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Most IT leaders agree on one thing: digital employee experience matters. What is less clear is how to operationalize it in ways that deliver measurable business outcomes. Many organizations invest in tools and dashboards, launch experience initiatives, and even measure sentiment. But without an operational model that connects employee experience to core business objectives, IT teams often stay stuck in reactive support. DEXOps changes that.

AI didn’t replace developers. It replaced the part where you were forced to understand what you just shipped. Now you can prompt your way to a feature, skim the diff, and merge something that “seems reasonable.” And then production does what production always does: finds the one weird browser + one slow network + one user flow that turns your “reasonable” code into a bonfire. So who watches the vibe coder?

We just released React Native SDK 8.0.0, here's what's new, and what's changed. It's been a while since the last major version. The last major release, 7.0.0, shipped on September 2, 2025. After 13 minor and 2 patch releases, it's finally time for a new major version to land: 8.0.0. This version is a maintenance and capability major. This means we: It should be straightforward to upgrade, but check the migration guide for your setup.

Service reliability has outgrown uptime checks and component-level tools, creating friction that slows response, increases toil, and wears teams down. Uptime checks can pass, high availability can be in place, and users still can’t complete basic actions. Pages load slowly, latency spikes, and requests stall — all without a single system flagged as down. Availability measures whether a service is running.

Mining for information about environments is like trying to find gold. Looking for gold can be sifting through silty waters or blasting through a mine. In some cases, the gold nuggets are so small as to be almost invisible, some things look like gold but aren’t, and others are larger nuggets where the miner strikes it rich. Trying to understand how a distributed system works means sifting through vast amounts of telemetry, looking for patterns.

What happens when the people who helped define observability take a hard look at AI? That’s what Honeycomb co-founders Christine Yen (CEO) and Charity Majors (CTO) dug into during this webinar, starting with the early days of observability (back when it wasn’t even a category yet).

For years, organizations tried to solve operational pain by collecting more data, adding more dashboards, and consolidating more tools. But 2025 exposed a deeper mismatch. Systems had become more distributed, AI-assisted, and interdependent than ever before, while teams had shrunk and on-call pressure had intensified. This wasn’t a tooling failure. It was an architectural and cognitive one.

Last year it was widely reported that the CA/Browser Forum had voted to significantly reduce the lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates over the next 4 years, with a final lifespan of just 47 days starting in 2029. The first reduction will come into action in a few weeks, on March 15th 2026, accelerating the need for organizations to automate their monitoring and renewal processes around certificate expiry.

The web was built for humans, but now the agents are taking over. Humans look at a web page and see content rendered by their browser. AI agents see 180,000 tokens of nav bars, footers, and div soup — burning through their context window on junk that makes them slower and stupider. The web needs to evolve, and we as developers are driving the shift. AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini are how we interact with documentation, CLIs, and products today.