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AI agents won’t just increase traffic—they’ll overwhelm legacy databases unless core data architectures evolve to handle machine-scale demand.

The agentic era is changing who—or rather, what—does the shopping. Find out how you can prepare your business for it..

AI isn’t just evolving—it’s reshaping who your customers are, how systems operate, and what real time really means. From machines making purchase decisions to agents increasing query volume across databases, the realities of 2026 are forcing leaders to rethink data architecture and governance strategies at a fundamental level. In this episode, Joseph is joined by Will LaForest (Field CTO, Confluent), Adi Polak (Director of Developer Advocacy & Experience, Confluent), and independent analyst, Sanjeev Mohan, to break down critical insights from Confluent’s 2026 Predictions Report.

Busie Agentic Driver and Vehicle Scheduling: Intelligent assignment of drivers and vehicles to trips using real-time data on driver location and availability, vehicle utilization, and customer sentiment to optimize efficiency, service quality, and outcomes.

Apache Kafka is mission-critical for many organizations—but where you deploy it matters just as much as how you use it. In this video, two OpenLogic experts discuss why they increasingly encourage customers to move their Kafka clusters to Kubernetes and utilize the Strimzi operator, and what that shift unlocks from an operational, scalability, and resilience standpoint.

Kafka is powerful—but common Kafka mistakes can quietly undermine performance, reliability, and scalability. In this video, two OpenLogic experts break down the most frequent Kafka anti-patterns they see in real customer environments—and how to avoid them. Based on hands-on experience fixing production Kafka clusters, this discussion covers: If you’re running Apache Kafka in production—or planning to—this video will help you spot Kafka mistakes early and apply proven best practices to build a more stable, scalable event streaming platform.