Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

From Data to Insight Activation: Key Takeaways from Data Summit 2025

Every year, Data Summit attracts data professionals to Boston for three days to exchange ideas and innovation. In 2025, the event was dedicated to data management trends, Big Data, business intelligence (BI), analytics, as well as emerging innovation in AI and machine learning. At the Data Summit, Sami Akbay, insightsoftware’s Head of Data Analytics Projects, hosted a session on the evolution of BI, the rise of generative AI, and the shift toward insight-driven workflows.

The post-hype reality for developers

Devoxx Poland 2025 felt different. Not because of revolutionary new frameworks or another "this changes everything" moment, but because of what didn't happen. The conference had an unusual dose of pragmatism, skepticism, and – dare we say it – common sense. Maybe it's because developers are asking the right questions: "Does this solve a problem?" and "What happens when this inevitably breaks?" Here's what emerged from the sessions we watched, and the people we spoke to.

API Developer Day with Kong Insomnia and Kong Konnect

Build, run, discover, and govern your APIs as part of an automated pipeline Insomnia isn't just a powerful API client — it's a part of the larger Kong Konnect platform for managing the overall lifecycle of your APIs: build, run, discover, and govern. During this event, we’ll utilize a design first approach to building a REST API. We’ll leverage Kong Insomnia to design and test this API and then use Kong Konnect to secure and expose this API for consumption. Finally, we’ll follow APIops best practices and implement end-to-end automation over the entire API lifecycle.

Confluent Current 2025 highlights

Current 2025 featured two days of engineers figuring out how streaming tech needs to evolve in an AI-driven world. Gone are the days when talks focused on basic Kafka setup. This year, everyone was tackling complex integrations, developer happiness, and practical AI implementation. Still, the event drew a range of people, with plenty of new faces stopping by the Lenses.io booth – clear evidence that Kafka and data streaming continue to attract newcomers.

Four things we learned at WEST 2025

As global maritime challenges intensify, the pressing need for the U.S. Department of Defense to modernize its maritime technology has never been more critical. At WEST 2025 in San Diego, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard leaders called for cutting-edge technologies to improve readiness and new capabilities to support multi-domain operations. And while IT modernization topped the DoD’s priorities, a new conversation about testing emerged.

CatalyX Event Series 2025: Where Industry Leaders Meet Tomorrow's Innovators

CatalyX Ventures is set to host its flagship technology and innovation event on 20 March 2025 in New York City. This year's CatalyX Event Series pioneers a new approach by uniting established industry leaders and emerging startups on a single platform, cultivating a dynamic ecosystem for innovation exchange and project development. The event features two flagship programmes: the Champions Series Awards, honouring excellence in industry leadership, and the Pitching Series Awards, spotlighting the most promising next-generation tech entrepreneurs.

Key Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent is one of my favorite trade shows. It is one of the biggest technology conferences of the year and is an opportunity to have hundreds of conversations with customers and prospects, listen to their priorities and challenges, hopes, and give them a Cloudera tote bag or a pair of orange sunglasses. What follows is a collection of just a few things I learned and observed during my week in Las Vegas.