Steve “ardalis” Smith ✔

Scaling your API strategy isn’t just about building more APIs... it’s about designing them for reuse, visibility, and control. Explore how API-led design supports composable architectures and drives platform-wide agility through lifecycle governance. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gqtUqkc5 #iPaaS #APIArchitecture #ComposableEnterprise

24

Traditional incident response fails in microservices. Learn why, and discover the framework for incident response in microservices architecture with real-world examples.

1

If your dev team isn’t documenting, they’re not building software... they’re building dependency! Lack of documentation doesn’t just slow you down. It locks you in, kills scalability, and makes every handover a nightmare. ✅ Want maintainable code? ✅ Want to scale your team? ✅ Want freedom to grow without bottlenecks? Start with documentation. It’s not optional—it’s foundational. Check out the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ghkmjHh2 #softwaredevelopment #startuplife #techleadership #foundertips #scaleup #productmanagement #devculture #maintainablecode #iS2Digital #iS2

6

Modernization sounds good in theory. But is it possible to modernize without ripping everything out? Not to mention the budget constraints, downtime risks, and resource strain that so often delay critical projects. That delay could carry a hidden cost: reactive maintenance, fragmented systems, downtime, missed visibility, and increased operational risk. That’s exactly the challenge we’re addressing. EnerSys is helping operators take a smarter approach, one that doesn’t just replace what’s aging, but adds intelligence, reduces service risk, and integrates with what’s already in place. With retrofit-ready cabinets, embedded intelligence, and battery systems designed for integration, modernization can become an opportunity to evolve, not just replace. Visit Booth #I1110 at SCTE TechExpo to explore what intelligent modernization really looks like. Upgrade your network, not just your hardware https://bit.ly/41Dzkef #SCTETechExpo #SCTE #Cable #Broadband #Communications #EnerSys

20

Stop paying the MTTR tax. Tool sprawl isn’t a strategy. It’s an architectural failure. Most teams aren’t solving problems during a Tier-0 outage. They’re playing detective across five different screens. Fragmented tools create a "Dashboard Graveyard". The result? Engineers context-switch their way to a million-dollar loss. We helped one of APAC’s largest fintechs: > Cut MTTR by 40%. > Reduce TCO by 30%. > Gain 99.9% visibility across 7,000+ servers. Move from tool sprawl to unified intelligence. Stop hunting. Start resolving. #Observability #FinTech #SRE #Integra

13

🔍 Bringing Visibility and Control to Your Kafka Ecosystem When every millisecond counts, blind spots in your Kafka setup aren’t just technical issues, they’re business risks. At KLogic, we help engineering teams move from reactive firefighting to proactive scaling. Our platform delivers real-time visibility, intelligent alerting, and deep health insights across your brokers, topics, and consumers, all without complex setup. 🚀 Why KLogic? Because 74% of teams discover Kafka issues after production impact, and only 9% have full visibility into what’s really happening inside their clusters. We’re here to change that. ✨ Product Highlights: ⚡ Real-Time Lag Detection — catch bottlenecks before they hit production 🔔 Smart Alerting — know not just what broke, but why 📊 Intuitive Dashboards — visualize your entire Kafka landscape in one view 🤖 Automated Anomaly Detection — let AI flag unusual behavior early 📈 Cluster Health Insights — deep dive into throughput, replication & ISR metrics 🔄 Zero-Config Setup — connect and start monitoring in minutes With KLogic, your Kafka pipelines run smoothly, visibly, and confidently. 👉 https://klogic.io/ #Kafka #Observability #DataStreaming #DevOps #SRE #DataEngineering

6

I tried using Perplexity as my every day carry search engine, but I couldn't stick with it. Too slow. I do a lot of LLM queries (did you know I AI bro?) — but most of the time I'm almost using Google as a quick launcher. I know I want to get somewhere, so throw in a few keywords and hit what I know will be the top link. When I'm doing an LLM search I'm typically doing something more like deep research into something or a comparison. Any LLM based search engine that wants to kill Google is going to need to have a seamless blend of the lightning fast "launcher" style searches, and the deeper research based searches.

