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The zero-trust agent: why your AI needs a sandbox, not a blank check

Key takeaway: Granting AI agents unrestricted access to cloud infrastructure is an unacceptable security risk. Upsun provides a "zero-trust" framework by utilizing isolated, production-perfect preview environments that allow AI to be productive without the risk of a hallucinated production outage.

Zero-Code OpenTelemetry for Vert.x

Drop a JAR on the JVM. Get distributed tracing, RxJava context propagation, log-trace correlation, and Vert.x internal metrics. No code changes. No Maven dependency. Java 8–21. Inside the design of last9/vertx-opentelemetry v2.3.4. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.

Using Cortex AI Assistant to Clean Flags

Every team ships feature flags. Nobody owns the cleanup. The result is predictable: ownership gaps, environmental drift, complex targeting nobody remembers writing. In this Feature Friday, Cortex VP of Product Kara Gillis walks through how she triaged nearly 100 of our own LaunchDarkly flags using the Cortex AI Assistant in Slack. The Assistant queried our internal Feature Flag Scorecard and returned.

7 Best Practices to Improve Digital Employee Experience in Modern IT Environments

Digital employee experience isn’t just a nice to have anymore. In hybrid, SaaS heavy IT environments Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is where productivity can live or die. Employees don’t care whether the culprit is Wi‑Fi connectivity, CPU/RAM load, poor battery life, or a misbehaving cloud app. They just know work got harder.

How to Ship AI-Generated Code to Production

AI writes code. But shipping to production? That still takes a software engineer. In this GitKon talk, Chris Kelly from Augment Code breaks down what it actually means to use AI-assisted development to write production-ready code, not vibe code. If you've been using AI coding assistants and wondering why the output doesn't always make it past code review, this is for you. Chris covers: Key takeaway: The engineers who will thrive aren't the ones who let AI do everything. They're the ones who know how to review, direct, and architect around what AI produces.

Building a dev platform like a product: Inside The New York Times with Sneha Rao and Ahmed Bebars

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Sneha Rao, VP of Product, and Ahmed Bebars, Principal Engineer, both from The New York Times Developer Platforms team, to discuss what it means to build and operate a developer platform at scale across a complex media organization.

How to Improve Your Documentation with AI (CircleCI Chunk Tutorial)

AI coding assistants help you ship features fast, but documentation almost never keeps up. In this Ship Smarter session, we'll show you how CircleCI's Chunk autonomous CI/CD agent automatically analyzes your codebase, identifies documentation gaps, and opens a pull request with improvements. No manual writing required. In this video.