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Production-Ready Observability for Analytics Agents: An Open Telemetry Blueprint Across Retrieval, SQL, Redaction, and Tool Calls (Wed, 18 Feb 2026)
An analytics agent works great in demos: ask a question, and it fetches context, runs SQL queries, and summarizes the results. Then the real incident happens: a VP challenges a number, the security team asks whether restricted fields were exposed, or an auditor requests to see how the answer was produced and which controls were applied. Most teams can’t answer confidently because their observability was built for latency and debugging — not governance. They either:
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Mastering the Gemini 3 API: Architecting Next-Gen Multimodal AI Applications (Wed, 18 Feb 2026)
The landscape of large language models (LLMs) has shifted from text-centric interfaces to truly multimodal reasoning engines. With the release of the Gemini 3 API, Google has introduced a paradigm shift in how developers interact with artificial intelligence. Gemini 3 isn’t just an incremental update; it represents a fundamental advancement in native multimodality, expanded context windows, and efficient agentic workflows. In this technical deep dive, we will explore the architecture of Gemini 3, compare its capabilities with previous generations, and walk through the implementation of a production-ready AI feature: a Multimodal Intelligent Research Assistant.
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10 Go Best Practices Every Backend Developer Should Know (Wed, 18 Feb 2026)
Go has become a cornerstone language for building scalable backend services, cloud-native applications, and DevOps tooling. While Go’s simplicity is one of its greatest strengths, writing production-ready Go code requires more than just knowing the syntax. This guide distills practical best practices that teams can adopt to improve code quality, consistency, and maintainability. If you're new to Go, start with the official Go documentation and Effective Go. This article builds on those foundations with team-specific patterns that work well in enterprise environments.
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From On-Call to On-Guard: Hardening Incident Response Against Security-Driven Outages (Wed, 18 Feb 2026)
The pager doesn't care why production is burning. A compromised credential chain triggering mass file encryption demands the same midnight scramble as a misconfigured load balancer taking down the payment gateway. Yet most organizations still maintain separate playbooks, separate escalation trees, separate war rooms for "technical incidents" versus "security incidents" — as if attackers politely wait for the right team to clock in. This artificial boundary is killing response times when every minute counts.
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DevOps Cafe Podcast

DevOps Cafe Ep 79 - Guests: Joseph Jacks and Ben Kehoe (Mon, 13 Aug 2018)
Triggered by Google Next 2018, John and Damon chat with Joseph Jacks (stealth startup) and Ben Kehoe (iRobot) about their public disagreements — and agreements — about Kubernetes and Serverless. 
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DevOps Cafe Ep 78 - Guest: J. Paul Reed (Mon, 23 Jul 2018)
John and Damon chat with J.Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches) about the field of Systems Safety and Human Factors that studies why accidents happen and how to minimize the occurrence and impact. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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DevOps Cafe Ep. 77 - Damon interviews John (Wed, 20 Jun 2018)
A new season of DevOps Cafe is here. The topic of this episode is "DevSecOps." Damon interviews John about what this term means, why it matters now, and the overall state of security.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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