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What are the key elements of that first POC that make it successful?

A successful POC shows value fast, within just a couple of weeks, by guiding teams through the tool, confirming success criteria, and proving that AI enhances rather than threatens testers’ work. It’s practitioner-focused, methodical, and designed to demonstrate real impact before purchase. — Mush Honda, Chief Quality Architect at Katalon Follow Katalon for more insights in our series!

OpenTelemetry vs. Deep Runtime Telemetry: Which Is Better for Your Node.js Stack?

If you're running Node.js in production, you've likely heard the buzz around OpenTelemetry. It's the industry standard for observability, backed by major vendors, and it promises vendor-neutral telemetry collection across your entire stack. For many teams, it's a game-changer: finally, a unified way to collect traces, metrics, and logs without getting locked into a single vendor's ecosystem.

From APIs to Agentic Integration: Introducing Kong Context Mesh

The promise of agentic AI is clear: autonomous systems that can reason, plan, and act on your behalf. But there's a fundamental problem standing between that vision and enterprise reality: agents need context to make decisions, and that context lives scattered across your organization. Context is any data — or any abstraction that enables access to data — that an agent needs to do its job. Customer records in your CRM. Inventory levels behind your fulfillment APIs.

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

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.

Delphix Demo Delphix MCP Server: Tutorial

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.

Microsoft Access Loses Salesforce Connector - Here's Your Replacement Plan

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.

Security Testing Explained: Protecting Modern Applications And Apis

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.