Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Redundancy isn’t just a buzzword – it’s the design principle keeping modern AI and cloud applications online. In this Uplink episode, Kevin Schlosser, Interconnection Product Manager at NTT Global Data Centers, explains how resilient infrastructure is engineered to expect failure but remain operational. We explore: Diverse entry points and fiber path management AI-driven bandwidth growth: 100G standard, 400G emerging Cooling innovations for intense compute workloads Why providers without their own fiber may offer the most resilient paths.

Manual governance in regulated industries is like steering a ship with last year’s map. Approvals, ticket queues, and after-the-fact evidence collection slow delivery and increase risk. By the time an audit arrives, teams are scrambling to prove they followed the process. Watch Kosli’s Mike join Nathen Harvey at DORA to unpack why this happens — and what continuous, automated governance can do to fix it.

Learn how to set up the Cortex MCP in under 5 minutes. The MCP integrates directly into your IDE, giving instant access to Cortex data without leaving your coding environment. It reduces context switching by enabling natural questions about services and teams, and streamlines workflows with real-time data from Cortex, Jira, GitHub, and more.

Ultimately, a system is reliable when customers and engineers can count on it. Full transcript:  When I get to hear stories like, "Hey, we just had our holiday sales event kick off and everything went smoothly and I didn't have to wake up in the middle of the night." That is really the true definition of reliability these people that are constantly hands-on keyboard in charge of making sure that people like myself and like you aren't impacted when we're going to, for example, buy a new pair of sneakers, or we're going to get some sort of limited edition release that's coming out, right?

Platform teams face an impossible choice: rigid standardization that slows developers down, or operational chaos that creates security gaps. CircleCI's new Platform Team Toolkit eliminates this tradeoff by delivering self-service developer experiences with built-in governance. What You'll See in This Demo: Key Benefits: Perfect for platform engineers, DevOps teams, and engineering leaders who need to scale software delivery without sacrificing speed or safety.

How should businesses decide between sticking to an LTS release or moving to a continuous upgrade model? In this episode, we explore the trade-offs, from stability and security to innovation and agility, and why flexibility in your upgrade policy is key to long-term success. We break down when LTS makes sense, when frequent upgrades deliver the most value, and how to balance both to keep your business secure, stable, and ready for what’s next.