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confluent

Disaster Recovery in 60 Seconds: A POC for Seamless Client Failover on Confluent Cloud

Feb 10, 2026 By Sylvain Le Gouellec In Confluent
I’ve worked with Apache Kafka since 2019, and deciding how to design and implement client failover was a sticking point in almost every use case I dealt with. Even for Confluent customers—who have the benefit of features such as Confluent Replicator, Multi-Region Clusters, and Cluster Linking—ensuring seamless failover between Kafka environments is a challenging problem.
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Delphix Demo Delphix MCP Server: Tutorial

Feb 10, 2026 By Perforce In Perforce
In this demonstration, Perforce Delphix expert Jatinder Luthra gives an insightful overview of using the Delphix MCP Server. After highlighting data operations’ latest challenges and MCP basics, Luthra takes you on a demo journey following a QA Lead, Sarah, featuring example scenarios and use cases. Find out how you can use the Delphix MCP Server prompts to bolster your organization’s testing, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration — watch the demo now.
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Microsoft Access Loses Salesforce Connector - Here's Your Replacement Plan

Feb 10, 2026 By insightsoftware In InsightSoftware
Microsoft retired the Access Salesforce connector in October 2025. Here's how to keep your data flowing with the Simba Salesforce ODBC Driver. If you've been using Microsoft Access to connect to Salesforce, you need a new solution. The good news? Simba has been powering Microsoft's Salesforce connectivity under the hood for years. Same proven driver, same reliable performance. The switch is simple: update one connection string and your queries keep running, your reports stay intact, and your stakeholders don't even need to know anything changed.
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keploy

Security Testing Explained: Protecting Modern Applications And Apis

Feb 10, 2026 By Keploy In Keploy
Security testing helps identify weaknesses in software before attackers can exploit them. It protects sensitive data, ensures system stability, and controls user access. With web, mobile, and API-based applications growing rapidly, security threats are increasing. Security testing helps teams detect risks early, prevent breaches, and meet compliance standards.
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qlik

How to Make Data Work for Agentic AI

Feb 10, 2026 By Brendan Grady In Qlik
For decades, organizations have worked to use data to make better decisions and drive better outcomes. Data has become the lifeblood of the business, and AI now has the power to unlock it in new ways. The paradigm is shifting, from dashboards and visual interfaces to AI driven experiences. But too much data is still stuck in silos, incomplete, and inaccurate. Many analytics workflows remain manual, which slows time to value, limits insight quality, and raises cost.
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dreamfactory

The Hidden Cost of Building Your Own LLM Data Layer

Feb 10, 2026 By Kevin Hood In DreamFactory
For most businesses, the break-even point for self-hosting only makes sense if processing 100–200 million tokens daily. Otherwise, managed API solutions are more cost-effective, faster to deploy, and easier to maintain. Alternatives like DreamFactory offer pre-built, secure API layers, saving time and money while simplifying enterprise AI integration. Bottom line: Building your own LLM data layer is a major investment with hidden challenges.
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alphabin

Best Flaky Test Detection Services and Agencies in 2026

Feb 10, 2026 By Pratik Patel In Alphabin
Your CI pipeline failed again. You check the logs. Nothing changed. You run it again. It passes. That right there is the silent killer of engineering teams. Flaky tests. And most companies are bleeding money because of them without even realizing it. I've spent years doing QA consulting. I've sat in rooms where engineers argued for 45 minutes about whether a failure was real or not. I've watched teams lose entire sprints chasing phantoms. And the pattern is always the same.
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honeybadger

FastAPI error handling: types, methods, and best practices

Feb 10, 2026 By Aditya Raj In Honeybadger
Errors and exceptions are inevitable in any software, and FastAPI applications are no exception. Errors can disrupt the normal flow of execution, expose sensitive information, and lead to a poor user experience. Hence, it is important to implement robust error-handling mechanisms in FastAPI applications. In this article, we will discuss the different types of FastAPI errors to help you understand their causes and effects.
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