OpenHands Unveils Agent Control Plane to Scale AI Coding Agents Enterprise‑Wide
OpenHands announced the launch of its Agent Control Plane, a centralized operational layer that lets enterprises orchestrate, secure and observe fleets of AI coding agents. The platform targets the gap between experimentation and production, offering workflow‑level cost tracking and least‑privilege sandboxing for large‑scale DevOps automation.
OpsMill Secures $14 Million Series A to Bolster Trusted Infrastructure Data for AI
OpsMill announced a $14 million Series A round led by IRIS, with participation from BGV, Serena and Partech. The funding will expand engineering and product teams for Infrahub, a graph‑based platform that promises a single source of truth for infrastructure data...
Friday Five — May 8, 2026
Red Hat’s 2026 Summit preview highlighted its AI‑driven platform strategy, emphasizing inference optimization, token economics, and hybrid multicloud workloads. The company announced the winners of its 20th Innovation Awards—ARSAT, Emirates NBD, One NZ and TD—recognizing open‑source breakthroughs. Red Hat also released RHEL 10.2...
Your Guide to Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) at Red Hat Summit 2026
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) will be a centerpiece of Red Hat Summit 2026, where the company unveils new capabilities for AI‑driven workloads, virtual‑machine modernization, and automated cost management. The fully managed, jointly engineered platform from Red Hat and AWS promises tighter hybrid‑cloud...
The Zero-Trust Agent: Why Your AI Needs a Sandbox, Not a Blank Check
Upsun introduces a zero‑trust framework that forces AI agents to operate inside isolated, production‑accurate preview environments rather than holding unrestricted cloud credentials. The platform enforces environment‑level scoping and container isolation, letting agents propose changes, test them in a byte‑level clone,...
Jan Kristof Nidzwetzki: Tracing PostgreSQL Using eBPF and Hardware Breakpoints
Jan Kristof Nidzwetzki demonstrates how eBPF hardware breakpoints can trace PostgreSQL internal variables with minimal overhead. By setting watchpoints on memory addresses like nextXid and nextOid, developers can capture transaction ID generation and OID assignment in real time. Benchmarks show...
7 Ways to Monitor Critical User Flows on Your Website
Critical user flows—sign‑ups, checkouts, support tickets—are revenue engines, and any break can instantly erode sales and brand trust. Traditional uptime checks miss front‑end bugs, prompting a shift to synthetic monitoring that runs automated browser tests 24/7. Tools like Ghost Inspector...
Dyna Software's AI Assistant Promises to Massage Your Toughest ServiceNow Configs
Dyna Software unveiled Platform Copilot, an agentic AI that lets business users configure ServiceNow applications through natural language or uploaded form images, bypassing the need for developers. The tool reads a customer’s instance schema, generates wireframes, validates changes, and builds...
LightSeek Foundation Releases TokenSpeed, an Open-Source LLM Inference Engine Targeting TensorRT-LLM-Level Performance for Agentic Workloads
The LightSeek Foundation has launched TokenSpeed, an MIT‑licensed open‑source LLM inference engine built for agentic coding workloads. Its architecture combines a compiler‑backed SPMD modeling layer, a C++ finite‑state‑machine scheduler that enforces KV‑cache safety, and a pluggable kernel system that works...
OpenAI Debuts a Codex Plugin for Chrome
OpenAI released a Chrome extension for its Codex platform, enabling AI‑assisted coding directly in the browser. The plugin can test web applications, pull context from multiple open tabs, and operate alongside Chrome DevTools. It runs on both Windows and macOS,...
Mythos Boosts Firefox Bug Fixes: April Beats 15 Months
Skepticism of corporate marketing and AI boosterism is always warranted, but I think the folks who accused Anthropic of overrating Mythos should check out this post by Mozilla developers indicating that the Firefox team fixed more security bugs in April...
Traefik Labs Launches GA Ingress NGINX Replacement with 90%+ Annotation Coverage and AI Controls
Traefik Labs announced the general availability of Traefik Proxy 3.7 and Traefik Hub 3.20, a combined release that replaces the retiring NGINX Ingress controller with over 90% annotation compatibility and adds multi‑cluster API federation, FIPS‑140‑3 compliance and AI‑aware traffic controls....
