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Tideways 2026.2 Release

Understanding complex request traces is one of the hardest parts of performance analysis. In this Release, we focused on making this significantly easier in Tideways. The Timeline has been redesigned to provide a clearer view of how requests are executed, with new layout modes, improved navigation, and a more consistent span model. These changes help you follow execution order, understand dependencies, and identify performance bottlenecks faster, even in complex applications.

Apache Kafka 4.3.0 Release Announcement

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.3. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent ones. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes. With 25 KIPs and over 600 commits since 4.2.0, this release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes to all the components. See the Upgrading to 4.3 section in the documentation for the list of notable changes and detailed upgrade steps.

Anthropic Acquires Stainless. What's It Mean for AI Connectivity?

Every few months, a frontier AI lab makes a move that says the quiet part out loud: agents are only as useful as the systems they can reach. The latest example is Anthropic's acquisition of Stainless, the company behind the tooling that turns API specs into SDKs and MCP servers. Anthropic's own framing is direct. Agents need to connect to data and tools, and the path from an API to an agent-ready interface needs to get shorter. We agree. We've been making a version of this argument for two years.

WSO2 Accelerates Agentic Enterprise Adoption with New Agent Identity, Forward Deployed Engineers, and Expanded Delivery Partner Ecosystem

London, UK. 21st May 2026 - WSO2 today announced the expansion of its Agent Fabric platform, the introduction of a Forward Deployed Engineering model, and the scaling of its delivery partner ecosystem to accelerate the adoption of the agentic enterprise. Announced at the WSO2Con North America 2026, these initiatives strengthen WSO2's position as the infrastructure layer for the emerging agentic enterprise, where AI agents operate autonomously across applications, APIs, workflows, identities, and data.

Xray Wins Atlassian Marketplace Partner of the Year 2026 for Software Collection Apps

Xray has won the Atlassian Marketplace Partner of the Year 2026: Software Collection Apps, recognizing its continued contribution to the Atlassian Marketplace and its role in supporting software teams with native test management inside Jira. The award was announced in Anaheim during Atlassian Team ’26, as part of the Atlassian Marketplace Partner Awards celebrations recognizing outstanding partners across the Atlassian ecosystem.

Integrate.io Delivers Cloud-Native SharePoint Integration: Write Directly to SharePoint from Your Data Pipeline | March 2026

We're excited to announce a new cloud-native capability that deepens Integrate.io's integration with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. SharePoint is now available as a write destination in the package designer. This release enables data teams to push transformed, pipeline-processed data directly into SharePoint Online libraries and lists through a fully cloud-native, API-first connection.