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Over the past few months, we’ve been making the Kentik platform easier to use and more actionable, with AI increasingly at the center of how teams interact with it. AI Advisor sits near the middle of a lot of that progress, but this is not only an AI story.

Your developers are buried under tickets for environments, pipelines, and infra tweaks, while a small platform team tries to keep up. That is not developer self-service. That is managed frustration. If 200 developers depend on five platform engineers for every change, you do not have a platform; you have a bottleneck. Velocity drops, burnout rises, and shadow tooling appears. Developer self-service fixes this, but only when it is treated as a product, not a portal skin.

Self-service infrastructure replaces ticket queues with controlled, automated workflows so developers can get what they need safely and on demand. Policy-as-code, standardized templates, and an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) provide guardrails that maintain security, compliance, and cost control. You can demonstrate ROI in 90 days by starting with a single golden path and measuring adoption, speed, and policy outcomes. If platform teams are buried in tickets, they are not operating a control plane.

Apache Kafka partition count isn't just a number—it defines parallelism, ordering, and operational complexity. Learn the formula to balance throughput requirements with maintenance costs, avoid common anti-patterns, and find your 'Goldilocks' number for production-ready performance.

In 2026, I think it’s safe to say that most mobile devices in enterprise organizations aren’t purchased just for their ability to make calls. And for millions of employees, especially frontline workers, their primary device isn’t even a laptop anymore - it’s a smartphone or tablet. Yet, mobile device insights have largely remained a blind spot for IT.

TL;DR: Customer Zero proves a unified observability model—ingest → detect → investigate → automate response—on a single platform for faster, end-to-end operations.

When users complain that an app or website is slow, the first question is always the same: Is it the network or the application? HTTP monitoring gives you the answer. Network metrics like latency and packet loss tell you what's happening on the wire. But they don't tell you whether users are actually feeling the impact. HTTP monitoring closes that gap.

One space character, one broken backup. See how Aiven’s engineering team traced an OpenSearch k-NN bug to its source and implemented a lasting fix. Backing up your OpenSearch indexes via the Snapshot process is vital for disaster recovery, allowing you to restore the indexed data, cluster configuration and state if something goes wrong.

Three months ago, a CIO told me her organization had “already deployed agents.” Her endpoint team assumed she meant the telemetry clients on every managed laptop. Her service desk thought she meant AI chatbots. Meanwhile, her security architect heard “autonomous decision-making.” They were all right and all talking past each other. This is the agent confusion problem.

PHP has evolved over the years and has become a lot more reliable, faster and refined. And with the release of PHP 8, which contained many features (named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expressions, the null safe operator (?->) etc) and optimizations (JIT compiler), PHP has become more faster and cleaner. There are many more improvements and interesting features in the later versions of PHP 8. The 4 features I now rely on and wish PHP had introduced much earlier.