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Understanding Generative AI and Agentic AI: A Comparative Guide

Have you ever thought why some AIs create the content and some spontaneously decide on their own? Generative AI and agentic AI are common in an AI landscape. So how are they different? In this article, the definitions will be made clear, as well as how they work, in addition to how they define our daily lives.

How Current and Potential Transformers Keep Your Power Distribution Systems Safe and Reliable

In modern power systems, the ability to measure, monitor, and control electricity safely is essential. That's where the current transformer plays a critical role. Whether you're managing energy use in a commercial building, protecting industrial machinery, or ensuring accurate billing, current transformers and their counterpart, potential transformers, are indispensable tools that keep the grid reliable and efficient.

Don't Just Monitor SLAs - Validate Them Automatically

Service level agreements (SLAs) are the contractual backbone between customers and technology vendors, outlining expected service availability, performance metrics, and remedies like service credits when service providers fail to meet agreed-upon service levels. This service agreement assures both the technical quality as well as the service quality of the services provided, and underpins the value perspective of the client.
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Status Page Aggregator: How To Stay Ahead of Outages in 2025

Outages happen, and they often catch us off guard. If your team relies on multiple status pages to track cloud infrastructure, SaaS tools, or distributed systems, staying ahead of outages is essential. It's far better to know about issues with your services or dependencies before your users do, so you can act fast and stay in control. That's where a status page aggregator like StatusGator comes in.

COREDUMP #015: Developing kid-safe tech at Gabb: what it takes and why it's so important

In today’s Coredump Session, we explore the rise of kid-safe tech with leaders from the Gabb team, creators of connected devices designed specifically for children. From designing products that prioritize child safety to integrating AI in ways that support families, this conversation unpacks the complexities of building secure, intuitive technology for the next generation. The team also shares real-world lessons on hardware partnerships, customer trust, and what it takes to innovate responsibly in the IoT space.

Incident post-mortems: the complete, blameless guide

Most companies run post-mortems like autopsies. They dissect the corpse, assign blame, and file it away. The body count keeps rising. Here's what actually works: post-mortems as learning machines. Systems thinking over finger-pointing. Patterns over pain. What you'll get: A copy-paste template, real metrics that matter, and the mindset shift that turns outages into intelligence. Who this is for: SRE leads tired of repeating incidents. Engineering managers who want learning over theater.

Frontline Reliability: Protecting User Journeys with SLOs with Shery Brauner (Razor, ex-Zalando)

What does it really take to move from firefighting incidents to building reliability at scale? In this episode of Humans of Reliability, Shery Brauner (Razor, ex-Zalando) shares her unique journey from frontend and backend engineering to leading site reliability practices. She explains why protecting the user journey is the key to effective incident management, how SLOs cut through noisy alerts, and why observability must come first.

How we saved $1.5 million per year with Cloud Cost Management

In collecting and analyzing trillions of events each day, Datadog ingests a massive amount of data. We spend substantially to process and store this data in the cloud, and teams across the organization are committed to optimizing the return on this investment. To this end, our FinOps analysts have always tracked the costs of delivering our services and identified opportunities for savings.

Datadog governance 101: From chaos to consistency

As your organization scales, managing observability resources and usage becomes increasingly important. More users and teams mean more dashboards, tags, API keys, and costs to manage. The job of keeping track of these resources and ensuring that they’re compliant can quickly grow in complexity.

Discover Infrastructure: Kubernetes & Hosts - Launch Week / Day 03

Stop debugging infrastructure issues across multiple dashboards. See how Last9's Discover Infrastructure monitors K8s pods and traditional hosts together—with resource analysis, pod-level debugging, and AI that correlates app problems to infrastructure root causes. One setup (K8s + host monitoring) → Complete infrastructure visibility that connects to your services and jobs. No more blind spots between application performance and underlying resources.