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From Handwritten Mocks to proxymock: The Complete Loop

Handwritten mocks are cheap one at a time. This series built enough of them to show how quickly that stops being true. Nine posts took one package notifier from a function returning "delayed" to a captured response from a real carrier. Along the way, we hand-authored canned successes, failure cases, a spy, a stateful fake, an HTTP server, response fixtures, and contract-drift tests in four languages.

From CoWork to Action: How to Make Snowflake CoWork Production-Ready

AI agents are moving rapidly from experimentation to execution, and Snowflake CoWork is making it easier for teams to put AI to work across everyday business workflows. But knowing how to use CoWork effectively is only the first step. The bigger question is: how do you make sure the data powering those workflows is complete, current, and reliable enough to trust?

What You Need to Know About Kubernetes vs. Docker Compose

Choosing between Docker Compose and Kubernetes can feel overwhelming, especially when both play an important role in modern containerization strategies. In this video, Zend Professional Services Manager Adam Culp breaks down Kubernetes vs Docker Compose. You’ll learn the essentials of container orchestration, discover when simplicity is an advantage, and understand when it's time to scale—plus, he recommends a new tool that can help, whether you choose Kubernetes or Docker Compose.

Reduce API governance and documentation time to minutes | SmartBear Swagger Studio

In this video, you'll learn how SmartBear Swagger Agents, built right into SmartBear Swagger Studio, cut the process of manual API governance reviews and documentation from weeks to minutes, generating API definitions that are specific to your APIs and compliant with your organization's governance rules from the start.

[Product Demo] AgentSpot Use Case - Automate Release Notes

Release notes are the thing that always gets written last, usually by whoever has the least context, usually the morning after ship day. Everything you need is already sitting in GitHub, it just isn't in a form anyone outside engineering can read. In this video, we use AgentSpot to build a Release Notes Workflow that reads what's been merged in GitHub, translates the changes into human-readable notes, posts them to your team's Slack channel, and keeps a running Slack canvas so every release stays in one place.

[Product Demo] AgentSpot Use Case - PM Jira Assistant

Writing tickets is the tax every PM pays. You know exactly what needs to get built, then you spend an hour turning it into properly scoped Jira issues with acceptance criteria, labels, and the right epic. AgentSpot does the writing for you. In this video, we use AgentSpot to build a Product Assistant that turns a rough feature idea into fully drafted Jira tickets, pulls in context from your existing backlog so nothing gets duplicated, and files them to the right epic ready for grooming.

Introducing DreamFactory 7.7.0

DreamFactory 7.7.0 is now the recommended stable release. It's a substantial one: AI agents become governed, human-owned API consumers; a new open-source API Builder lets you author custom REST endpoints without writing scripts; versioned Schema Contracts catch database drift before it reaches your consumers; and the platform baseline moves to Laravel 13.25 and PHP 8.3.

What's New in Katalon Studio 11.5.0

Katalon Studio 11.5.0 is available for all users as of August 27, 2026. This release focuses on richer reporting, AI assistance that reaches further into test authoring, a stronger mobile recording experience, a refreshed UI, and the performance problems that showed up in large projects. Here's what shipped, starting with the new features.

Why Companies Stay on EOL Node.js - Even When They Know the Risk

Legacy Node.js is rarely an awareness problem. It is a risk, cost, and uncertainty problem. Last week, we looked at a striking signal in the official Node.js download data in Node.js Downloads Surge in 2026 as Node.js 24 Takes the Lead. Node.js 24 had become the most downloaded Node.js release, a strong indication that modernization across the ecosystem is accelerating. But something else stood out.