Monitoring and Observability Resources for Engineers

I Built a RAG Agent on Azure AI Foundry in an Afternoon. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

Azure AI Foundry turns RAG setup from a week of manual plumbing into an afternoon of configuration — but access control, security, and cost planning are still on you.

July 30, 2026

by Balaji Venkatasubramaniyar

CORE

· 2,334 Views · 2 Likes

Coordinating AI Agents With AWS SQS: A Practical Queue-Based Architecture

AWS SQS helps multi-agent AI workflows handle retries, duplicates, and repeated failures with queues, idempotency, and DLQs.

July 30, 2026

by Lucas Yoon

· 2,865 Views · 4 Likes

AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure

A practical framework for graduated autonomy in self-healing infrastructure, covering three remediation tiers and policy-driven blast-radius controls for cloud SRE teams.

July 29, 2026

by Shraddhaben Gajjar

· 3,627 Views · 3 Likes

OpenTelemetry's OpAMP Potential Far Beyond Supporting Collectors

A look at the Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) that has been created by the CNCF OpenTelemetry project and how it could deliver beyond OTel's needs.

July 27, 2026

by Phil Wilkins

· 2,333 Views · 1 Like

The Rise of Agentic SRE: Humans, Agents, and Reliability

Agentic SRE speeds up incident response, but it also requires clear guardrails, strong observability, and human oversight.

July 23, 2026

by Neel Shah

· 5,110 Views · 2 Likes

Agent Sprawl Is Your Next Production Incident: An SRE Response to Datadog's State of AI Engineering 2026

Datadog published the State of AI Engineering 2026 report. Read it. It's the most comprehensive look at AI in production available now.

July 20, 2026

by AJAY DEVINENI

· 4,237 Views · 2 Likes

7 Essential Guardrails for Building AI SRE Agents

AI agents can take over the first minutes of incident response, but only with the right boundaries. Seven guardrails that keep an SRE agent from becoming the outage.

July 20, 2026

by Akhilesh Rao Meesala

· 2,829 Views · 4 Likes

Observability for AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: When Your System Can't Tell You Why It Did That

Agent systems discard the reasoning behind decisions. Capture workflow IDs, semantic logs, and prompt context before production deployment.

July 17, 2026

by Pruthvi Raj Seknametla

· 36,535 Views · 3 Likes

Most Automation Failures Aren’t Bugs — They’re Boundary Problems

Most failures aren’t bugs — they’re broken assumptions between systems. Focus on boundaries, not just code, to debug faster.

July 16, 2026

by Gayathri Bolineni

· 3,320 Views · 5 Likes

Scaling Teams, Scaling Systems: Unlocking Developer Productivity With Platform Engineering

Platform engineering scales teams and systems, streamlines workflows, and reduces friction—driving faster delivery, collaboration, and sustainable growth.

July 14, 2026

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 3,411 Views · 2 Likes

AWS Glue ETL Design Principles for Production PySpark Pipelines

Learn eight AWS Glue ETL design principles for building production PySpark pipelines that are maintainable, scalable, observable, and cost-efficient.

July 14, 2026

by Janani Annur Thiruvengadam

CORE

· 3,820 Views · 3 Likes

Building Evaluation, Cost Governance, and Observability for a Multi-Agent System in Microsoft Foundry

This article walks through building a production-ready multi-agent AI system using Microsoft's AI stack, focusing on the operational capabilities.

July 13, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 5,152 Views · 2 Likes

Service Industry Evolution: Beyond 99.9% Uptime With Evolving Technology

Learn how AI, observability, predictive maintenance, and resilience are helping service organizations move beyond reactive operations and improve uptime.

July 10, 2026

by Abhishek Sharma

· 3,807 Views · 4 Likes

From Bash Script to Operational Triage: What Eight Months of Kubernetes Debugging Taught Me

Finding Kubernetes failures is easy. Knowing where to start is the hard part. Here's what eight months of building taught me.

July 9, 2026

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 2,531 Views · 1 Like

Azure Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric: An Honest Guide to When to Use What

Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric overlap, but they're built for different priorities. Databricks for data engineering, ML, open-source, and Spark workloads.

July 9, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 5,064 Views · 2 Likes

Add Observability to Your React Native Application in 5 Minutes

A five-minute walkthrough for adding logs, traces, and error monitoring to a React Native iOS app using LaunchDarkly's Observability SDK, shown on a simple counter app.

July 6, 2026

by Alexis Roberson

· 2,580 Views · 6 Likes

Azure Databricks for Scalable MLOps and Feature Engineering With Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow

A practical guide to feature engineering at scale with Azure Databricks, covering distributed data processing with Spark and reliable storage with Delta Lake.

July 6, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 6,277 Views · 2 Likes

Building an AI Agent That Responds to Real-Time Events With AWS Bedrock, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3

Build an AI agent that processes real-time events with Amazon Bedrock and a serverless AWS architecture powered by Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3.

July 3, 2026

by Jubin Soni, FBCS

CORE

· 7,075 Views · 2 Likes

Beyond Static Thresholds: Building Self-Healing Systems via Context-Aware Control Loops

Static thresholds fail in complex distributed systems. This article introduces a context-aware control loop architecture to isolate failures and automate recovery.

June 29, 2026

by Darshan Botadra

· 1,901 Views · 1 Like

Selective Deployment in Azure Data Factory: A Practical Blueprint for Safer CI/CD

Implement selective deployment in Azure Data Factory to safely promote individual features without deploying the entire factory state

June 26, 2026

by Sauhard Bhatt

· 2,457 Views · 3 Likes

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