Oracle Launches Monthly Critical Security Patches, Accelerating Enterprise Fixes
Oracle announced a shift to monthly Critical Security Patch Updates (CSPUs), with the first release on May 28, 2026. The new cadence, powered by frontier AI models, aims to cut exposure windows for self‑managed customers and complements the traditional quarterly...
Why Your RAG Pipeline Will Fail Without an MCP Server
Most production Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines fail because they lack a dedicated control plane for context orchestration. An Model Context Protocol (MCP) server inserts this missing layer, handling multi‑stage retrieval, ranking, token budgeting, policy enforcement, and tool routing between the...
Multi‑Agent AI Cuts Tokens, Boosts Speed, Improves Eval
AI agents are starting to operate like full engineering teams. Cursor_AI introduced /orchestrate for the Cursor SDK — a system that spawns agents to plan, code, test, and retry tasks automatically. Results so far: • 20% lower token usage • Better evals • 80% faster...
Trilio Extends Disaster Recovery Reach to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Trilio announced a technology preview of its Site Recovery platform that now supports Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, enabling continuous replication for legacy KVM workloads encapsulated in containers via KubeVirt. The solution runs on OpenShift 4.2 or later and lets IT teams...
Antony Pegg: PgEdge Control Plane Adds Supporting Services and a Preview of Systemd Support
pgEdge has expanded its Control Plane with two major capabilities: Supporting Services, a fully‑available feature that lets users declare PostgreSQL and surrounding AI‑oriented services in a single JSON spec, and a systemd Support preview that removes the Docker‑only requirement. The...
Why Modernization Is Defining the Next Decade of Cloud
Enterprises have moved past cloud adoption as a differentiator; today most operate in hybrid or multicloud environments where the cloud is a baseline. The new competitive edge lies in how effectively organizations modernize applications, data, and operations. Legacy lift‑and‑shift, fragmented...
Eliminate Noisy Log Lines with Adaptive Logs Drop Rules
Grafana Cloud has introduced drop‑rules for Adaptive Logs, now in public preview. The feature lets platform and observability teams define custom filters that discard low‑value logs—by level, label, or content—before they are ingested. Drop‑rules work alongside existing exemptions and recommendation...
AI Is Generating More Tests. But Are They Preventing the Next Cloud Outage?
Engineering teams are rapidly adopting AI tools that generate thousands of test cases, but the surge in test volume often masks quality gaps. Recent AWS outages have highlighted how fragile modern software can become when automated tests lack rigor, leading...
Elastic Architects Reveal How to Query Observability Data in Plain English
Elastic’s solutions architects announced that companies can now query observability data in plain English using OpenTelemetry and generative AI. The approach removes the bottleneck of relying on SREs by unifying telemetry across storage systems and translating logs into natural‑language insights....
ServiceNow Extends Build Agent to All Major AI Coding Tools, Enforcing Governance by Default
ServiceNow announced at its Knowledge 2026 conference that Build Agent is now generally available in ServiceNow Studio and integrated with every major AI coding assistant, including Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot. The integration embeds the platform’s governance layer...
What Mozilla Learned Running an AI Security Bug Hunting Pipeline on Firefox
Mozilla deployed an agentic harness powered by Claude Mythos Preview to scan Firefox’s source code, uncovering 271 security bugs that were patched in Firefox 150 and earlier releases. The pipeline, built by a team of over 100 engineers, leveraged automated validation...
The Inference Imperative: Why Running AI Is Harder than Building It
Enterprises have mastered AI model development, but scaling inference reveals deeper challenges. Fragmented data, legacy systems, and reactive IT processes cause pilots to falter in production. Successful AI now depends on unified data environments, embedded governance, and automated operations. Companies...
Expanding the Atlassian Ecosystem with Xray and Easysecrets - Xray Blog
Easysecrets has deepened its Atlassian ecosystem strategy by partnering with Xray, a leading test‑management app, and integrating its AI‑driven capabilities into Easysecrets' Whiteboard Reports. The integration adds coverage, success and automation metrics, plus a full record of test runs, giving...
