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Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink: Engine for Mission-Critical, Real-Time Operational Systems and dbt/SQL-Native Home for Data Science and AI

Organizations today are under immense pressure to deliver on two critical fronts: building mission-critical, real-time operational systems and powering the next generation data science and artificial intelligence (AI) workflows with analytics-ready data. Historically, achieving both meant navigating a divided, complex architecture.

5 Ways Automation Is Improving Food Manufacturing Quality and Safety

Food manufacturers have always operated under intense pressure to deliver products that are both consistent and safe. A single contamination event or a batch of mislabeled allergens can trigger recalls, damage brand trust, and put consumers at risk. As production volumes grow and supply chains stretch across borders, manual inspection processes are struggling to keep pace. That's where automation is stepping in, transforming how food is monitored, tested, and cleared for shelves. Continue reading to learn more about how automation improves food manufacturing.

Chaos Monkey Won't Find Your Bug

We shipped a chaos feature that never caused any chaos. Our mock server has had a fault-injection effect for years with a straightforward job: withhold the response entirely and see whether the caller copes. Last week I audited it against the actual code path. It had never withheld anything. The handler returned early without writing a response. Go’s net/http then did what it is designed to do, which is synthesize a 200 OK and flush the recorded body.

Who's Responsible When AI Gives You the Wrong Answer? Andy Cotgreave and Francois Lopitaux Debate

If an AI agent gives a business user the wrong number, and a consequential decision gets made off it, who's responsible? The data analyst who built the semantic layer? The platform? Or the business user who asked the question and acted on the answer?

Take a Tour of the Future of Modern PHP Management

Better PHP management has arrived. Introducing the Zend Web Platform, available in both Core and Enterprise editions. Built for modern PHP applications, the platform helps development teams improve security, observability, scalability, and efficiency across their infrastructure. In this walkthrough, we'll explore both editions of the Zend Web Platform, which offer a powerful command center that provides a single pane of glass into the health and performance of your PHP applications. See how it delivers.