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Based on the LeadDev panel discussion "Governance Is the Platform Problem Worth Solving," hosted in partnership with Harness, August 5, 2026. AI agents are no longer waiting for a human to approve their next move. They open pull requests, adjust configurations, and act on behalf of the people who deployed them — often faster than any review cycle can keep up.

94% of engineering leaders say their AI metrics are missing. Here's how platform engineering is changing to close that gap. Based on the InfoQ webinar "Platform Engineering in the Age of AI," featuring panelists from Harness, DKB, and Shine, August 18, 2026. 94% of engineering leaders say the AI metrics that matter most to them are missing.

Comparisons of SAP observability tools often evaluate which platforms can see inside SAP.Today, that’s nearly all of them. Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic and Splunk can all get SAP telemetry. None of them are likely the best choice for an SAP-centric application, and we will document why. The questions teams evaluating SAP observability solutions should consider: That last one is where most of these platforms stop, and it is the difference between observability and operations.

Every monitoring alert, scheduled report, and email to ticket conversion in your stack depends on a mailbox. Most monitoring and helpdesk management tools still reach that mailbox the old way. They log in with a username and password over SMTP or EWS. Exchange Online is closing both doors on a published schedule. The tools that fail will fail silently. In this blog, you will: By the end, you can run the change on a weekday afternoon and know nothing went quiet.

How many Macs in your environment are running an OS build that your patch compliance report has never counted? In most mixed Windows and Mac deployments, the Windows side is managed by policy and the Mac side is managed by hope. Designers, executives, and engineering leads install updates when a notification interrupts them, and otherwise dismiss the prompt for months.

September 22, 2026 is not an operating system shutdown date. It is a cryptographic compliance transition that changes what federal organizations can use for new systems and what they must defend in existing ones.

Human approval is easy when you are sitting in front of the agent. For an agent running by itself in a cluster, almost none of that holds. You’re in a meeting and your agent is running in a cluster. It has a service account, it has been asked to keep a service healthy, and it has just worked out that the right fix is to roll back a database migration. Nobody is watching it. That was rather the point of deploying it. You want to get notified to approve such an important action.

Improvements to the Progress Flowmon product family continue, and we are pleased to announce the release of Flowmon 13.1. The latest 13.1 release builds on the strong foundations we laid in Flowmon 13. Headline enhancements include a rebuilt visualization layer, automated investigation workflows and a set of AI-assisted capabilities in the Flowmon Anomaly Detection System (ADS). And the Flowmon team is eager to share how your team can utilize these new capabilities.