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51% of Teams Struggle with Automation Skills | How to Overcome QA's Biggest Challenge

Did you know that 51% of teams cite limited skills or experience in test automation as their biggest challenge? This insight from the State of Software Quality 2025 Report reveals a major roadblock to successful test automation across the industry. Teams continue to face difficulties in implementing and scaling automation due to a lack of trained talent. But there is a path forward—through strategic training, team upskilling, and the use of intuitive automation tools.

Introducing BigQuery data engineering agents

BigQuery Data Engineering Agents are here to help data analysts and engineers build faster, and focus more on creative problem-solving. Lucia Subatin shows how these AI-powered agents can save your time from tedious coding, schema mapping, and manual metadata creation Speakers: Lucia Subatin Products Mentioned: AI Infrastructure, BigQuery.

GitHub Copilot: Using AI to build a custom connector with Fivetran's Connector SDK

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a Fivetran Connector SDK custom connector using VS Code and GitHub Copilot. The demo showcases the end-to-end process of creating, testing, and deploying a connector that ingests tobacco problem reports from the openFDA API. What You'll Learn Resources.

Streaming Data at Scale with Strategic Cloud Partners | Life Is But A Stream Podcast

Strategic partnerships don’t work without trust. And in the data streaming world, trust begins with transparency. In this episode, Elena Cuevas, Sr. Manager of Cloud Partner Solutions Engineering at Confluent, joins Joseph Morais to unpack what it takes to collaborate with hyperscalers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. From managing competitive overlaps to future-proofing enterprise data architectures, Elena shares her battle-tested strategies for driving alignment across complex stakeholder ecosystems.

How to Test Your Mainframe With Open Source Tools

In the past, mainframe users have been limited to expensive legacy tools, but today, it's possible to embrace agility, and security with integrating open source tools into the mainframe.Watch this how to video to see how mainframe users can also get on board to achieve superior test coverage, by testing more often, and throughout the whole development cycle.