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Vibe Coding to Production: Building AI Apps That Actually Scale

Now that AI coding tools have put development capabilities into more hands, prototypes are becoming business-critical applications almost overnight. Shanea Leven sees an opportunity for a new generation of builders, provided the infrastructure around their applications keeps pace. Shanea explains how organizations can give developers and new technical employees room to build while maintaining the standards required for enterprise software..

When Everyone Builds Everything, the Moat Moves to the Data Layer

Copying a PropTech feature set used to take real time and money. It doesn’t anymore, and that changes what makes a product defensible. Property management systems and point solutions are converging on the same capabilities, and the overlap between EliseAI and Funnel earlier this year showed how quickly two platforms in separate lanes can end up competing head-on.

How Does Tier 2 SOC Automation Work?

Tier 2 SOC work picks up evidence gathering across consoles, containment decisions, sandbox detonation and verdicting, sweeping new indicators through historical data, and the case documentation and handoff that follow. Tier 1 work is linear enough to enumerate, so a playbook can list the steps. Tier 2 investigations branch, since each answer changes the next question, and no engineer can pre-write every path and that is why SOAR does not do well in Tier 2 even in teams where it works well at tier 1.

Fivetran vs Talend: Detailed Comparison (2026)

Fivetran vs Talend in 2026: Which ETL Tool Is Better? Fivetran and Talend follow different approaches to data integration. Fivetran focuses on managed, warehouse-first ELT with automatic connector maintenance and schema handling. Talend supports ETL, ELT, data quality, governance, APIs and hybrid deployment across cloud and on-premises environments.

Demo: Flink Table API, User-Defined Functions (UDFs), Process Table Functions (PTFs)

Fully managed Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink combines Flink SQL for data engineers with programmatic capabilities like the Table API, User-Defined Functions (UDFs), and Process Table Functions (PTFs) for developers. You can build mission-critical use cases with programmatic capabilities while using familiar dbt- and SQL-based workflows.

Demo: Real-Time Forecasting with IBM Granite Time Series Models, Apache Flink, and Apache Kafka

Perform robust real-time forecasting on your Kafka data streams using IBM Granite Time Series models TTM, FlowState, PatchTST-FM right in Flink. Get started easily with zero-config, model flexibility, and lower cost in fully managed Confluent Cloud.

Demo: Real-time anomaly detection and forecasting, Real-Time Context Engine for AI agents, and more

What's new in Q3'26: Real-time anomaly detection and forecasting with IBM Granite Time Series models and Google TimesFM model, upserts for Real-Time Context Engine to maintain fresh context for AI, and lightning queries to instantly serve the current state of the business for operational apps, analytics, and more.

How to Improve Interoperability in Healthcare: A Practical Roadmap (2026)

Healthcare interoperability enables clinical, administrative, and financial systems to exchange usable health information securely. It connects EHRs, payer platforms, laboratories, pharmacies, medical devices, and patient applications. In 2026, interoperability requires more than transferring data between disconnected systems. Healthcare organizations must standardize data models, resolve patient identities, govern access, maintain semantic consistency, and support real-time API-based workflows.

Snowflake RBAC: How to Manage Who Accesses What in Your Pipelines

Your data engineer just accidentally deleted the production customer table. Again. This scenario plays out in organizations worldwide, not because of malicious intent, but because of poorly configured access controls. With data breaches and compliance violations, managing who can access what in your Snowflake data warehouse isn't optional: it's essential.