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At Confluent, our mission is to provide the world’s most secure and scalable data streaming platform. So we’re aware and planning for a future where the threat of a large-scale, cryptographically relevant quantum computer is able to break the public key cryptographic algorithms in use today. In fact, the Quantum-Safe Working Group of the Cloud Security Alliance set April 14, 2030, as the deadline by which companies should have their post-quantum infrastructure in place.

In the fast-paced world of digital analytics, understanding your users isn't just about collecting data. It's about making sense of it in ways that drive real business decisions. Enter cohorts, a powerful tool that helps you segment users based on shared behaviors and characteristics. Whether you're a marketer trying to boost retention, a product manager analyzing user engagement, or a business owner seeking deeper insights, cohorts can transform how you view your audience.

Let’s be honest about what is happening in the job market today. Companies are posting jobs for “automation engineers.” But what they actually expect is very different from what most testers currently know.

If you compare the world 10 years ago with today's era, you can easily see the difference. From the difference, we don’t mean how the world looks, rather we mean how it functions now and used to function then. What do you think has changed in how the world functions now compared to back then? Is it purely due to digitalization? Or is it just a mere change? Keeping these questions aside, let us tell you that recent data suggests that people spend around 3 hours and 15 minutes on their phones daily.

With an ever-growing user base of approximately 6.7 billion active smartphone users globally, mobile apps have become an integral part of our modern existence and digital transformation. Recognizing their omnipresence and revenue-generating potential, it becomes imperative not to overlook their significance. Nevertheless, one of the initial queries posed by clients while presenting their app concepts to us revolves around understanding the app development cost.

When it comes to developing cross-platform apps, Flutter is one of the top choices that comes to developers' minds. But, what’s the reason behind it? Thanks to the innovative cross-platform development capabilities offered by the Flutter framework, creating native applications for both Android and iOS platforms has become remarkably simple.

For fifty years, the hardest part of software was writing it. That's no longer true. In 2025, AI coding assistants went mainstream — 90% of developers now use them (DORA 2025). Then came background agents: autonomous systems that take a ticket, write the code, run the tests, and open a pull request while the engineer sleeps. Stripe merges over 1,000 AI-written PRs per week. Ramp reached 30% AI-authored PRs within two months. Spotify has merged 1,500+ agent-generated PRs into production.

We’re proud to share that Kong Insomnia has been recognized as a vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for API and MCP Testing Tools in February, 2026. In a rapidly evolving landscape where AI-driven integration and MCP servers are reshaping how APIs are built, tested, and consumed, being recognized by Gartner validates what our community and customers already know: Insomnia is a serious, enterprise-ready platform for modern API development and testing.

The appetite for real-time data continues to grow. Across industries, the ability to act on data as it arrives is increasingly central to how leading organizations compete, from IoT and fraud detection to event driven analytics and AI agent architectures. Streaming data is no longer a specialist workload. It is becoming a core requirement. I am excited to announce that streaming ingestion is generally available in Qlik Open Lakehouse, part of Qlik Talend Cloud.

‍Mobile development has a reputation for being slow, complex, and harder than it needs to be. Platform quirks, rigid review gates, and ever-growing app complexity can make it feel like the toolchain is working against you. But the data tells a different story. We analyzed tens of millions of builds across thousands of mobile teams on Bitrise, spanning three years of real-world data from 2022 to 2025. The results challenge some common assumptions, and confirm others.