Kushagra Sharma's Blog Posts

Kushagra Sharma is a Product Manager at Cisco working on AIOps products that help teams operate complex systems with intelligence and scale. He focuses on translating customer problems into practical, data-driven solutions at the intersection of AI, reliability, and software platforms. Passionate about clear thinking and strong product craft, Kushagra writes to share insights on technology, product strategy, and building systems that actually work in the real world.

What's Dogfooding? AKA Drinking Your Own Champagne, or Eating Your Own Ice Cream
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What's Dogfooding? AKA Drinking Your Own Champagne, or Eating Your Own Ice Cream

This article takes a deep look at the history, benefits, challenges, and language of dogfooding, the practice of using your own software/products.
Infrastructure Management & Lifecycle Explained
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Infrastructure Management & Lifecycle Explained

Managing your IT infrastructure is a critical aspect of your business, even if you don't think it is. See how a 4-phase approach covers the entire span of the infrastructure management practice.
Modeling and Unifying DevOps Data Part 3: Pipelines
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Modeling and Unifying DevOps Data Part 3: Pipelines

In this third post of a series devoted to modeling DevOps data into a common set of mappings, Splunker Jeremy Hicks explores the Software Pipelines and their commonalities across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Meet the Splunktern: Sophie Chu Sung
Splunk Life
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Meet the Splunktern: Sophie Chu Sung

In this installment of our 'Meet the Splunktern' series, we're featuring Sophie Chu, a Product Manager Intern in Santana Row.
Dealing With Unintended Complexity: Tips from an Analyst
Cto Stack
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Dealing With Unintended Complexity: Tips from an Analyst

Nothing can prevent complexity, but your mitigation approach can prevent it jeopardizing business resilience.
How To Investigate a Reported Problem
Observability
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How To Investigate a Reported Problem

Learn how to isolate the root cause of incidents using Splunk Observability Cloud.