News
New AI energy alliance puts workload flexibility on the SRE agenda
Google, NVIDIA and Emerald AI are backing flexible data centers. Operators will need to define which AI work can yield power, and how it recovers.
Nate Reuck
SRE and platform engineering practitioner. Writing about what actually works in production.
News
Claude adds on-demand compaction for long-running agents
The Messages API can now summarize conversation history when an application chooses. SRE teams should test which operational constraints survive.
News
Claude’s Chrome transcripts enter the enterprise audit trail
Anthropic has added Chrome-session transcripts to its Compliance API beta. Responders gain another evidence source, with important gaps to understand.
News
Splunk agent observability: follow the work, then the bill
Splunk’s September release connects agent evaluation and cost monitoring. The useful test is whether a responder can trace spending back to an outcome.
News
OpenTelemetry’s Kubernetes milestone matters for AI agent tracing
The stable Kubernetes attributes processor helps connect AI-agent traces to their workloads. Check the metadata joins before upgrading.
News
Kubernetes Memory QoS: what AI inference teams should test
Memory QoS reaches beta in Kubernetes 1.37. For AI inference teams, the rollout question is how host-memory policy affects serving latency and neighboring workers.
Technology Overviews
Herdr: how to supervise coding agents
Herdr keeps coding agents visible and their terminals persistent. Here is how to evaluate its status signals, recovery behavior, and place in SRE work.
AIOps
What MTTD misses between the alert and the response
Separate detection from response, reconstruct the missing minutes, and find the delays that an improving average can conceal.
AIOps
Production agents: authorize the action, then verify the outcome
Define production-agent authority, reconcile uncertain writes, verify outcomes independently, and use an execution contract before expanding scope.
How-To
OpenTelemetry for SRE: connect the signals that explain a request
Understand instrumentation, context propagation, and the Collector, and why consistent telemetry still needs careful signal design.
How-To
Where SRE and platform engineering need an explicit handoff
A practical ownership model for shared platforms, service reliability, incident command, and the work that falls between teams.
How-To
Postmortem risk treatment: decide what the fix actually proved
Separate delivered postmortem actions from demonstrated risk reduction, close only tested scope, and record residual exposure with a treatment worksheet.