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From Trough to Traction: 10 Real-World Lessons in Cloud and AI Efficiency

Jan 23, 2026 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
When CloudZero CTO Erik Peterson joined the SourceForge podcast in January 2026, he didn’t just talk about cloud costs. He reframed them as a launchpad for innovation, survival, and competitive advantage. Whether he was describing the “trough of lost innovation,” the “freemium tax,” or why efficiency is the next frontier of engineering culture, Erik’s expert insights go beyond FinOps hygiene.
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solarwinds

Agentic AI Essentials: Adoption Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Jan 23, 2026 By Krishna Sai In SolarWinds
In the last article in this series, we explored how IT professionals and leaders can cut through the hype surrounding agentic AI and gain a deeper understanding of what the technology actually offers. Now, we turn to the practical side: how to integrate it effectively. Let’s explore the challenges and outline strategies that organizations of all sizes can use to adopt agentic AI with confidence.
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honeycomb

AI in Production Is Growing Faster Than We Can Trust it

Jan 23, 2026 By Fahim Zaman In Honeycomb
Enterprise software has moved past the generative AI testing phase. Businesses with millions of daily users or workloads are no longer just prototyping LLMs in a vacuum. They’re directly wiring agentic efficiency into product interfaces and infrastructure to stay competitive. This wave is often compared to the spread of microservices in the past, but we aren’t just adding new dependencies and complexity.
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ilert

Engineering reliable AI agents: The prompt structure guide

Jan 23, 2026 By Tim Gühnemann In iLert
The difference between an AI assistant that "almost" works and one that consistently delivers high-value results is rarely a matter of raw model capability. Instead, the bottleneck is typically the quality and structure of the instructions provided. For DevOps and SRE teams building automated workflows, "magical prompt tricks" are no substitute for a repeatable, engineered structure.
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iOPEX

The Invisible Million Dollars and How AI Prevents Revenue Leakage

Jan 23, 2026 By Dharmesh Mistry , Chief Revenue Officer In iOPEX
We have spent the last decade engineering our organizations for velocity. We optimized for "Land and Expand." We celebrated bookings. We built commercial architectures designed to intake revenue faster than we could operationalize it. In that era, operational friction was accepted as the cost of doing business. That era is over. The mandate has shifted from growth at all costs to efficient growth.
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Feature Friday: Personalized Context in One Click. New Cortex MCP My Workspace

Jan 23, 2026 By Cortex | Internal Developer Portal In Cortex
Stop digging through tabs and explaining your role to your tools. In this Feature Friday, we’re unveiling 'My Workspace' for the Cortex MCP, designed to give you instant, personalized identity the moment you start your day. Before today, you had to manually fetch data from Jira, GitHub, and internal docs just to figure out your priorities. Now, you can simply ask, "What should I work on this week?" and get a parallel, high-speed pull of your entire ecosystem.
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