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How we built an AI-first culture at Ably

Most companies talk about being “AI-first.” At Ably, we decided to actually become one. We build realtime infrastructure for AI applications. To do that credibly, we need to live and breathe AI ourselves – not just in our product, but in how we work every day. Two years ago, we began a company-wide push for AI adoption.

Top 11 Test reporting tools

Let’s be real for a moment. Modern engineering teams run so many automated test cases every day across CI/CD pipelines. Still, without the right visibility, those results are just noisy logs sitting inside Jenkins or GitHub Actions. This is exactly why test reporting tools have become a critical part of every serious QA, DevOps, and automation workflow.

Why Quality Assurance Matters for Digital Wallets

Digital wallets started as simple payment tools. Today, they do much more. They support P2P payments, merchant transactions, loyalty programs, identity services, transit use cases and embedded financial services. Reports from McKinsey, Deloitte and Worldpay show strong growth in digital wallet usage. Wallets now power a large share of global e-commerce and POS transactions. Adoption is rising in both developed and emerging markets. Many organisations can launch a wallet fast. Scaling it is harder.

From Design to Deployed: Introducing the Figma Plugin for Sauce Visual for Pixel-Perfect Releases

Bridge the disconnect between design and development. The new Figma plugin for Sauce Visual automates baseline creation, enables shift-left testing, and guarantees visual consistency with your approved Figma designs.

How to Build a Custom Kafka Connector - A Comprehensive Guide

In today’s data-driven world, seamless data integration is crucial to ensuring the smooth operation of modern systems. With the growing complexity of distributed data platforms, businesses and developers are seeking efficient ways to move, process, and transform data. Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for real-time data streaming, and Kafka Connect plays a key role in facilitating the integration of Kafka with various data sources and sinks.

How to Turn SQL Server Stored Procedures into REST APIs: Complete Guide

Enterprises have invested decades of development effort into SQL Server stored procedures. These procedures contain critical business logic—validation rules, complex calculations, transaction handling, reporting queries—that applications need to access. But stored procedures weren't designed for modern API-driven architectures.

The new Ably dashboard: understand your realtime system in motion

When you’re building realtime systems, blind spots slow you down. The new dashboard gives developers self-serve visibility into everything happening inside their apps, from high-level usage to individual connections, channels and messages. No setup. No external tools. Just open your browser and observe your data in motion.

AI in State and Local Government: Impact Starts with Process, Not Hype

Why “standalone AI” falls short AI works best when embedded in a process Guardrails are not a limitation—they’re an enabler Process-driven AI in action How leaders should be thinking about AI now Artificial intelligence is no longer optional in state and local government—it’s essential for meeting public expectations amid staffing shortages and budget constraints. AI is showing up across agencies and programs.