Blog posts on Operations
Operations blog posts(12)
Your next SRE might be a machine
Control is concentrating at the point of intent: prompts, tokens, and routing. The architecture challenge is defining where AI can act, when it must defer, and how to reverse.
By Lori Mac Vittie
The secret to scaling AI is overcoming Conway’s Law
AI won’t scale by itself. Without a unified control plane that collapses tooling and ownership boundaries, inference becomes the most brittle and coordination-heavy tier.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Inference is now the center of operational gravity
Multi-model operations and API-driven automation push control to inference-time layers—prompt, token/control, routing, and moderation—where cost, risk, and performance must be managed.
By Lori Mac Vittie
The new hybrid multicloud challenge is operating without an app delivery and security platform
Enterprises aren’t leaving on-prem—they’re modernizing it. As portfolios stay mixed, app delivery and security must shift from environment-specific features to a unified platform.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Compression isn’t about speed anymore, it’s about the cost of thinking
In the AI era, compression reduces the cost of thinking—not just bandwidth. Learn how prompt, output, and model compression control expenses in AI inference.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Programmability is the only way control survives at AI scale
Learn why data and control plane programmability are crucial for scaling and securing AI-driven systems, ensuring real-time control in a fast-changing environment.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Multicloud chaos ends at the Equinix Edge with F5 Distributed Cloud CE
Simplify multicloud security with Equinix and F5 Distributed Cloud CE. Centralize your perimeter, reduce costs, and enhance performance with edge-driven WAAP.
By Lori Mac Vittie
When Complexity Becomes the Enemy: How Operational Workflow Sprawl Threatens Performance and Delivery
Explore how operational workflow complexity threatens uptime, resilience, and delivery, and why simplifying processes is key to modern app infrastructure.
By Lori Mac Vittie
Context Is the New Perimeter: Governing AI Agents with Programmable Application Delivery
AI agents carry context with every request—but drift, bloat, and stale policies threaten reliability. Learn how programmable delivery can enforce cognitive hygiene.
By Lori Mac Vittie
AI Agents Moving Decision-Making Up the Stack
AI agents move decision-making into requests, redefining infrastructure. Learn how to prepare for runtime delegation with policy-first, intent-aware systems.
By Lori Mac Vittie
AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: Understanding the Difference
Discover the key differences between AI agents and agentic AI. Learn how these distinct approaches to automation and intelligence are shaping the future of technology.
By Lori Mac Vittie
How F5 NGINX One Helps Network Operations Teams Manage Increasing Complexity
Empower NetOps teams to simplify network complexity, accelerate deployments, enhance security, and improve visibility across multicloud environments with F5 NGINX One.
By Karthik Krishnaswamy