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Agentic Engineering and the Agentic Software Factory for Real-Time Data Products

Software workloads that process large volumes of real-time data are becoming common. Decades working in this domain has taught me that building and operating reliable and maintainable real-time data products requires permissive access to the context of the environment. This article explains how to approach agentic engineering and apply it when building real-time data products inside an agentic software factory.

What Are AI Agents Actually Doing When They Talk to Each Other?

You've probably seen the demos. An AI model kicks off a task, hands pieces of it to other AI models, and somehow the whole thing gets done. Emails drafted, code reviewed, reports summarized — all without a human in the loop. While a single agent doing one thing is impressive, the true paradigm shift occurs when transitioning from single-agent to multi-agent AI systems. It looks like magic. It isn't.

A New Dawn: Enterprise AI's Shadow - Trillions of Tokens, Zero Governance

You Can't Govern What You Can't See A decade ago, cloud and API sprawl got ahead of governance, and enterprises spent years trying to account for costs they'd never tracked. Today, we're seeing the same pattern around AI, with hundreds of customers proxying traffic via Kong AI Gateway, which includes LLM, MCP, and agent connectivity. *AI spending will reach $2.59 trillion in 2026.* I regularly like to share what we're seeing in production at Kong.

Building a Data Warehouse with the Astera AI Agent: From Prompt to Insight

Establishing a data warehousing system that meets all your business intelligence targets is by no means an easy task. It traditionally involves profiling source systems, designing a dimensional model by hand, writing the DDL to deploy it, building the load pipelines, and scheduling them to run, work that can take weeks. Astera's manual, step-by-step approach to this is covered in Building a Data Warehouse – A Step by Step Approach.

Cut AI coding defects by 33% #mcpserver #aicoding #aiagents #grafana #aitools

We spend thousands of dollars "token maxing" and running endless debugging cycles just to walk our LLMs through a problem. But is the AI actually failing, or are we just withholding the right environment? Giving your AI assistant its own sandbox to test hypotheses might just be the missing link in your development workflow.

Perfecto AI Desktop Testing Brings Native Apps Into Your Automation Strategy

For years, native desktop applications have been the part of your portfolio that automation forgot. Your team automates web and mobile with confidence. Then there's the.NET client over a mainframe, the EPIC workflow, the proprietary trading terminal, and the packaged Windows app that breaks every time someone moves a button. These applications run your most regulated, high-stakes processes, and they stay locked in manual testing year after year. Perfecto AI Desktop Testing changes that.

AI-generated API tests in Katalon Studio 11.4 #Katalon #APITesting #TestAutomation #OpenAPI #QA

Katalon Studio 11.4 can now generate API test cases with AI. Import your OpenAPI specification and Studio automatically creates the Web Service requests in an API Collection. From there, generate tests and save them straight into your project. The AI doesn't just show you a preview. You get real test cases covering positive flows, boundary values, NULL values and empty strings, ready to run and build on like any other test case in your project.