How to Track AI Token Costs Before They Hit the Budget | Raja Mukhopadhyay, Splunk Observability | TFiR Raja Mukhopadhyay explains how Splunk Tokenomics delivers real-time AI token spend visibility across every organizational level, how ... By Monika ChauhanSeptember 25, 2026 AI Infrastructure
Should You Send Proprietary Data to Frontier AI Labs? | Mario Moscatiello, Airbyte | TFiR Mario Moscatiello of Airbyte explains why companies across regulated and non-regulated industries are choosing on-premises data pipelines ... By Monika ChauhanSeptember 23, 2026 AI Infrastructure
When Does AI Inference Have to Be Distributed? | Jon Alexander, Akamai | TFiR Jon Alexander of Akamai breaks down which AI inference workloads require distributed deployment and which can safely ... By Monika ChauhanSeptember 15, 2026 AI Infrastructure
How Retailers Should Prepare Security for Peak Shopping Season | Steve Winterfeld, Akamai | TFiR Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO at Akamai, walks through the security checklist retail teams need before major shopping ... By Monika ChauhanSeptember 14, 2026 Security
Edge AI Inference: The Last-Mile Problem Centralized Clouds Cannot Solve | Ari Weil, Akamai | TFiR Ari Weil of Akamai explains why centralized GPU clusters cannot meet the latency demands of fraud detection, ... By Monika ChauhanSeptember 1, 2026 AI Infrastructure
How AI-Assisted IoT Botnets Are Driving Retail DDoS Attacks | Steve Winterfeld, Akamai | TFiR Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO at Akamai, explains why retail absorbs 84% of commerce DDoS attacks, how Turbo ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 31, 2026 Security
Why AI Infrastructure Governance Fails Without Policy as Code | Jonah Kowall, Spacelift | TFiR Jonah Kowall of Spacelift unpacks why 93% of companies had an AI infrastructure incident this year despite ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 25, 2026 AI Infrastructure
What Actually Slows AI Agents: CPU vs GPU Placement | Jon Alexander, Akamai | TFiR Jon Alexander of Akamai explains why up to 90% of AI agent task execution time happens ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 25, 2026 AI Infrastructure
Why Mobile Observability Fails at Scale and How Edge Telemetry Fixes It | Peter Morelli, bitdrift | TFiR Peter Morelli, CEO of bitdrift, explains why server-side observability architectures fail on mobile, how on-device ring buffers ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 19, 2026 AI Infrastructure
AI Agent Latency Compounds on Every Loop: The Case for Distributed Inference | Jon Alexander, Akamai | TFiR Jon Alexander of Akamai explains why centralized cloud compounds latency across agentic AI inference loops, why physical ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 17, 2026 AI Infrastructure