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Velocity can't come at the cost of quality

Apr 23, 2026 By SmartBear In SmartBear
AI-generated code is flooding your pipelines. Your test automation debt is piling up. If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. Velocity can't come at the cost of quality. As AI transforms how we build software, API testing must evolve. Join Justin Collier, Senior Director, Product Management, and Yousaf Nabi, Developer Advocate, to explore the future of API testing in an AI-driven world.
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Why the "tsunami of code" is breaking QA | From the Bear Cave Ep. 3

Apr 23, 2026 By SmartBear In SmartBear
Recent SmartBear research shows that 70% of teams are already seeing quality degrade with AI-generated code, creating a real bottleneck in the software-development lifecycle (SDLC). As output increases, QA teams are left choosing between delaying releases to validate changes or shipping faster with less confidence in what’s actually working. In this From the Bear Cave clip, SmartBear CEO Dan Faulkner and CMO Kelly Wenzel dig into a growing gap in modern software development: how AI is accelerating code generation but testing and quality validation aren’t scaling with it.
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10 Ways to Optimize API Performance Testing for Faster, More Reliable Results (2026 Guide)

Apr 23, 2026 By LoadFocus In LoadFocus
Many teams dedicate time and resources to API performance testing, yet still face sluggish releases and delayed deployments. Incidents slip through, and users encounter slow applications. The root cause? Too often, teams treat performance testing as a checkbox, without truly simulating real-world loads or analyzing key performance metrics such as latency, throughput, and error rates. This leads to a false sense of readiness that quickly unravels in production environments.
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Data & AI Anywhere: Mastering Digital Sovereignty with Cloudera

Apr 23, 2026 By Cloudera, Inc. In Cloudera
Hey, did you know?... Cloudera's "anywhere" approach means *you* get to choose and control where you deploy your data and AI. Continue watching to hear how we make that possible. In this video, learn how Cloudera helps organizations maintain comprehensive control over their most valuable assets through three critical pillars: Chapters.
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bugfender

Android Studio Breakpoints: How to Debug Android Apps Faster

Apr 23, 2026 By Aleix Ventayol In Bugfender
Breakpoints are one of the most useful tools we can call on when we’re debugging applications. If you’re not familiar, they allow us to pause execution and examine what the program is doing at that moment. And Android Studio offers a whole bunch of add-ons to supplement its core functionality. In this guide, we’ll show you how Android Studio breakpoints work and how you can maximize their potential in your day-to-day work.
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How to Build a QA Culture: Why Your Whole Team Should Write Tests (Not Just Engineers)

Apr 23, 2026 By Ghost Inspector In Ghost Inspector
Quality Assurance used to be the responsibility of a single department. But today, the most effective software teams treat it as a shared responsibility, and the results speak for themselves. There’s a quote from one of Ghost Inspector’s customers that highlights this shift: “The victory for us is how Ghost Inspector has changed the face of QA in our company. We are beginning to grow what I believe is a QA culture.
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bugraptors

The $2 Million Vercel Ransom: Lessons in AI Supply Chain Security

Apr 23, 2026 By Tushar Kashyap In BugRaptors
The recent security breach at Vercel, where a$2 million ransom was demanded after the Context AI OAuth breach, is a wake-up call. Vercel continues to be a pillar of the modern web, serving millions of frontend applications to enterprises around the world. A compromise on such a scale has a ripple effect throughout the enterprise ecosystem.The incident points to a particular weak point: a combination of third-party AI integrations and internal system security.
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nodesource

The Friction with Today's Debugging Strategies

Apr 23, 2026 By Estefany Aguilar In NodeSource
Debugging has always been part of the craft. But in today’s systems — distributed, asynchronous, and increasingly opaque — debugging is no longer just difficult. It’s fragmented. Despite better tooling, more telemetry, and the rise of AI-assisted workflows, many developers still experience the same core frustrations when trying to understand what’s actually happening in production.
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databox

Agentic Analytics in Practice: How AI Moves from Answering Questions to Closing the Loop

Apr 23, 2026 By Alexander B. Pavlinek In Databox
I spent years building dashboards that nobody used. Not because they were bad dashboards — they were actually pretty good. Clean visualizations, real-time data, all the metrics leadership said they wanted. But here’s what I learned: the problem was never the dashboard. The problem was the gap between seeing what happened and doing something about it. You look at a dashboard. It doesn’t act.
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confluent

The Last (and Longest) Mile of Apache Kafka Migrations: Client Migrations With KCP and Confluent Cloud Gateway

Apr 23, 2026 By David Marsh In Confluent
In a previous blog post in this series, we introduced Kafka Copy Paste (KCP), an open source CLI tool that automates the discovery, provisioning, and data migration steps of moving your Apache Kafka environment to Confluent Cloud. We walked through how KCP and Cluster Linking work together to reduce a process that traditionally took weeks to a matter of hours. At the end of that post, we hinted that automated client migration was coming soon. That day has arrived.
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