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AURA in Practice: Mezmo's SRE bot, demo walkthrough

A walkthrough of the Slack-based SRE bot Mezmo's engineering team built on AURA, the open-source agent harness, running against Mezmo's own production tooling. Adrian Furlong shows the bot answering questions in a DM with tool calls visible inline, then in a shared channel where it reads the conversation before responding. He opens a fresh PagerDuty incident on camera. The webhook fires AURA, and within seconds, the agent posts a triage note back on the incident and a structured analysis in the dedicated incident channel.

Why Mandating AI Tools Backfires on Engineering Teams

Responsible AI adoption for engineering teams starts with culture, not compliance. In this GitKon talk, Rizel Scarlett (Tech Lead of Open Source DevRel at Block) shares how Block helped thousands of engineers actually want to use AI tools, including Goose, Cursor, Claude Code, and more, without mandates, vibe coding disasters, or security gaps.

New in PagerDuty's Slack Experience: Dedicated Channels, Quick Declare & New On-Call Paging Commands

For teams that live in Slack, incident management is getting a whole lot smoother. EA planned for May includes dedicated incident channels, one-click escalation, centralized configuration, onboarding tutorials, and new commands to page responders without leaving Slack.#IncidentResponse.

Retroactive sampling reduce trace traffic and costs

In this short, our software engineer Zhu Jiekun, explains how retroactive sampling can reduce trace traffic and ingestion costs by sending minimal data for sampling decisions and retrieving full spans only when needed—at the cost of added system complexity. Resources for Further Learning.

Federated Search | From Silos to Insight | AWS S3 Schema Discovery with Splunk-Managed Tables

This walk-through shows how Splunk's crawler, available through the Data Management app, can discover schema and partition keys for S3 backed datasets and create Splunk managed catalog tables. Once the data is mapped, analysts can search AWS S3 data through Splunk and bring it into broader security, observability, and operational workflows.

New in PagerDuty's Slack Experience: Dedicated Channels, Quick Declare & New On-Call Paging Commands

For teams that live in Slack, incident management is getting a whole lot smoother. EA planned for May includes dedicated incident channels, one-click escalation, centralized configuration, onboarding tutorials, and new commands to page responders without leaving Slack.#IncidentResponse.