failures don't announce themselves cleanly. They arrive at 2 AM, buried inside 40 million log lines, spread across a dozen microservices, and disguised as something that looks entirely unrelated to the actual root cause. For years, engineering teams absorbed this pain through process: runbooks, on-call rotations, dashboards, and a deep institutional knowledge that lived in the heads of their most senior engineers.
Over the last year, one theme has consistently emerged in conversations with customers: organizations want to move faster, but not at the cost of the operational stability their business depends on. Whether the discussion is about modernization initiatives, automation programs, AI adoption, or platform upgrades, the underlying challenge is often the same. IT leaders are under pressure to deliver innovation while maintaining stability.
The breakthroughs in AI today aren’t just coming from bigger datasets and more compute; Reinforcement Learning (RL) has quietly become one of the most powerful forces in modern AI development. RL is teaching models to reason and self-correct, enabling capabilities that make AGI feel less like science fiction and more like an inevitable future.
AI’s ability to write code made huge strides over the past year. Today, coding agents aren’t just assisting developers; they are winning the "coding race" by orders of magnitude and fundamentally changing the way engineers work.
The way we build, ship, and run software is being reshaped by AI. In this fireside chat, Yanbing Li (CPO, Datadog) and Tom Occhino (CPO, Vercel) will discuss their perspectives on the impact AI is having across the industry and what it means for teams navigating this shift today.
AI coding assistants are rapidly evolving from passive copilots into active, agentic collaborators capable of planning, executing, and iterating on complex software tasks. This shift has huge ramifications onthe software development lifecycle (SDLC), developer productivity, and even the structure of engineering teams.
Managing IT assets smoothly is not an easy task. Organizations depend more on technology to execute their operations these days. Hence, the requirement for effective IT Asset Management (ITAM) has grown considerably. However, beyond merely managing these assets, ensuring compliance with relevant ITAM regulations and standards matters just as much. And, in this race to keep up with changing regulations, you are not alone. Many organizations face the same challenge.
In this video, discover why a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is considered the heart of IT Service Management (ITSM). Learn how a CMDB helps IT teams understand dependencies, assess change impact, accelerate incident resolution, and build a reliable foundation for service management processes.