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Speak Their Language: How Communication Profiling Prevents Agile Delivery Breakdowns (Thu, 08 Jan 2026)
Agile delivery failures are usually explained with comfortable excuses. The backlog was unclear. The scope changed. The estimates were wrong. The architecture was fragile. The process wasn’t followed closely enough. In real delivery environments, especially complex or hybrid ones, those explanations rarely hold up for long.
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When Services Think for Themselves: Traditional Orchestration vs. Agentic AI Microservices (Thu, 08 Jan 2026)
Understanding How Traditional Orchestration Manages Microservices From Netflix to Spotify and Walmart, industry stalwarts across the globe leverage microservices at scale to deliver rapid innovation across their services. Microservices architecture has brought a fundamental shift in the way modern cloud computing drives applications to scale, evolve, and deploy independently. The foundational pillars upon which this innovation rests include orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker Swarm. These platforms automate the deployment and management of containerized services. As the scope of these services expands, the reliance on human-defined policies, configurations, and operational thresholds has increased. However, such scale must be accompanied by streamlined automation to avoid scaling bottlenecks. As a result, this begets the question: Can a sufficiently autonomous thinking agent take over the operational heavy lifting and make microservices truly self-managing?
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Essential Techniques for Production Vector Search Systems Part 1 - Hybrid Search (Thu, 08 Jan 2026)
After implementing vector search systems at multiple companies, I wanted to document efficient techniques that could be very helpful for successful production deployments of vector search systems. I want to present these techniques, showcasing when to apply each of them, how they complement each other, and the trade-offs they introduce. This will be a multi-part series that introduces all of the techniques one by one in each article. I have also included code snippets to quickly test each of the techniques.
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Telemetry-Driven AI Architecture: Closing the Loop from UX to Models (Thu, 08 Jan 2026)
Most Android AI features die quietly after launch. You ship a smart recommendation, a ranking model, or an LLM-powered assistant. It works great on your test data, metrics look decent, and then… real users behave differently. Edge cases appear, traffic shifts, product changes. The model slowly drifts out of sync with reality.
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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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