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Tariff Pain from a Data Point of View

If you’re in procurement, finance, or operations at a mid-sized ecommerce or retail company, tariffs aren’t just a political talking point - they’re a silent force eating into your profitability. And the real problem isn’t always the tariffs themselves. It’s the lag between policy changes and when your data catches up. If any of it sounds familiar, we’d love to hear your point of view in the short survey below.

Marketing is hard. It's ok to take a break. #marketinglife

Kyle Lacy, CMO at ​@DoceboLMS ⁩, gets real: Marketing isn’t just ads and campaigns. It’s constant context switching, decision fatigue, and pressure from all sides. And that’s why burnout is real. Raise your hand. Take a break. We’re in this together. Databox is Modern BI for teams that need answers now. It offers the best of BI, without the complicated setup, steep price, or long learning curve.

Performance Testing in Agile: Optimizing Workflows with Xray

Today, users expect software to be not only functional but also fast, reliable, and scalable. And that’s where performance testing comes in. It focuses on evaluating how an application behaves under expected or extreme workloads. Traditionally, performance testing was reserved for the final stages of development. But with the rise of Agile and DevOps, this approach no longer fits.

Accelerate Gradle testing on Bitrise: Test Distribution private beta now open

We’re excited to announce the launch of our Gradle Test Distribution private beta on Bitrise. Starting today, Bitrise users can contact us to join the program and dramatically speed up Gradle test execution through scalable, parallel test distribution. This release is a major step forward for Android teams with large test suites and growing complexity. By hosting the Bitrise Build Cache, Test Distribution workers, and CI runners within the same data center fabric, we’re able to offer.

Announcing the Confluent Cloud Fully Managed Sink Connector for ClickHouse

Data is in motion, and it’s moving faster than ever. For developers and data architects building modern real-time data platforms, the ability to get data from anywhere and analyze it instantly is a superpower. That’s why we’re excited to announce a major step forward in this journey: the fully managed sink connector for Clickhouse, now generally available on Confluent Cloud.

How Confluent Helps Software Providers Build Real-Time Products and SaaS Faster

Bringing real-time capabilities to your product or software-as-a-service (SaaS) is no longer a nice-to-have; it’s a competitive necessity. Whether you're building a real-time payment platform, a patient monitoring system, or any product where instant data processing fuels great user experiences and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven innovation, Apache Kafka data streaming is likely at the core.

Build Smarter, Deliver Faster-AI Innovation with an Internal Developer Platform

Today’s enterprises face increasing demands to rapidly deliver intelligent, cloud-native applications while ensuring strong security and governance. However, complex modern architectures, fragmented workflows, and manual processes often slow innovation and delay delivery. In this webinar, discover how Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) can transform your development lifecycle by: We’ll also introduce Choreo, an AI-native internal developer platform as a service, designed to provide a unified interface for platform engineering and software development teams to build smarter and deliver faster.

Iceberg 101: Better Data Lakes with Apache Iceberg

With growing data volumes, organizations are forced to rethink how they store and manage data. Traditional data warehouses, while powerful, became expensive and rigid when faced with the volume, variety, and velocity of modern data - leading to the rise of data lakes as a promising alternative. However, organizations soon found that data lake in themselves were not a panacea, and often provided limited utility due to their unstructured nature.

If an AI Agent Can't Find You, You Don't Exist

In 2025, the most important customer for your API isn’t a developer scrolling through documentation at 2 AM. It’s an AI agent making split-second decisions about which services to integrate, recommend, or build upon. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: if an AI agent can’t find you, you don’t exist. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s the new reality of how software will get built, integrated, and scaled in an AI-first world.