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How to power AI agents with Fivetran and Google Cloud
See how Fivetran, dbt, and Google Cloud create the fresh, traceable, and well-governed data foundation AI agents need to deliver reliable business insights.
Ship iOS and Android builds twice as fast on GitHub Actions
Last year, Nathan Hillyer's iOS platform engineering team at ForeFlight had self-hosted Mac hardware in their office, two engineers keeping them alive, and a codebase with over 2 million lines of Objective-C, Swift, and C++. Every Xcode update was a fire drill. Every capacity spike during a merge meant somebody was physically racking hardware in the Austin office. ForeFlight didn't want a new CI system. They wanted to stop being a data centre.
Apache Kafka 4.3.0 Release Announcement
We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.3. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent ones. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes. With 25 KIPs and over 600 commits since 4.2.0, this release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes to all the components. See the Upgrading to 4.3 section in the documentation for the list of notable changes and detailed upgrade steps.
Android Date Format: Complete Formatting Guide
From booking flows to subscription screens, formatting dates correctly is a core requirement in almost every Android app. In this post we’ll show you how to master the specific Android date format, understand its unique features and avoid common formatting pitfalls.
How to Automate Report Scheduling With Logi Report
It’s no secret that businesses everywhere are striving to use AI to automate time-consuming or repetitive tasks. By far one of the most time-consuming tasks business people face is reporting. Whether due to custom exports draining developer time, BI tools that can’t handle document output, or driver maintenance wasting time and focus, reporting can be draining to an organization’s most valuable resources.
Trend Reports: Stop Comparing Load Test Results in Spreadsheets
This post is the second in our "Features Sitting Idle" series, where we explore key OctoPerf features that are either misused, misunderstood, or simply unknown to most users. The question comes up every iteration, and yet teams usually handle it the same way: export two reports, open a spreadsheet, and compare numbers manually. It works, but it doesn't scale. After three or four sprints, no one wants to open another spreadsheet.
From petabytes to predictions: Easy BigQuery insights in Google Sheets
Learn how to use Connected Sheets to analyze governed BigQuery data warehouse from a familiar Google Sheets interface.
Durable Sessions: Why your AI UX keeps breaking and how to fix it
AI products today are being let down not by the models — but by the delivery layer between the agent and the user. In this session, Fiona Corden, Technical Product Manager, at Ably, breaks down why AI UX is eroding consumer trust, how to spot the delivery-layer problems hiding in your product data, and what the companies getting it right are doing differently. You'll come away knowing how to diagnose whether your AI product has a session layer problem, what durable sessions are, and why they're becoming the standard solution for resilient AI UX at scale.
AI agent streaming in action: barge-in, human handover, and session continuity
You're mid-conversation with an AI support agent. You've explained the problem, the agent is halfway through a response, and the connection drops. When you reconnect, the response is gone. You type the same question again. The agent asks the same clarifying questions again. Three minutes of context, gone. Not because the model forgot it, but because the delivery layer stored nothing.
Appian World 2026 Unpacked: The Best of AI Automation
Get a recap of innovations and product updates from Appian World 2026. Catch up on key announcements and trends, identify use cases, and learn how to apply new features to your processes and applications.