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Tableau MCP vs. Databox MCP: Enterprise Control vs. AI-Native Speed

Jan 21, 2026 By Alexander B. Pavlinek In Databox
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is reshaping business intelligence. It provides the technical standard for a new class of generative BI tools that let you talk to your data. The engine behind this revolution is the MCP server—the essential component that connects AI models (like Claude or Cursor) to a company’s data. This article examines Tableau’s official MCP server vs. Databox MCP to help you decide between a traditional BI add-on and an AI-native headless platform.
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Activation is broken: why most SaaS teams get it wrong and how to fix it

Jan 21, 2026 By Špela Jurič In Databox
If activation feels fuzzy in your company, you’re not alone. In fact, Rodrigo Fernandez has seen the same pattern across hundreds of SaaS businesses: growth teams get handed “increase activation,” but no one actually owns what activation means, how it’s defined, or how it’s measured. And when activation isn’t owned, it becomes a committee decision. It turns into noise. And your product data stops being useful.
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ably

Realtime steering: interrupt, barge-in, redirect, and guide the AI

Jan 21, 2026 By Faye McClenahan In Ably
Start typing, change your mind, redirect the AI mid-response. It just works. That is the promise of realtime steering. Users expect to interrupt an answer, correct its direction, or inject new instructions on the fly without losing context or restarting the session. It feels simple, but delivering it requires low-latency control signals, reliable cancellation, and shared conversational state that survives disconnects and device switches.
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speedscale

Moving Our Observability Data Collector from Sidecars to eBPF

Jan 20, 2026 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
For years, the Kubernetes sidecar pattern has been a practical way to capture observability data. Running a collector alongside each application pod gave us deep visibility into traffic, including full request and response payloads across supported protocols. However, as cloud-native environments have grown more complex, the limitations of sidecars—such as resource overhead, operational complexity, and scaling challenges—have become more apparent.
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Peeking Under the Hood with Claude Code

Jan 20, 2026 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
Claude is one of the go-to AI-native code editors for developers. Because it's a simple chatbot interface housed inside a familiar CLI, it provides a pretty smooth path between traditional IDEs and agentic AI. But what's actually happening behind the scenes when you ask it to write code, generate a test, or debug an issue? Who and what is it talking to behind the scenes? Can I prevent data leakage or do I need to add another layer to my tin foil hat? To answer these questions, I used proxymock to inspect the network traffic flowing from the Claude IDE.
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ROI of Digital Twin Testing: Cut Testing Costs by 50%

Jan 20, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
When engineering leaders review their cloud bills, they often focus on production costs—the infrastructure serving real users, processing real transactions, generating real revenue. But there’s a shadow cost lurking in every cloud environment that often goes unnoticed until it becomes painful: non-production infrastructure.
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perforce

Talk to Your Test Data: Improve Test Data Management with the Perforce Delphix MCP Server

Jan 20, 2026 By Perforce In Perforce
Many technology leaders face a persistent bottleneck: delivering the right data to the right people at the right time. Despite significant investments in test data management and automation, developers often wait for database refreshes, compliance checks, and answers from infrastructure teams. These delays directly reduce development velocity. A recent shift has occurred in how developers work. AI agents, such as Claude Desktop and Cursor, are now essential coding tools.
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WSO2

Upgrading WSO2 API Manager: What to Expect and How It Works

Jan 20, 2026 By Dinith Herath In WSO2
Upgrading your WSO2 product to the latest version is an important step for maintaining a secure, stable, and future-ready platform. There are several reasons why an upgrade may be necessary, including but not limited to the following. One of the most common reasons is the end of life (EOL) of the current product version. When a version reaches EOL, it no longer receives official support, including security patches, bug fixes, or technical assistance from WSO2.
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Integration Modernization Is No Longer Optional: Why Enterprises Need To Move Beyond Legacy Platforms Like TIBCO

Jan 20, 2026 By Sharya Unamboowe In WSO2
The rise of the Agentic Enterprise has seen a significant shift in the role of integration within organizations. Unlike traditional integration, which primarily connected applications and data, integration in the agentic era demands seamlessly connecting applications and data with complex agentic systems in order to build intelligent systems and flows.
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