Contributed Content
Stop Worshipping ‘Global Availability’: A Practical SLI/SLO Bucketing Playbook
Parthiban Rajasekaran | | alert fatigue reduction, availability metrics, bucketed SLIs, DevOps observability, engineering reliability strategy, reliability metrics, site reliability engineering, SLI SLO best practices, SRE monitoringGlobal availability hides real failures. Learn why bucketed SLIs give a truer picture of reliability—and how SRE teams can align alerts with real business impact ...
AWS Sage: Your AI Assistant’s Gateway to the Cloud
Arun Sanna | | AI cloud operations, AWS automation, cloud observability, cross-service intelligence, dependency mapping AWS, DevOps AI assistants, incident investigation AI, MCP Server, Model Context ProtocolAWS Sage is an open-source MCP server that gives AI assistants unified, intelligent access to AWS with cross-service discovery, dependency mapping, impact analysis, and automated incident investigation ...
Resilient Middleware at Scale: Using YAML and Ansible to Harden Apache, WebLogic and Tomcat
Pramod Muppala | | automation, change management, Configuration as Code, middleware stability, observability, progressive delivery, resilient middlewareTransform your middleware into a resilient powerhouse with automation, consistent configuration, and progressive delivery. Discover how to reduce downtime and increase stability across Apache, Tomcat, WLS, and more ...
Establishing DevOps for Mainframe Applications
Debashis Bhattacharyya | | CI/CD pipelines, DevOps mainframe, Endevor Git integration, enterprise devops, Jenkins mainframe, legacy application modernization, legacy modernization, mainframe automation, mainframe CI/CD, mainframe DevOps, mainframe security, Zowe CLIMainframes don’t have to block DevOps. Learn how extending CI/CD, Git, and security scanning to mainframe applications modernizes delivery without replacing mission-critical systems ...
FinOps Meets DevOps: Engineering Cost Ownership in 2026
Muhammad Yawar Malik | | AWS costs, CI/CD cost checks, cloud cost management, cloud spend optimization, cost as code, cost per transaction, developer accountability, devops, engineering cost ownership, FinOps, FinOps 2026, infrastructure costsIn 2026, cloud cost overruns stop being finance’s problem and become an engineering responsibility. Here’s how treating cost as code finally makes FinOps work ...
Building a GenAI-RAG Runbooks-Based ChatOps Assistant in AWS Bedrock With MS Teams Integration for Incident Management
Karthikeyan Rajamani | | AI incident management, AI troubleshooting assistant, AI-powered runbooks, AI-powered SRE tools, ChatOps incident management, DevOps GenAI, enterprise ChatOps, GenAI DevOps architecture, GenAI incident response, multilingual incident response, reduce MTTR, retrieval augmented generation AWS, SRE automation, SRE runbooks automation, vector database runbooksLearn how AWS Bedrock, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and ChatOps in Microsoft Teams transform incident response by turning fragmented runbooks into a GenAI-powered assistant that reduces MTTR and improves SRE efficiency ...
Your AI Agents Have a Blind Spot: What DevOps Teams Need to Know About Cross-LLM Security
Arun Sanna | | AI agents, AI infrastructure, Behavioral Monitoring, Cross-LLM Detection, Cybersecurity, devops, DevOps pipelines, incident management, Model-Aware Detection, Multi-LLM Environments, security best practices, Security Gaps, supply chain security, threat detection, vulnerability managementExplore the challenges of AI agents in DevOps pipelines, highlighting the importance of model-aware detection to improve security and reduce vulnerabilities ...
(Almost) Seven Signs That Your JavaScript Project is Legacy
Artem Barmin | | Code Assessment, code quality, Component Architecture, Engineering Practices., ES6 Syntax, incident management, jQuery Usage, Legacy JavaScript, Modern JavaScript, Outdated Dependencies, Runbooks, software development, software modernization, testing strategy, web developmentLearn how to identify legacy JavaScript projects by examining outdated practices, architectural choices, and testing strategies that can hinder development ...
Security Controls That Slow Teams Are Usually Poorly Designed
Venkata Nedunoori | | Approval Processes, automation, continuous change, devops, Friction Reduction, Gates vs. Guardrails, Human Oversight, incident management, Metrics for Success, operational efficiency, Policy Compliance., risk management, Security Controls, Security Workflow, Trust in SecurityDiscover strategies to enhance security controls in DevOps, emphasizing the shift from gates to guardrails and the importance of designing around real workflows ...
DevSecOps In Digital Banking: Balancing Fast Releases With Regulatory Compliance
In the digital banking sector, fast releases of new features and security patches have become the norm. Unfortunately, many institutions lack the organization or the processes necessary to make the speed of ...
Lessons from 2025: The Year “Agent Mitigation” Became a Thing
Abigail Wall | | Agent Mitigation, AI agents, AI Best Practices, AI security, cloud infrastructure, Continuous Evaluation, Data Exfiltration, Environment Orchestration, Incident Analysis, incident management, incident response, Mitigation Strategies., Public APIs, reliability engineering, risk management, Security ControlsExplore the emergence of agent mitigation as a formal discipline in response to 2025's AI failures, highlighting best practices for secure and reliable AI agent deployment ...
Part 3: The Zero-Touch Infrastructure: Architecting Systems That Fix Themselves
Muhammad Yawar Malik | | AI integration, Automated Resolution, Autonomous SRE, Cross-Organization Learning, Human Oversight, incident management, Incident Prevention, infrastructure automation, operational efficiency, performance metrics, Predictive Architecture, Reasoning Agents, self-healing systems, SRE tools, system reliabilityPart 3: Discover how autonomous SRE transforms incident management and system reliability, enabling self-healing systems that reduce reliance on human intervention ...
