• Agentic Testing: Where Agents Fit in the E2E Testing Stack: Slack tries e2e testing using agents given outcomes and freedom to explore the application vs discrete steps to get there. Agents still fail, they get to the goals more often than not, they don’t often take the same path twice, and they’re expensive.
  • Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale: James Hamilton talks about better datacenter networking using flat networks ( ie a flattening of the switch hierarchy we see in most datacenters these days) and random interconnects / path planning.