Production-Ready B2B RAG Platform Built on AWS Free Tier
Kindly read through my blog post on my latest project. I’m working on a b2b Rag project https://adleke.hashnode.dev/i-built-a-production-ready-b2b-rag-platform-on-aws-free-tier-a-complete-technical-deep-dive?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed
Embrace AI Slop for Faster Parallel Experimentation
AI slop is good, actually. Slop is what enables fast parallel experimentation. The etiquette and skill is understanding the boundaries of where slop exists and the extent to which it should be cleaned up and how. A few examples: I’m working on...
The Code Is Writing Itself. The Risks Aren’t Waiting.
Developers are increasingly using AI systems that can write, test, and deploy code autonomously, accelerating software delivery but creating opaque security gaps. Operant AI introduced Endpoint Protector, a runtime‑focused solution that watches AI‑driven coding agents for suspicious behavior, aiming to...
Imply Launches Lumi Enterprise, a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud Offering Designed for Observability Data
Imply announced Lumi Enterprise, a Bring‑Your‑Own‑Cloud (BYOC) version of its Lumi observability warehouse that runs entirely inside a customer’s AWS account. The solution promises 60‑80% lower storage and investigation costs compared with traditional indexing tools like Splunk, while preserving existing...
Reactive Ops to Autonomous Infrastructure: How Agentic AI Is Redefining Modern DevOps
Modern DevOps teams are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of logs, metrics, and alerts generated by distributed, constantly changing infrastructure. Traditional reactive workflows—detect, alert, investigate, fix—depend heavily on human judgment and cannot scale. Agentic AI introduces autonomous infrastructure that continuously...
Atlassian Adds AI Chat, Code Insights and Agent Metrics to DX Suite
Atlassian unveiled four AI‑native capabilities in its recently acquired DX platform, including an AI chat interface, AI Code Insights, proactive SLA alerts and an Agent Experience scorecard. The additions aim to give engineering leaders concrete data on AI tool usage,...
Which Engineering Metrics Actually Drive Outcomes?
Engineering leaders rely on DORA metrics for visibility, yet a one‑size‑fits‑all approach often mislabels team performance. The article argues that without contextual benchmarks, infrastructure and feature teams are judged by inappropriate standards. It proposes embedding metrics into the software delivery...
Spring Boot Interview Question — Your API Went Viral Overnight
A merchant checkout API built with Spring Boot saw traffic surge from 2,000 to 250,000 requests per minute after a partner’s retry bug, overwhelming CPU, DB connections, Redis, and downstream gateways, dropping availability to 62%. Investigation revealed 80% of the...
Essential Docker Cheat Sheet for DevOps Mastery
From Docker basics to volumes and Dockerfiles — this is the kind of cheat sheet every DevOps engineer wishes they had earlier 🐳🔥 If you’re learning containers, mastering these Docker concepts will make deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting apps way easier. Save this...
PagerDuty Introduces AI‑Powered Triage to SRE Agent for Faster Incident Resolution
PagerDuty has rolled out AI‑driven triage capabilities within its SRE Agent, enabling automated classification and routing of incidents. The enhancement aims to cut response times and lessen the need for manual intervention, marking a notable upgrade to the company's incident‑management...
Why the Future of Software Is No Longer Written — It Is Architected, Governed and Continuously Learned
The article argues that by 2026 software development will be driven by generative AI, shifting the CIO mandate from rapid code delivery to architecting and governing enterprise intelligence. AI agents now orchestrate the entire software lifecycle, compressing design and deployment...
Umair Shahid: You Have a Patroni Leader Election. You Are only Halfway to PostgreSQL High Availability.
Patroni reliably elects a new PostgreSQL leader, but that alone isn’t full high availability. Without automated routing, standby rejoin, replica sync, and application reconnection, a primary loss can still cause minutes to hours of downtime. Implementing a virtual IP, HAProxy,...
