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Klaudia Under the Hood: How We Built an AI SRE That Actually Earns Trust

In reliability engineering, being ‘mostly right’ is a liability. An AI SRE that sometimes misses the root cause or gives a confident, wrong answer at 2:17 AM has no place in an enterprise cloud environment. In this context, silence is better than noise. That’s the bar Klaudia is built to clear: genuine reliability that you can trust in production. The kind of reliability that earns a place alongside your best engineers. Getting there requires more than just a capable model.

Operational excellence (OpEx) reviews: the weekly meeting that actually changes behavior

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Shawn Burke, Distinguished Engineer at Cortex, to explore what separates an operational excellence review that drives real engineering behavior from one that produces great conversation and nothing else. Shawn draws on experience from SoFi, Uber, and Microsoft to explain why these reviews so often fail—and how to build a process that actually sticks.

Wrapping up recent 2026 PostgreSQL community events | The Simple Talk Podcast

Two major PostgreSQL community events took place recently: PostgreSQL Development Conference 2026 (Vancouver, BC, Canada), and PG DATA 2026 (Chicago, IL). Pat Wright and Kellyn Gorman attended both and, in this quick-fire episode, offer their thoughts and key takeaways from the events. Recorded on-site at PASS Summit Europe in Frankfurt, Germany (June 11th, 2026).

Platform engineering unplugged: What nobody tells you about platform engineering at scale

Most platform engineering stories are told in hindsight, with the rough edges smoothed out. On June 17th, we are doing it differently. Join us for Platform Engineering Unplugged, a frank conversation with a practitioner who has navigated the real challenges of building and scaling platform engineering. What worked, what didn't, and what they would do differently. If you lead engineering teams and are thinking seriously about platform engineering, this is the session for you.

Cooldown policies - Block malicious packages at the index

Every dependency pull is a trust decision. Public registries don't vet what they serve. Cooldown policies give you a gate at the moment that matters most: when a package first enters your environment. Dan McKinney (Solutions Engineering Manager) walks through how Cloudsmith's cooldown policies work and how to configure one in under five minutes. What Dan covers.

7 Best AI Search Tools Across Slack, Google Drive, and GitHub That Flag Stale Docs

An authoritative-looking snippet can be poisonous if it's two versions behind. A Gartner CX survey found that 56 percent of users complain about outdated documentation, and a 2026 Support Ops study attributes nearly 40 percent of tickets to articles that are stale or unclear. If a deployment script changes yet the old README still ranks first in Slack, you can lose an afternoon chasing errors. Multiply that across every lapsed policy, pricing deck, or support macro, and productivity shrinks-along with audit scores and customer trust.

AI Agents Are the New Employees: The Identity & Security Crisis Enterprise IT Must Solve

As AI agents become more autonomous, enterprises face a new challenge: How do you secure a workforce that isn't human? In this episode of Agents of IT, Fran Fernandez, Zach Austin, and Ian Coppock explore the growing identity and security challenges surrounding Agentic AI. From permissions and governance to digital identities and access controls, the team breaks down what enterprise leaders need to know before deploying AI agents at scale.

How to Fix Azure Integration Errors in Minutes Instead of Days

Azure integration errors can be difficult to diagnose when messages flow across multiple services such as Logic Apps, Service Bus, Azure Functions, APIs, and external systems. Support teams often spend hours searching through logs and correlating events across services just to identify where a transaction failed.

Why Multi-Agent AI Workflows Need a Control Plane

AI is transforming how infrastructure and platform teams design, deploy, and operate systems. As organizations move from experimentation to production, a clear pattern is emerging. AI can decide what should change, but it cannot safely control how those changes are executed. This creates a gap in modern architectures. That gap is filled by a control plane. That control plane already exists in Puppet Enterprise Advanced.