The RBAC Reality Check for AI in Platform Engineering | Corey McGalliard, Akamai Cloud | TFiR AI agents in Kubernetes require scoped RBAC and policy as code before write access. Corey McGalliard, Akamai ... By Monika ChauhanJuly 9, 2026 Cloud Native
The Hidden Drivers of AI Inference Costs and How to Architect for Cost Control | Ari Weil, Akamai | TFiR AI inference costs spiral in production through egress fees and cross-zone charges. Ari Weil, VP Product Marketing ... By Monika ChauhanJuly 9, 2026 AI Infrastructure
How to Balance Cost and Performance in Your High Availability Strategy | Matthew Pollard, SIOS Technology | TFiR Matthew Pollard of SIOS Technology explains why both over-engineering and underfunding high availability strategies lead to avoidable ... By Monika ChauhanJuly 8, 2026
90% of AI Agent Latency Isn’t the GPU | Jon Alexander, Akamai Agentic AI loops compound latency exponentially in centralized cloud. Jon Alexander of Akamai explains why distributed inference ... By Monika ChauhanJuly 8, 2026 AI Infrastructure
Why HA Environments Fail When It Matters Most and How to Test Before They Do | Cassius Rhue, SIOS Technology | TFiR Cassius Rhue of SIOS Technology explains how configuration drift, mismatched packages, and hard-coded client IPs silently break ... By Monika ChauhanJuly 7, 2026
Why Centralized AI Inference Fails at Scale and How Distributed Edge Infrastructure Fixes It | Dr. Robert Blumofe, Akamai | TFiR Dr. Robert Blumofe, CTO at Akamai, explains why centralized GPU clusters cannot serve ubiquitous AI agent demand, ... By Monika ChauhanJuly 7, 2026 AI Infrastructure
Why API Discovery Comes Before API Security | Steve Winterfeld, Akamai | TFiR Akamai Advisory CISO Steve Winterfeld explains why API discovery must come first, how rogue and zombie APIs ... By Monika ChauhanJuly 6, 2026 Security
Why AI Compounds Cloud Cost Problems and How Java Runtime Tuning Fixes It | Peter Maloney, Azul | TFiR Peter Maloney, CFO and COO at Azul, explains why AI compounds unoptimized cloud costs, why phase one ... By Monika ChauhanJuly 6, 2026 AI Infrastructure
Why SBOMs Miss Your Riskiest Java Runtimes and What to Do About It | Simon Ritter, Azul | TFiR AI models can produce working Java exploits in under 19 minutes. Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO at Azul, ... By Monika ChauhanJuly 3, 2026 Security
Why Unmanaged AI Agents on Developer Laptops Are an Enterprise Security Crisis | Miska Kaipiainen, Mirantis | TFiR Miska Kaipiainen of Mirantis Lens explains why AI coding agents running on developer laptops are an immediate ... By Monika ChauhanJuly 3, 2026