Breakpoint 2026 Speaker Spotlight: Julio De Lima
BrowserStack’s Breakpoint 2026 will feature Julio de Lima, QA Manager at Capco and a prominent YouTube educator for Brazil’s testing community. De Lima will lead a live build session that creates an API from scratch, designs automated tests, and runs...
Microcks Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted to promote Microcks to an incubating project. Microcks is an open‑source, cloud‑native platform that turns API contracts—including OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, gRPC, GraphQL, and SOAP—into live mock servers and contract‑testing suites. Since joining the CNCF sandbox...
Kloudfuse 4.0 Delivers AI-Governed Observability and Scalable Workload Isolation
Kloudfuse announced the general availability of version 4.0, a platform that combines AI‑driven observability with production‑grade governance while keeping all telemetry inside the customer’s cloud. The release addresses three urgent pressures: the 2026 FIPS 140‑2 sunset, the surge of AI agents...
8 Best AIOps Platforms for IT Operations Monitoring in 2026
The G2 Spring 2026 Grid Report ranks the top AIOps platforms for IT operations monitoring, highlighting ServiceNow ITOM, Atera, IBM Instana, Dynatrace, Datadog, Rakuten SixthSense, IBM Turbonomic and SysAid. Atera tops the list for lean teams with per‑technician pricing, while ServiceNow...
Anthropic Skill Scanners Passed Every Check. The Malicious Code Rode in on a Test File.
Anthropic Skill scanners correctly flag markdown and agent scripts but miss bundled test files. Gecko Security demonstrated that a malicious *.test.ts file can run via Jest/Vitest when a developer installs a Skill, exposing environment secrets and SSH keys. Audits by...
TokenSpeed Delivers Light‑Speed LLM Inference, Open‑Source
LightSeek's TokenSpeed, a speed-of-light LLM inference engine - TensorRT LLM level performance - vLLM level usability - Built by a lean and mission-driven team in two months - MIT license, open-source Blog: https://lightseek.org/blog/lightseek-tokenspeed.html Repo: https://github.com/lightseekorg/tokenspeed
Avoid Circular Dependencies: Separate Monitoring From Observed Systems
Your status page or observability system probably shouldn't be using the same system it's supposed to be monitoring. Airbnb found some circular dependencies and made changes to ensure they could do monitoring reliably at scale. https://t.co/rmSAeYTZF2
Open-Source MCP Server Monitoring for Python Apps
BlueRock has open‑sourced MCP Python Hooks, a runtime sensor that captures Model Context Protocol (MCP) server events and Python import activity without requiring code changes. The sensor leverages native audit hooks, import hooks, and wrapt‑based framework hooks to emit structured...
AI Success Depends on Robust QA and DevOps Maturity
RT 77% of orgs are confident in AI outputs? while many still lack secure CI/CD, automated audit trails, and even basic defect escape metrics. Your QA and DevOps maturity will make or break AI agents in production. #AI #DevOps #QA @Star_CIO ...
GKE Pod Snapshots Eliminate Cold Starts for Massive Models
Facing a cold start when your XX billion parameter model is loading up for inference on Kubernetes? You might love the new @googlecloud GKE pod snapshots. All your app state, along with most file system and networking state, get saved and...
Multi-Model AI Is Creating a Routing Headache for Enterprises
Enterprises are treating AI inference as a core production workload, with 78% operating their own services and averaging seven models per deployment, according to F5’s 2026 State of Application Strategy Report. Multi‑model inference spreads across hybrid multicloud environments, demanding new...
AI‑driven Testing May Not Stop Future Cloud Failures
AI Is Generating More Tests. But Are They Preventing the Next Cloud Outage? https://t.co/mDhFQIC0yJ https://t.co/s5k945Epv4
Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: Autovacuum_naptime, Autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay, Autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit
PostgreSQL’s autovacuum subsystem relies on three inter‑related settings—autovacuum_naptime, autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay, and autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit—to balance cleanup work against I/O load. The defaults, calibrated for single‑digit database clusters on spinning disks, can cause excessive latency in modern multi‑tenant or NVMe environments. Adjusting naptime to...