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Your Boss Doesn't Understand Your Work (Here's Why)

Developer productivity metrics create unique anxiety. If your company rolled out tracking systems like DORA metrics or velocity dashboards, you're probably wondering what these numbers mean and how they'll evaluate your work. At GitKon 2025, we assembled senior engineers from GitHub, Cloudflare, Kong, and GitKraken to discuss "Your Boss is Measuring You, Now What?" The panel included both individual contributors and engineering leaders, creating an honest conversation about measurement from both perspectives.

Why MCP is becoming part of your product surface

AI assistants are quickly becoming a primary interface for how people interact with software. Developers ask them how to integrate APIs. Users ask them how products work. Buyers ask them how tools compare. Increasingly, the first explanation someone receives about your product does not come from your website, your documentation, or your sales team. It comes from an AI assistant. That shift has an important consequence that many organizations are only starting to notice.

Why preview environments only work when the platform owns them

Deployments are one of the few moments where software development still feels risky. Teams may have tests, a staging environment, and careful review processes, yet the final step still carries uncertainty. Will this change behave the same way in production? Will it interact cleanly with existing data, traffic, and infrastructure? Will it introduce regressions no one anticipated? Preview environments exist to reduce that uncertainty.

Upsun's AI story: the 5% path from pilots to production value at scale

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most companies do not have an AI problem. They have a delivery problem wearing an AI costume. MIT’s Project NANDA research has been widely cited for a brutal headline statistic: roughly 95% of corporate generative AI pilots fail to produce measurable business impact or returns, while only about 5% break through to meaningful outcomes. (Yahoo Finance) The models are impressive. The demos are dazzling. The budgets are real.

Intelligent FinOps: AI-Informed, AI-Enabled

AI is the new frontier for FinOps maturity. It introduces fresh spend patterns and new opportunities for value. As GPUs, inference, and retraining reshape costs, FinOps maturity grows through visibility, forecasting, and shared mindset about how these workloads drive business impact. In this 2025 post, I gave my guidelines for implementing AI tagging to give business context and clarity to vague AI invoices. Now, I’m sharing the next level up: how to drive FinOps in AI with AI.

From Chaos To Clarity: How Forcepoint Scaled FinOps Across The Organization

When Anthony Leung talks about FinOps, he’s speaking from operating at real scale — not theory. As VP of Engineering Platforms and Security Research at Forcepoint, he led a transformation that cut cloud spend in half while improving availability, and built a culture where engineers own their economics.

(Tech Talk) Shipping with Context Knowledge Graphs as the Backbone of AI-First Software Delivery

Knowledge graphs are essential to solving the context bottleneck in AI-First software delivery, which occurs because workflows, policies, and dependencies are siloed and invisible to AI agents. In this Tech Talk, Prateek Mittal ((Product Director of AI Core and Data Platform at Harness)) discusses the key concepts: Knowledge Graphs vs. Observability: Observability tells you "what is happening," while knowledge graphs tell you "what does that mean" by modeling structured relationships. They work together to link live signals to affected services or SLAs.

Introducing Harness Artifact Registry | Unified. Secure. Built for the Future Artifact Management

Managing build artifacts today is harder than it should be. Fragmented tools, security blind spots, and disconnected developer workflows make it difficult to keep builds safe, consistent, and production-ready. In this walkthrough, Shibam Dhar, DevRel Engineer at Harness, shows how Harness Artifact Registry unifies artifact management across the entire software delivery lifecycle — from creation to deployment — while improving security and developer experience.

Top 9 Observability Tools for AI-Assisted Development & Deployment

AI-assisted development is rapidly becoming the default way software is built. Code generation, AI copilots, agentic pull requests, and automated refactoring are now embedded directly into engineering workflows. While this shift dramatically increases delivery speed, it also introduces a new operational reality: production systems are changing faster than humans can fully reason about them. This is where observability becomes mission-critical.