How to use Fivetran Skills to connect Claude to your Marketo data
How I use Fivetran connectors and Skills to turn our warehouse data into direct answers through Claude, instead of rebuilding the same analysis in Marketo every time.
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Role of Synthetic Traffic in Performance Testing
Synthetic traffic is now a cornerstone of performance engineering. Used thoughtfully, it turns performance testing into a proactive discipline – anticipating problems, validating fixes, and setting the stage for confident releases.
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.
Stop Kafka access requests from overloading your team
Access control doesn't have to create toil. In this 3-minute guide, we frame what it takes to streamline Kafka access requests -- reducing ticket overhead, cutting approval cycles, and giving your platform team back their week.
What California's new tax law means for your public sector team
Starting Jan. 1, 2027, California will begin applying its sales tax to most software, including SaaS. Signed in June 2026, SB-122 closes a long-standing gap that left “digital products” in the state largely untaxed. Here’s how this impacts your public sector team.
SwiftUI PhotosPicker Tutorial: Let Users Pick a Photo #Shorts #swiftui #swiftuitutorial
SwiftUI PhotosPicker tutorial: how to let people choose a photo in SwiftUI with PhotosPicker from PhotosUI, load it with loadTransferable(type:), and handle and log the errors when loading fails. PhotosPicker opens the system photo picker. People choose a photo, and your app gets only the items they pick. This Short shows the whole flow in a real iPhone app in the iOS Simulator, with the exact code.
Best App Deployment Platforms in 2026: Which One to Pick for Your App #Shorts #appdeployment #coding
Best app deployment platforms in 2026: the right one depends on what you ship. Here is the short list by use case, with the free-tier changes that make older lists out of date. THE SHORT LIST Frontend apps: Vercel or Netlify. Every Git push gets its own preview link. Full-stack apps and APIs: Render or Railway, with databases next to your app. Mobile backend: Firebase, with auth, real-time data and hosting. Already on AWS or Google Cloud: AWS Amplify or Google Cloud Run. Static sites: GitHub Pages and Cloudflare Pages host them for free.
Nobody Wants Your New AI Agent #devops #aiagents #softwaredevelopment #techtrends #ai
DevOps customers are rejecting standalone AI agents and web interfaces in favor of integrating context directly into their existing harnesses, such as Copilot or Claude. Rather than logging into separate tools, developers prefer combining models and technologies within a single context window to streamline software development and debugging. Learn more: speedscale.com.
Quick Load Testing & Mocking with Proxymock and AI #loadtesting #mocktest #softwaretesting #devops
Learn how to quickly set up a load testing foundation for your Node app using the free ProxyMock tool combined with an AI coding agent. This walkthrough demonstrates how to record traffic, mock dependencies, and analyze latency distribution results in just a few simple steps. Learn more: speedscale.com.
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.