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Retired sportswriter, born in the '50s, grew up in the '60s, everything else is gravy. Man, woman, person, camera, TV. What do I win?
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Splunk Observability at .conf26: Optimize AI at Scale

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By Dave Hickman
| splk.it
Observability Key takeaways Maximize infrastructure resilience - Splunk Observability helps you make your whole tech stack work for AI — see AI stack performance, isolate app vs. network issues fast, and rank problems by business impact. Monitor agent behavior and optimize tokenomics - Splunk gives you the ability to scale AI agents safely —evaluate agent quality, block hallucinations and unsafe actions at runtime, and attribute every token before it hits an invoice.
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Stop searching for the perfect job candidate and look for this instead Original

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By Dave Hickman
| Columbia Daily Tribune Verified
There is a job posting that has been open for months. The description is detailed and specific. It lists required skills, preferred qualifications, years of experience and software proficiencies. Candidates apply, but none quite match what the posting describes. The hiring team is disappointed a good candidate doesn't seem to be surfacing, but they forge ahead with the search. Meanwhile, the rest of the team absorbs the workload of the vacant position. The trouble here isn't the candidates.
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Simplify Observability with New AI Insights and Unified Enhancements from AppDynamics

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By Dave Hickman
| Splunk (Blog)
You know that feeling when everything looks fine—until it isn’t? The dashboards are green, the alerts are quiet, and then suddenly something breaks, and you’re left piecing together fragments from a dozen systems to figure out why. We’ve all been there. Modern systems are powerful, distributed, and, let’s be honest, a little bit chaotic. Observability has never been more critical—or more complex.
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