Performance Resources

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

· 3,433 Views · 2 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

· 2,248 Views

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

· 4,878 Views · 1 Like

Why MCP Servers Lose Session State Behind Load Balancers

Moving an MCP server behind a load balancer changes how sessions behave, and can break long-running tool calls without obvious errors.

July 22, 2026

by Tanushree Das

· 5,441 Views · 2 Likes

React 19 Killed Half My Performance Optimization Code, and I'm Grateful

React 19's compiler eliminated most of my useMemo and useCallback code. Table virtualization, optimistic updates, and route splitting still need manual attention.

July 22, 2026

by Rohit G

· 5,822 Views · 1 Like

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

· 4,034 Views · 1 Like

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

· 2,652 Views · 3 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

· 36,432 Views · 2 Likes

Cloud Cost Optimization Was Hard; AI Cost Optimization Will Be Worse.

Cloud cost optimization was hard because cloud made infrastructure consumption easy; AI cost optimization will be worse because AI makes decision consumption easy.

July 15, 2026

by Raghava Dittakavi

CORE

· 5,553 Views · 3 Likes

Debugging and Performance Tuning in Pega Using PAL, Tracer, and Clipboard

Use PAL to find where time and memory go, Tracer to see which rule caused it, and Clipboard to confirm the state in that order, every time.

July 15, 2026

by Anil guntupalli

· 2,992 Views

Does 100% Code Coverage Mean Tested?

Learn why 100% code coverage doesn't guarantee software quality, and how behavior coverage and mutation testing provide more meaningful testing insights.

July 15, 2026

by Stelios Manioudakis

CORE

· 4,122 Views · 1 Like

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

· 3,251 Views · 1 Like

Differential Flamegraphs in Java in Jeffrey Microscope

How to set up a secondary profile and pinpoint the precise frames responsible for a performance change between two JFR recordings.

July 14, 2026

by Petr Bouda

CORE

· 2,258 Views · 1 Like

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

· 2,351 Views

Performance Testing RAG Applications: Complete Engineering Guide

In this blog post, we will see how to perform a performance test on a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application properly, covering both speed and correctness.

July 13, 2026

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 3,451 Views · 1 Like

Building Cross-Team SLO Contracts for Performance Accountability

Cross-team latency problems are accountability problems, not just profiling problems. An SLO contract is one way to solve this.

July 10, 2026

by Ujjwal Gulecha

· 3,440 Views

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

· 3,727 Views · 3 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

· 2,485 Views

AI Won't Keep You from Hitting the Scalability Wall

AI coding tools can dramatically speed up integration builds — but speed isn't the bottleneck. The real issue is the long-term ownership cost.

July 8, 2026

by Bru Woodring

· 1,955 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

· 2,176 Views · 5 Likes

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