Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Protecting Sensitive Information in an Era of Digital Transformation

You might worry about keeping your personal or work data safe as more things move online. In 2023, over half of large companies reported some type of data breach. This blog will show simple ways to protect sensitive information using smart tools and habits. Start learning now to stay ahead of new digital threats!

The Hidden Bottlenecks in AI Infrastructure (and How to Fix Them)

Artificial intelligence has entered an era where infrastructure is the real moat. Teams spend millions on GPUs, yet models still stall, latency spikes unpredictably, and throughput flatlines at 20% of what spec sheets promise. These hidden bottlenecks lurk far beneath the surface - in power grids, network fabrics, memory bandwidth, orchestration layers, and even governance policies. In this guide, we uncover where AI infrastructure actually breaks, what the emerging data and research reveal, and how Clarifai's reasoning and orchestration stack helps eliminate these unseen friction points.

Improve Observability in Your CI/CD Pipeline

The backbone of modern software development is automation and at the heart of that lies the CI/CD pipeline. It’s what turns code into deployable software, delivering changes to users faster, safer, and more predictably. In simple terms, a CI/CD pipeline automates everything from the moment developers push code to when it reaches production. It integrates, tests, builds, and deploys software continuously ensuring faster releases with fewer human errors.

VoIP Jitter Survival Guide: How to Diagnose, Monitor & Troubleshoot

VoIP jitter is the variation in packet arrival time during voice calls, measured in milliseconds. When voice packets travel across your network at inconsistent intervals; some arriving faster, others slower—you experience jitter. Acceptable jitter for VoIP is 30 milliseconds or less. Above this threshold, you'll notice choppy audio, robotic voices, delays, and call drops that disrupt business communication.

Certificate revocation is broken but we pretend it works

Last week, someone commented on my post about 47-day certificates: This perfectly captures our collective delusion that SSL certificate revocation works. You click a button, the certificate stops working. And why wouldn’t we believe that? Every CA has a big “Revoke Certificate” button right there in the dashboard. It must do something, right? Here’s the dirty truth: most revoked certificates keep working.

The Hidden Side of AI: Building a Smarter Enterprise AI Solution

Everyone is talking about AI models, copilots, and large language engines. They’re certainly impressive, even transformative, but they’re only part of the story. The real power of AI depends on what’s happening behind the scenes. In enterprise environments, that hidden side of AI (the infrastructure, automation, and orchestration that make everything run) determines whether an AI strategy succeeds or fails. That’s where a smarter enterprise AI solution begins.

Sync your Backstage catalog with Datadog IDP

Backstage is a popular open source framework for building internal developer portals (IDPs) used by organizations to aggregate service metadata and create a single source of truth for their software developers. However, data stored in the Backstage Software Catalog can quickly become siloed and inaccessible from monitoring tools such as Datadog.

Exploring why PostgreSQL 18 put asynchronous I/O in your database

For years, PostgreSQL relied on synchronous I/O, meaning that when the database needed data from disk, each read operation was a blocking system call. The database process would therefore pause and wait for the data retrieval before moving to the next task. Synchronous I/O works well for local storage, but our database needs have changed drastically since then, resulting in this architecture creating significant bottlenecks when storage has higher latency.

How to Monitor AI Agents in Commerce Systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t just writing text or generating images anymore. It’s starting to make real-world decisions. Now, with agentic systems, we’re entering an era where AI models don’t just respond; they act autonomously, buying, booking, and negotiating on behalf of users. That may sound promising, but those of us in the trenches of reliability know that progress always comes with trade-offs. Make no mistake, this shift fundamentally changes how observability works.