I host two podcasts, Software Engineering Daily and Software Huddle, and often appear as a guest on other shows. Promoting episodes—whether I’m hosting or featured—helps highlight the great conversations I have, but finding the time to craft a thoughtful LinkedIn post for each one is tough. Between hosting, work, and life, sitting down to craft a thoughtful LinkedIn post for every episode just doesn’t always happen.

The emergence and growing adoption of generative AI and the agreement to and implementation of the EU AI Act uncannily coincided. These two factors have catalyzed an AI renaissance within many enterprises. Yes, companies were already applying AI here and there across their organizations — but responding to the impact of these two exogenous forces required a whole new way of thinking and doing. All of a sudden, all eyes were on AI.

Neglecting data privacy in your business is like forgetting to lock your house doors and then leaving the country to enjoy your holidays. Sooner or later, someone will take advantage and break in. Similarly, if your business collects, stores, and analyzes customer data on a daily basis but neglects data privacy and security, you’re immediately exposed to several risks and large legal penalties. And in the process, you’ll experience financial loss and lose the trust of your customers.

Imagine you're an IT administrator managing sprawling hybrid cloud workloads and infrastructure with multiple service catalogs, each requiring meticulous attention to detail and manual analytic and administrative effort. Your team is constantly juggling between different tools, struggling with infrastructure observability and management productivity, facing challenges optimizing costs and gaining actionable insights.

FLIP-304 gives you the power to transform how failures are handled in Apache Flink. With custom failure enrichers, you can tag and classify errors, integrate enriched data with monitoring tools, and quickly identify root causes. Failures in distributed systems are inevitable, but managing them effectively makes all the difference. Enter FLIP-304: Pluggable Failure Enrichers, an upgrade that helps turn confusion into actionable insights.

When it comes to leveraging AI to capture business value, it’s worth asking, “what kind of AI do we need exactly?” There are significant differences between the methodologies collectively referred to as AI. While 2024 might have almost convinced us that gen AI is the end-all-be-all, there is also what’s sometimes called ‘traditional’ AI, deep learning, and much more.

If you’re relying on JasperReports or Crystal Reports to power your data reporting and insights, you’ve likely heard the news: many popular versions are reaching end-of-life, and it’s time to start planning your next steps. Keeping up with your reporting solution’s end-of-life dates aren’t just about deadlines—it’s about ensuring your organization’s reporting capabilities remain reliable, secure, and future-proof.