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KubeCon Retrospective: Platform Engineering Needs to Do More Testing

Every year, KubeCon offers a candid look at where the cloud-native community stands — the tools gaining traction, the pain points teams share, and the big gaps still holding organizations back. After a week of deep conversations, session hopping, and talking to dozens of platform teams, one theme became impossible to ignore: Platform engineering still isn’t doing enough testing. And even more surprising: many teams don’t think testing is their responsibility.

Reality Bytes: The Rise (and Risks) of Vibe Coding

In this Reality Bytes reunion, Tom, Sean, Tim, Oriana and Megan unpack the buzzy rise of vibe coding — the AI-assisted development trend coined by Andrej Karpathy and already explored by companies like Meta and Microsoft. The panel digs beneath the hype: from accelerated prototyping and accessibility gains to serious risks around technical debt, shadow applications, governance, security and the loss of human accountability. Oriana and Megan highlight the importance of schema, context and genuine creativity, while Tim warns against mistaking speed for quality. Is vibe coding the future - or just another fragile shortcut?

Introducing SigNoz's LLM-Powered Datadog Migration Tool

But migration is painful. Moving from Datadog means manually rebuilding dashboards, rewriting every query, and reconfiguring panels one by one. What took months to build takes weeks to migrate. Engineering teams get pulled away from actual product work to rebuild monitoring infrastructure they already had working. Critical monitoring setups and the context around why dashboards were built a certain way often get lost. We kept hearing about this from teams evaluating SigNoz, so we built a solution.

Define, run, and scale custom LLM-as-a-judge evaluations in Datadog

Teams deploying LLM applications face a critical blind spot: They can measure speed and cost, but not whether their AI is actually giving good answers. To build user trust in these applications, teams also need to measure response quality, including factual accuracy, safety, and tone. Operational metrics show how a system behaves, but not whether its responses are correct or on brand.

AI: Your (Not So) Secret Agent In Cloud Cost Control

Read a few articles on artificial intelligence and financial operations, and you’re bound to run across a sentence like this: AI enables FinOps teams to reduce TCO and boost ROI. Or one like this: The future of FinOps uses agentic AI-powered systems to detect and remediate cost issues automatically. Keep reading and you’ll find piece after piece that say a lot about AI and FinOps … without really saying anything.

IA for AI: Rethinking How We Store, Surface, And Share Data In A Conversational World

Information architecture used to be about structure. We organized menus and pages into trees, built hierarchies, and created pathways for people to follow. For years, that worked. Navigation was the interface. But that world is changing. People aren’t clicking their way through information anymore. They’re asking for it. They’re refining questions, expecting context, and assuming that systems will not only understand what they mean, but act on it.

Your First-Line AI Teammate #helpdesk #ai

No more fixing the same issues again and again! The AI Assistant jumps in like a tireless first-line teammate, instantly providing the right solution. You choose whether it uses your internal knowledge, public resources, or both. See how easy it is to let AI handle recurring support issues, so your IT team can focus on bigger things. In this video, we used gpt-4.1 for completion and text-embedding-3-large for embeddings.

The engineering leader's guide to AI tools for developers in 2026

The holiday shopping season is a familiar ritual for many. We spend hours researching the best deals, comparing features, and reading reviews to make sure we’re investing in the right things. As we all come to grips with the fact that 2026 is right around the corner, engineering leaders are doing the same thing, but largely in response to the explosion of AI developer tools.

Rollbar Debugging with ChatGPT using Service Links

In this guide, we will walk you through how to add a service link that connects directly to the Rollbar Debugging Assistant—our ChatGPT-powered tool that helps you quickly analyze and debug an occurrence’s raw.json without needing access to your code repository. The Rollbar Debugging Assistant makes it easier and faster to understand what went wrong in a specific error occurrence.