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Designing Gradle Task IO for Build Caching: what I didn't see coming

When the engineering team first described what they wanted to build, I nodded along like I knew exactly what they meant. Gradle task inputs. Cache misses. Invocation diffs. Sure, totally. I wrote it all down and quietly Googled half of it afterward. That was my introduction to designing Gradle Task IO for Bitrise Build Cache, a feature built to help engineering teams understand why builds are slow and get more value from build caching.

Omnichannel vs Multichannel Banking: What's the Difference?

‍ Omnichannel vs multichannel banking describes two different approaches to managing customer interactions across banking channels. The distinction affects customer experience, data architecture, operating models, personalization, and service continuity. Multichannel banking gives customers access through mobile apps, websites, branches, ATMs, and contact centers. However, each channel may operate through separate systems, customer records, and workflows.

Don't Let Accessibility Testing Become Your Next Nightmare

On Halloween, appearances win. A great costume gets the best candy, and nobody asks what’s underneath. Digital products get judged the same way on launch day. The interface is polished, the demo goes smoothly, and every stakeholder walks away happy. Then someone opens the app with VoiceOver or TalkBack, and the mask slips. Buttons have no labels. Focus jumps around the screen. A form can’t be completed with a screen reader.

Why API Security Is Foundational to AI Security (Akamai Study)

Secure AI starts with securing the APIs underneath it. This session breaks down why APIs and MCPs are the control plane for AI apps and agents, where unmanaged API risk hides, and how security and platform teams can improve visibility, posture, runtime protection, and governance across production environments. KEY TAKEAWAYS TIMESTAMPS.

What a room of engineers asked me about realtime resilience

I spoke about Ably's approach to resilience at the AWS Cloud Resilience Roadshow in Dublin on 22 September 2026, and the questions afterwards covered CDNs, regional failover, outages, message ordering, and capacity. They got me reflecting on which parts of our approach are common across the industry, which are less so, and how choices made early, well before my time at Ably, have put us in a strong position today.

Building With ARIA: From Plain English to EDI Flows

ARIA is an AI Agent that has full knowledge of the Astera ecosystem. Sudais (Growth Strategist) sits down with Hasham Qazi (AI Product Specialist), to talk about why, and how that single agent, ARIA, builds data flows, workflows, and EDI pipelines from plain-language prompts. Hasham walks through a real use case, building an EDI flow from a file you hand to the agent, and explains what ARIA does when your prompt has gaps, how it checks its own work, and where it's heading next.

What IT Buyers Need to Know Before a Mainframe Refresh

Most mainframe storage refreshes begin with a notice. A support statement gets revised, a lifecycle date is published, a lease comes due, or a capacity report shows the estate crossing a threshold two years earlier than anyone planned for. A purchase that had been sitting comfortably in a future budget cycle now has to close in this one. Under deadline pressure, the instinct is to buy the current generation of the platform you already run.

AI at Scale: Why Trust, Not the Model, Decides Who Wins

Every AI conversation eventually turns into a model conversation: which one is fastest, which one hallucinates least, which one your competitors are already using. Three recent episodes of The Data and AI Chief, hosted by ThoughtSpot's Chief Data and AI Strategy Officer Cindi Howson, make a different case entirely about what it takes to scale AI in the enterprise.