13

6 Comments

The IT services grew on the back of headcount growth. The heydays were about the client saying “Send me 2 truckloads of Java please” 😝 While the inflow of $£€ was welcome it created an artificial situation at corporations. - Very young engineers promoted to managers with little training or experience. - Firms becoming impersonal and the human touch disappeared - Entrepreneurial management vanished down the chain. My post here talks about the possibility of AI making a difference to this malady. Can we bring back the small company feel at a large corporation? Can AI help in coaching younger managers? Food for thought for all the HR leaders out there. #PadiHaiwithKG #EntrepreneurManagers #SmallTeams #ImpactofAI

19

3 Comments

Your CI/CD bill is not exploding because of “expensive runners,” it is bleeding out through flaky tests, over-parallelized jobs, and slow feedback loops that quietly tax every deploy This piece shows you how to redesign pipelines so you cut compute waste, shrink queues, and speed up developer flow without adding yet another approval gate or YAML religion Full breakdown in the comments. #DevOps #CICD #PlatformEngineering

8

1 Comment

Why Replit is becoming the new command center for enterprise automation 🚀 The more we work with enterprise teams, the clearer it gets. People don’t want more tools. They want one place where work actually gets done. We see teams running validation scripts, nightly jobs, monitoring checks, and even full automation pipelines inside a single workspace. No environment drift. No juggling tools. No waiting on setup. The browser becomes the control room and momentum builds fast. #Askraa #Replit #Automation #EnterpriseTech #AICoding #Vibecoding

2

Custom Apigee developer portals work. Until you have to keep evolving them. Auth changes. Docs drift. New APIs appear. Ownership never really goes away. Launchpad is a managed developer portal for teams that want stability without constant rebuilds.

1

Looks like ServiceTitan Release #77 is starting to roll out for Spring 2026. While Release #77 appears focused on product and UI updates, it is a good reminder that every major ServiceTitan release creates downstream work for operators, admins, analysts, and integration teams. I published a public ServiceTitan AI-Readiness Reference to help with that layer of work: https://lnkd.in/eNe3FHZD The reference currently covers ST-75/ST-76 API impact notes, tenant architecture, pricebook gotchas, Form 2.0 JSON behavior, dispatch/capacity logic, phone attribution, CRM deduplication, CSR scoring, and common operational failure modes. The goal is to give LLMs, RAG systems, internal agents, and integration teams cleaner context for reasoning about ServiceTitan. Next step: review Release #77 from the operator/admin side and add practical impact notes where the UI changes affect workflows, reporting, configuration, or automation. Discord discussion: https://lnkd.in/ebWEkdTE Not official ServiceTitan documentation. Community technical notes from live operational work and API testing. #ServiceTitan #Automations #AI #Automation #RAG #Operations ```

2

1 Comment

With .NET 10, you can just create an app.cs file and run it—no setup required. See it in action.

137

8 Comments

PART 2 🚀🚀: I wrote bullet points as I gathered my thoughts for a client... and then I realized they might be helpful for other mid size co's. Let me know if I can expand on anything. Today... research function and software engineering teams.

6

Dev Leaders, govern your codebase like a boss: Your org runs three strategic initiatives at once: API standardization, cloud migration, security compliance, but none of them are connected to what actually gets enforced in code. Pandorian lets you link guidelines to org priorities, so every PR and scan maps back to the initiatives your leadership cares about.   Read the Blog: https://lnkd.in/dTxTjgG4   #AICode #GenerativeAI #SoftwareQuality #EngineeringCulture #Pandorian #Codingstandards

8

Reactive SRE will always be expensive. Here's why. The cost isn't just downtime. It's the engineering hours spent on alert triage, log parsing, and manual investigation -- work that never ends because the model never changes. Faster tools, better runbooks, smarter alerts -- these optimize the fire department. They don't stop the fires and the firefighting tax stays. Proactive SRE changes the economics entirely. Fewer incidents, engineers who can actually build, and infrastructure that gets more resilient over time -- not just better at recovering. For the first time, AI makes this shift genuinely possible. The question isn't whether to move from reactive to proactive. It's when. Full breakdown at the blog in the comments.

54

3 Comments

Who needs self-service? In this article, Conduktor’s VP of Engineering, Matt Searle, talks about his own experiences attempting to balance developer autonomy alongside platform stability. His key insight? Govern Kafka, or risk havoc. Read his latest blog—and learn more about how Conduktor can help you implement self-service with guardrails. https://lnkd.in/ejWTRctu

14

In this new video tutorial, Global Payment's Senior Software Developer Tony Smedal covers the complete configuration process including: 🔵 Extension activation 🔵 API key integration 🔵 Test transaction setup 🔵 Production deployment. This tutorial skips the installation basics and jumps straight into the configuration workflow (perfect for devs who need to get payment processing live quickly). Whether working on client sites or internal projects, this video covers the core setup process from development to go-live: https://bit.ly/3Gp9VgO

5