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In today’s fast-paced financial services landscape, customers have a shorter attention span than ever. To meet clients’ growing demands for real-time access to information and keep innovating in areas like fraud detection and personalized financial advice, Thrivent needed to overhaul its data infrastructure. With data scattered across siloed legacy systems, diverse tech stacks, and multiple cloud environments, the challenge was a bit daunting. But by adopting Confluent Cloud, Thrivent was able to unify its disparate data systems into a single source of truth.

Is it better to launch fast or wait for perfection? @Saurabh Shanbhag explains the "fail fast" strategy, where teams quickly release imperfect products to get real customer feedback and improve. Instead of taking years to perfect, they launch in months, see what works, and adjust from there. This approach helps companies adapt, find market fit, and build better products based on actual user insights.

Can engineers ever guarantee that nothing will break? @Saurabh Shanbhag explains why unexpected failures are always possible in today’s interconnected tech world. The key is to control what you can and collaborate to build resilient systems. Here’s how to approach it: Watch this episode of Test Case Scenario to learn more about building reliable systems.

Explore how the Sauce Labs and Deque integration empowers you to achieve digital inclusion and ensure compliance with accessibility standards.

In this video, we provide an in-depth guide to configuring and using Longview's Single Sign-On (SSO) service. You'll learn about the different authentication workflows such as SAML, OpenID, and OAuth, and how to set up Longview SSO to streamline access across multiple applications. Whether you're configuring SSO for the first time or enhancing security within your organization, this video walks you through each step of the process.

With the Appian Platform, banks can automate and manage payment investigation processes, from queries to payment failures to reconciliation exceptions and compensation processing. With simple customization, faster delivery, and a future-proofed upgrade path—Appian’s AI process automation platform revolutionizes payment investigations. Watch the demo to learn more about how Appian can make your payment processes seamless.

See how long it takes for the exact same test steps — covering a login flow for Wikipedia — to be created in Rainforest vs. Playwright. Using Rainforest's no-code platform is up to 3x faster than using an open source framework like Playwright to automate end-to-end tests.

Is catching bugs before production really possible? @Saurabh Shanbhag from @DoorDash shares insights on how minimizing bugs is a team effort and not just the responsibility of engineers or QA testers. Collaboration across roles is key to ensuring product reliability. Here’s how teams can prevent issues before launch: Watch this episode of Test Case Scenario to learn more about bug prevention strategies that actually work.

Paul Meighan, Director of Product Management at AWS, shares how enterprises are increasingly looking for ways to integrate more data sources in their environment — especially with data lakes. From turning S3 buckets into databases to establishing better metadata layers, Meighan explores the rapid evolution of data lakes alongside data warehouses. He also explains the pivotal role AI, ML and GenAI workloads and applications will play in large metadata environments, driving innovative analytics and business insights.

In this video, Miko Bautista, Staff Product Manager at Kong, introduces the Kong Konnect Service Catalog, your ultimate system of record for managing and discovering all the services and APIs running in your infrastructure. The Kong Konnect Service Catalog helps platform teams gain comprehensive visibility into their entire service ecosystem, whether APIs are powered by Kong Gateway or external systems like AWS API Gateway, Kubernetes, or serverless architectures.