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Platform engineering metrics: What to measure and what to ignore

Platform engineering teams have access to hundreds of metrics, yet over 40% of platform initiatives cannot demonstrate measurable value within the first year. Teams that cannot quantify their impact fail to obtain executive sponsorship, risk being defunded, and ultimately, face deprecation. To accurately calculate a platform’s ROI, platform engineering teams need to differentiate between signals that measure platform effectiveness and those that should be used solely for investigative purposes.

IT Cost Reduction Strategies: A CTO & CFO Guide (2026)

Quick answer: IT cost reduction strategies target waste across three categories — cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and software licensing — without cutting the investments that drive business value. The highest-impact tactics are auditing unused SaaS licenses, rightsizing overprovisioned cloud resources, automating non-production environment shutdowns, extending commitment coverage on stable workloads, and building cost accountability into engineering workflows.

7 AI productivity lessons from the CTO of Superhuman

Most companies have built AI into their product by now, and many consider it the central feature of what they’re building. But plenty of those same companies are still figuring out how to get their own engineering teams to actually use AI tools day to day. When Loïc Houssier joined Superhuman as CTO in early 2025, his team was in that exact spot. The company had been shipping AI email features for years, but internal adoption of AI dev tools was still early.

Export env0 Log Data to SIEM and Monitoring Platforms [2026]

Every time Terraform runs a plan, every time an environment is deployed, every time a variable is changed, env zero generates a record. env zero log forwarding sends that record to your existing SIEM or observability platform automatically. For most teams without it configured, that record lives inside env zero and nowhere else.

Komodor Provides Autonomous AI SRE Troubleshooting for ClusterAPI

Cluster API (CAPI) is transforming how organizations deploy and manage fleets of Kubernetes clusters by introducing declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to automate cluster provisioning and lifecycle management. While CAPI excels at creating consistent and repeatable cluster deployments across different infrastructure providers, operating it at a massive scale introduces unique day-to-day challenges.

SAS Enhances Security and Compliance with the JFrog Platform

This video features Brett Smith, a distinguished software developer at SAS Institute, discussing how the company secures its software production pipelines for its flagship AI and machine learning platform, SAS Viya 4. SAS initially utilized JFrog Artifactory for managing Java-based Maven and Ivy artifacts. To address the increasing need for robust security and compliance with global regulations, the company expanded its partnership with JFrog by integrating additional security tools to protect their delivery pipelines.

Why Connected Platforms Will Power the Next Generation of AI in Engineering | Harness Blog

AI is quickly becoming part of the engineering workflow. Teams are experimenting with assistants and agents that can answer questions, investigate incidents, suggest changes, and automate parts of software delivery. But there is a problem hiding underneath all of that momentum. Most engineering environments were not built to give AI the context it needs. In many organizations, the service catalog lives in one place. Deployment data lives in another. Incident history sits in a separate system.

Testing AI with AI: Why Deterministic Frameworks Fail at Chatbot Validation and What Actually Works | Harness Blog

Chatbots are becoming ubiquitous. Customer support, internal knowledge bases, developer tools, healthcare portals - if it has a user interface, someone is shipping a conversational AI layer on top of it. And the pace is only accelerating. But here's the problem nobody wants to talk about: we still don’t have a reliable way to test these chatbots at scale. Not because testing is new to us. We've been testing software for decades.

Peak traffic without the panic: auto-scaling infrastructure for ecommerce flash sales

Key takeaway: Upsun replaces manual, high-stress peak traffic prep with automatic scaling, keeping your e-commerce site fast and available during flash sales while you only pay for the resources you consume. For every e-commerce team, an outage means lost revenue, failed checkouts, and a flood of support tickets. For most stores, this gets worse during peak events like Black Friday and flash sales.