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In the evolving landscape of agentic systems, Confluent and Google Cloud together emerge as critical enablers, providing the real-time infrastructure that underpins efficient, reliable, and intelligent data flow. This powerful synergy addresses key challenges in agent-to-agent (A2A) communication, interaction with external resources, and the overall stability and observability of complex multi-agent environments.

That’s a wrap on API Summit 2025! At our eighth annual event, the brightest minds in the worlds of APIs and AI gathered in New York City to define the next chapter of digital innovation. We're entering an era where APIs are not just connecting services but connecting intelligence. APIs are the neural pathways of this new AI world, where agents will reason, act, and collaborate through endpoints. At this year's API Summit, we saw how quickly this vision is becoming reality.

Summarize with AI: ChatGPT Claude Google AI Mode Grok Perplexity In today’s data-driven world, business intelligence and analytics play a huge role in better understanding your customers, improving your operations, and making actionable business decisions. While there’s no doubt about the value of implementing a BI solution, many ERP users face the same challenges around the quality and credibility of their data.

As a developer, when you think about CI/CD, you probably focus on build times, test results, and deployment pipelines. The infrastructure powering those builds? It's invisible (unless something goes wrong!). At Bitrise, we've spent 10 years refining infrastructure decisions that most developers never see. In this post, we are pulling back the curtain on the infrastructure choices we've made and why they matter for reliability, consistency, and performance.

When managing Docker containers, effective logging is essential for troubleshooting, monitoring, and ensuring compliance. Mismanaged logs can lead to disk space issues, performance bottlenecks, and lost diagnostic data. Here's a quick breakdown of what you need to know: Choose the right logging driver: Options include json-file (default), syslog, journald, fluentd, and none. Each has unique benefits depending on storage, performance, and integration needs.

APIs and AI are on a collision course. For decades, APIs have been the foundation of digital reliability: deterministic systems where you send a request, get a predictable response, and trust that what’s defined is what will happen. AI doesn’t play by those rules. Large language models and AI agents operate in probabilities. They don’t just follow contracts; they interpret them. They learn, infer, and sometimes hallucinate.

Your CEO just announced the company’s AI-first strategy and the product team is shipping AI features faster than ever. Marketing is promising intelligent automation to customers, while the QA team is left wondering how to actually test this stuff. Every QA team is grappling with the same challenge as AI becomes the default solution for everything from customer service to content generation.

Software teams today face increasing pressure to deliver high-quality applications at speed. Continuous testing, test automation, and traceability are no longer optional — they’re must-haves for scaling development. Tools like Xray provide the structure and visibility teams need, but their success ultimately depends on how effectively people use them. That’s where Xray Academy comes in.

Testing database-driven applications is notoriously painful. If your app depends on MySQL, you’ve probably spent hours setting up local databases, running migrations, loading data, and then cleaning everything up just to rerun your tests. This repetitive cycle slows development, breaks pipelines, and introduces inconsistency between local and production environments.