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"Crown Jewels In, Crown Jewels Out" - The Hidden Risk of AI

How do you secure data in the age of Agentic AI? In this episode of ShipTalk, Dewan Ahmed sits down with Devan Shah, Chief Architect of Data Security at IBM, to explore the massive shift from traditional DevOps to AI-infused software delivery. Devan shares his journey from being a chef to leading an "army" of 450+ developers at IBM. They dive deep into the technical bedrock of IBM’s "OnePipeline" (built on Tekton and Argo CD), the rise of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), and the architectural principles required to ship AI features without compromising security or compliance.

SRE Report: AI optimism and the economics of effort

For eight years, the survey behind the SRE Report has used a consistent methodology. That consistency allows us to track how reliability work evolves over time, rather than relying on snapshots. One of the most stable questions in the survey asks respondents to estimate how much of their work, on average, is spent on toil. Between 2020 and 2024, responses showed a gradual decline in reported toil.

Build, buy, or open source? Understanding your options with Grafana's AI-powered observability

Some questions in engineering never go away. Here’s one that every team eventually confronts: Do we roll up our sleeves and build the tooling ourselves, or do we buy something built for us? It’s a choice that has the power to speed teams up or hold them back. With the rise of AI-powered observability, this familiar software dilemma has re-emerged with higher stakes and faster-moving technology.

What problem is agentic AI trying to solve?

Agentic AI isn’t limited to security operations. It’s already improving hospitals, financial systems, and service industries by reducing overload and filling skill gaps. Here’s the problem it was actually built to solve. Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

AI Vendor Lock-In: How AI Is Creating A New Dependency Problem

Like most SaaS companies, you’re under pressure to ship AI-powered features faster, smarter, and at scale. For many teams, that pressure leads to relying on external AI platforms, managed models, and third-party APIs instead of building everything from scratch in-house. At first, it feels like a win. Your team ships an AI-powered feature in weeks instead of months. No GPU clusters to manage. No models to train. No infrastructure to babysit.

Beyond boundaries: How global collaboration defines AI in 2026

As we move through 2026, the global conversation around AI is shifting from simple adoption to a deeper focus on true openness and sovereignty. In this session from Civo Navigate India 2025, OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock explores the evolving state of AI openness and shares a significant milestone: India is now the world’s number one open-source contributing community.

Agentic AI in DevOps: The Architect's Guide to Autonomous Infrastructure | Harness Blog

For the last decade, the holy grail of DevOps has been Automation. We spent years writing Bash scripts to move files, Terraform to provision servers, and Ansible to configure them. And for a while, it felt like magic. But any seasoned engineer knows the dirty secret of automation: it is brittle. Automation is deterministic. It only does exactly what you tell it to do. It has no brain. It cannot reason.

AI NetOps: How AI and Machine Learning Transform Network Operations

AI is changing network operations (NetOps) from static automation into adaptive, data-driven systems that can summarize incidents, retrieve knowledge, and guide remediation with human oversight. In this talk, Phil Gervasi breaks down what “AI for NetOps” really means in practice, including the difference between classical ML and large language models (LLMs), why data pipelines matter more than model tuning, and how patterns like RAG (retrieval augmented generation), text-to-SQL, and agentic workflows turn raw telemetry into decisions.