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The Missing Runtime for Long-Running AI Agents

Enterprise AI agents need more than stronger models. They need durable execution environments that can coordinate multi-step workflows, survive failures, pause for human review and resume reliably after disconnects or delays. AI Agents Have Moved Beyond Chat Demos AI agents work beautifully in demos. A user asks a question, a large language model generates a […]

Anuj Kapoor · Aug 26, 2026
AI

CI/CD for AI-Enabled Applications: Why Traditional Deployment Pipelines Need to Evolve

Traditional CI/CD pipelines are optimized around a familiar assumption: source code changes, automated tests validate the change, a build artifact is produced, and the application is promoted through environments. AI-enabled applications complicate that model because production behavior can change even when application code does not. A new model version, feature transformation, prompt configuration, retrieval index […]

Prem Kumar Gadhanki · Aug 25, 2026
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Why “Tokenmaxxing” Was Always the Wrong Way for Developers to Measure AI Productivity

The term “tokenmaxxing” left the developer lexicon just as quickly as it arrived, and like most viral technology concepts, it means different things depending on who’s using it. In practice, the term is being applied in two ways: maximizing total token consumption as a proxy for AI adoption and effort, or optimizing output per token […]

Drew Thompson · Aug 24, 2026
Blogs

Preparing Infrastructure for the Next Phase of Agentic AI

Agentic AI is changing government infrastructure requirements, pushing agencies to rethink workflows, observability, data movement and resource prioritization before investing in new hardware.

Gretchen Stewart · Aug 24, 2026
Blogs

Why API Test Generation Is a Judgment Problem, Not a Code Generation Problem

When we started using large language models for API test generation at KushoAI, the results were impressive on the surface. Tests appeared in seconds. Coverage breadth went up. The team was excited. Then we looked more carefully at what was being produced. On one endpoint, the model generated 26 tests where a senior QA engineer […]

Abhishek Saikia · Aug 21, 2026
AI

Elevating Technical Documentation: Using Predictive AI to Standardize Visual Knowledge Bases

Every release changes documentation alongside the code. Developers depend on that documentation during implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting. A diagram becomes misleading once services are renamed or integrations change without a corresponding documentation update. Keeping documentation updated becomes increasingly difficult as repositories, products and release cycles grow. Outdated or inconsistent images eventually find their way into […]

Nazim Ghori · Aug 20, 2026
Blogs

How to Avoid Repeating the “Automate Everything” Mistake Due to AI FOMO

The DevOps community has already experienced technological extremes. You might recall the time when automation was thought of as a panacea for all possible engineering issues, and the slogan “Automate Everything” was ringing out everywhere. Over time, the industry came to an important conclusion: Automation should not become the end goal. Along with faster software […]

Alexey Golubev · Aug 20, 2026
AI

Why Self-Healing Tests Need a Deployment Gate

When an end-to-end test fails after a front-end change, the repair often looks routine. A class name changed. A button moved. A selector that used to be unique now matches two elements. A self-healing system inspects the page, proposes a new locator, reruns the test, and gets a green result. That green result is useful, […]

Suneet Malhotra · Aug 19, 2026
Blogs

What the Microservices Era Can Teach Us About AI

AI agents are not just microservices with LLMs attached. Their long-running, non-deterministic workflows demand durable execution, per-step identity, governance and observability.

Mark Fussell · Aug 19, 2026
Blogs

Is Your New DevSecOps Tooling Reducing Work Or Just Adding to It?

Security belongs in the software delivery pipeline. The harder question is where, how often and at what cost. Many pipeline teams eventually add security scanning to CI/CD, and relatively few go back afterward to measure what it actually cost the delivery process. Security coverage went up. Something else changed too, and it is rarely measured […]

Yogesh Tatwal · Aug 17, 2026
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Treat Business Workflow Changes Like Deployments

Business automation often reaches production without the release discipline applied to application code. A routing rule changes, an approval threshold moves, or an integration starts writing to a new system. The edit may happen in a visual builder instead of a repository, but its blast radius is still real: orders can duplicate, customers can receive […]

Marcelo Cedeño · Aug 14, 2026
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Production-Safe Testing: The Missing Piece in Most DevSecOps Strategies

Most DevSecOps teams invest heavily in security before deployment, yet attackers target the production environment where applications, APIs, and user behavior are constantly changing. If security validation stops before release, critical risks can remain hidden until they are exploited. The gap is more common than many organizations realize. A survey found that over 70% of […]

Dharmesh Acharya · Aug 13, 2026
Blogs

Developer’s Checklist: How to Build an FHE Application

A practical guide to building fully homomorphic encryption applications, covering architecture, noise budgets, polynomial approximations, parameter choices, SIMD packing, testing and performance optimization.

David Archer · Aug 13, 2026