2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (897+ words) Apache Flink on the IBM mainframe connects real-time processing with core systems, enabling hybrid cloud and AI without full migration. A few months ago, I wrote about integrating Apache Kafka with mainframe systems. The blog covered various real-world examples across…...

4+ day, 12+ min ago   (800+ words) Fifteen years in, and the conversation I have most often with security leads still starts the same way: how's your perimeter, how's your endpoint coverage, how's your SOC staffed? Almost nobody opens with "how's your pipeline." That's the gap I…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (259+ words) Safely deploy control- and data-plane changes with Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, health gates, traffic shifting, and rollback. Argo CD sync phases and waves provide deterministic ordering inside an Application. Resources are ordered by phase, numeric wave, kind, and name. Argo…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (708+ words) Single AI agents fail during incidents. Four specialized agents — supervisor, telemetry, reasoning, action — handle observability more reliably. Usually it doesn't fail catastrophically. It fails quietly, in ways that are hard to debug. And quiet failures during incident response are the…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1022+ words) Learn how to test, monitor, and deploy reliable agentic AI and multi-agent systems in enterprise environments using modern testing and CI/CD strategies. With industry analysts recording a massive surge in multi-agent system deployments, including a staggering 1,445% increase in enterprise…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (270+ words) Every email authentication control is really a DNS record, so most email security failures are DNS mechanics, not protocol misunderstandings. Every email authentication control you deploy is a DNS record. Not "backed by" DNS, not "uses" DNS. It is a…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (353+ words) AI incidents don't follow the security playbook: no CVE, no patch, and evidence that vanishes in minutes unless you've planned ahead. Every mature engineering team has a Security Incident Response Plan, refined over years of postmortems. But when the incident…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (803+ words) When mock files drift from current service behavior, DORA metrics underreport failures. Deployment rework rate is the metric that shows what change failure rate missed. Every one of these metrics is a faithful record of what the pipeline said happened....

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1579+ words) Picture a business-critical SQL query crawling for seven hours. Nearly a full workday. The system keeps grinding through data, the business keeps losing time and money, and users are stuck waiting. Then a performance engineer steps in. After a few…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1155+ words) Agentic clients via MCP are a new human interface to old software. They are an appealing choice: they use native language. But it is not always the wise approach. Traditional enterprise UX has two unsatisfying answers: build heavyweight forms that…...