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Software teams today are routinely under pressure to release features more quickly, while keeping quality in check, in today’s fast-paced digital ecosystem. Automation testing enables teams to develop this balance; however, most teams find that writing and maintaining test scripts becomes a heavy burden with technical complexity, and takes time away from building features. This is where a Test Recorder is of great assistance.

Is your artificial intelligence (AI) underperforming? You're not alone. Stale, fragmented data is a leading obstacle to optimal AI performance. Outdated information cripples your decision-making, fuels operational inefficiencies, and leads to missed opportunities—from slow fraud detection to irrelevant chatbot responses. AI’s rapid evolution makes real-time data even more critical: That’s why real-time data streaming isn’t merely an option.

The Kubernetes networking landscape is evolving, and recent announcements confirm a significant community shift. The Kubernetes community recently announced the upcoming retirement of one of its most widely used components: Ingress NGINX "To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026.

BigQuery managed AI functions let you use generative AI for common analytical tasks within SQL queries, without complex prompt tuning or new tools.

The new MATCH_RECOGNIZE feature in BigQuery allows you to perform complex pattern matching on your data directly within your SQL queries.

In less than 20 years, mobile apps have grown from a bright new idea to a cornerstone of our daily lives. And while Android accounts for the lion’s share of the market, iOS usage continues to grow exponentially: in 2024 alone, iOS apps and games were downloaded around 35 billion times. The Apple App Store is both a shop window and a marketplace for this global industry. But as iOS developers, how do we actually submit a mobile app to the store?

The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Integration Software Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc, October 2025) notes, “Qlik delivers a comprehensive, cloud-agnostic data integration platform that spans real-time ingestion and replication, batch ETL/ELT, data quality, data productization, and governed self-service access for analytics and AI.” In the past, data integration was largely about moving information from A to B: ingestion, transformation, loading.

Combine your data with generative AI to analyze and improve customer experience.

Quality assurance has always been about balance, ensuring every scenario is covered without drowning teams in complexity. Yet, as systems grow and requirements multiply, keeping up with coverage demands has become one of the hardest parts of modern QA. That’s where AI-powered test model generation steps in, not to take over, but to amplify how testers design, visualize, and expand coverage.

At Confluent, we've been talking to customers about Streaming Agents—intelligent systems that work in the background responding to system events instead of to human chat inputs. The key question has been: What triggers these events? The signals have to be of high quality for an agent to act on since feeding raw events to an agent can be wasteful and overwhelming. A powerful pattern has emerged: agentic investigation and remediation of anomalies.