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In this episode, hosts *Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana* and *Asanka Abeysinghe* explore the lost art of deep work and why it is critical for architects. They discuss how constant interruptions, shallow work, and overreliance on AI shortcuts can undermine clear thinking and architectural quality. The conversation focuses on creating space for focused thinking, applying first principles, and how architects and leaders can protect deep work in today’s noisy enterprise environment.

In this video, we're breaking down the complex world of Apache Kafka and showing you how to gain deep visibility into your event streaming architecture using Speedscale. Kafka is the backbone of modern, cloud-native systems, but understanding what's happening in production—which topics are receiving traffic, where messages are going, and how services are interacting can be a real challenge. We'll cover how Speedscale makes Kafka visualization and debugging simple by.

Join us for an in-depth session, "Build an Enterprise-Grade AI Platform with Kong AI Gateway," where we'll explore how organizations can securely operationalize AI at scale. Discover how Kong AI Gateway unifies APIs and AI services under one platform—enabling centralized governance, cost-efficient observability, and consistent policy enforcement across LLMs, embeddings, and AI workflows. Learn how to accelerate innovation while maintaining compliance and performance through capabilities like prompt introspection, semantic caching, and dynamic routing across private and public AI models.