John Pietro Pugliesihttps://johnpietro.com/I’m a keyboard jokey. Mostly the qwerty and musical types. I’m currently building stuff at Firetiger. I live in the Bay Area.en2026 John Pietro PugliesiMon, 10 Aug 2026 09:39:13 -0700If AI Accelerates Your Software Factory, Where’s the ROI?https://johnpietro.com/content/if-ai-accelerates-your-software-factory-wheres-the-roi/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:39:13 -0700https://johnpietro.com/content/if-ai-accelerates-your-software-factory-wheres-the-roi/AI coding agents are poised to automate much of the software and product development lifecycle. Meanwhile, business's and the broader Market are still trying to understand: Where is the ROI?NXL: A Declarative Language for Agentshttps://blog.firetiger.com/nxl-a-declarative-language-for-agents/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:10:16 -0700https://blog.firetiger.com/nxl-a-declarative-language-for-agents/A domain specific language for building agents as structured graphs.Firetiger Service Monitors: continuous improvement for your entire applicationhttps://blog.firetiger.com/firetiger-service-monitors-continuous-improvement-for-your-entire-application/Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:43:52 -0700https://blog.firetiger.com/firetiger-service-monitors-continuous-improvement-for-your-entire-application/Firetiger's attempt to automate the Site Reliability Engineering Handbook's best practicesHow Firetiger built secure agent-to-database connectivity with Tailscalehttps://tailscale.com/customers/firetigerTue, 05 May 2026 10:44:04 -0700https://tailscale.com/customers/firetigerA Tailscale case study about making private network connectivity self-serve for Firetiger customers.We built an observability database for agents, not humanshttps://blog.firetiger.com/we-built-an-observability-database-for-agents-not-humans/Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:39:48 -0700https://blog.firetiger.com/we-built-an-observability-database-for-agents-not-humans/System design!Networking with Agents: How to Put Them in the Right Conversationshttps://blog.firetiger.com/networking-with-agents-how-to-put-them-in-the-right-conversations/Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:07:59 -0700https://blog.firetiger.com/networking-with-agents-how-to-put-them-in-the-right-conversations/How Firetiger built our 'Network Transports' feature, allowing agents to securely connect to private databases and other systems.Firetiger Database Agents make your database better, faster, and strongerhttps://blog.firetiger.com/firetiger-database-agents-make-your-database-better-faster-and-stronger/Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:39:45 -0800https://blog.firetiger.com/firetiger-database-agents-make-your-database-better-faster-and-stronger/Introducing Firetiger's database agents for finding and fixing database issues.