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Scrolling through the build log to find what caused your CI pipeline to fail isn’t fun. Or even spending hours inventing custom logic to automate workflows based on who triggered a build or what files changed? There might be a better solution. Enhanced Environment Variables have recently arrived – a suite of new variables designed to give you better control over Bitrise CI.

Imagine that you have built an Apache Flink job. It collects records from Apache Kafka, performs a time-based aggregation on those records, and emits a new record to a different topic. With your excitement high, you run the job for the first time, and are disappointed to discover that nothing happens. You check the input topic and see the data flowing, but when you look at the output topic, it’s empty. In many cases, this is an indication that there is a problem with watermarks.

Data is one of a company’s most valuable assets. Its value is often limited, however, by the challenge of sharing it across organizational boundaries in a secure, reliable, and scalable way. Traditional approaches to inter-organizational data sharing have contributed to this. Flat file sharing, API calls, and proprietary solutions all pose different challenges, from security concerns to scalability and development burden.

Webpack has long been the dominant player in the JavaScript web bundler landscape. Over time, many competitors have gradually entered the arena, each offering unique features and improved performance. Among these newcomers, Rspack stands out with its innovative approach to web application bundling. Leveraging a Rust core, it provides high-speed, multithreaded code splitting.

Authentication is a critical element of any web application. The Ruby on Rails ecosystem has no shortage of solutions for this topic, as no authentication layer has been backed into the framework yet. Devise is a crowd favorite. Although it has ended up as the de-facto standard and sports many built-in features and great plugins (such as integrations with NoSQL databases, encryption, roles, and UID support), it works as a separate entity from your application.

Starting today, you might notice something different from us. A bold new look. A fresher voice. A clear message: Do Data Differently. It’s how we see the world, and how we want the world to see us. Because let’s face it: the pressure on businesses to move faster, cut through complexity, and act with confidence has never been higher.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly becoming the connective tissue for agentic AI systems and IDE tooling. Whether you’re building a dev tool that integrates with LLMs or enabling a context-aware API backend, standing up an MCP server is a rite of passage. But MCP is still in its early days and there are some sharp edges. Here are four practical shortcuts to fast-track your MCP server development so you can skip the boilerplate and get to the good stuff: intelligent tooling.

Oracle recently published the release notes for Oracle Cloud’s 25B release, which will be available in late April. That means you only have a few weeks to get your test plan in place to ensure new features don’t impact your existing customizations or integrations. This release introduces several significant updates that will benefit your Oracle users, including Project Cost Distribution using available award funding and managing roles in Custom OAuth Apps.

Sometimes teams avoid introducing more tests (particularly UI tests) because they fear slowing down their CI pipeline. Should you have to sacrifice software quality for the sake of fast cycle times? Absolutely not. So, how can you introduce more tests without slowing down your CI pipeline? The answer: employ test sharding. In this post, we’ll dive into what test sharding is and why you should consider it.

APIs are the lifeblood of disruption. . . when leveraged correctly. The best, most disruptive businesses are able to harness API growth as a strategic opportunity. But how? With an API platform that drives innovation, faster delivery, and top-tier customer experiences alongside a top-notch developer experience. To that end, the Kong Konnect team has been busy executing against these goals in the new year.