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New research with 150 Kafka practitioners reveals they have a love-and-hate relationship with the replication tools. Most use MirrorMaker2 until it lacks enterprise compliance and complexity pinches. Confluent Cluster Linking is powerful, but organisations hate being locked in. 70% of respondents would make the switch to a different tool if they were assured the migration was easy. Join Guillaume Aymé, the CEO of Lenses.io, who will be discussing the state of Kafka replication with the author of the research, Dinesh Chandrasekhar, the Founder of Stratola Research.

AI transformation in financial services is no longer just a technical upgrade—it is the cornerstone of delivering the seamless digital experiences today's banking and insurance customers demand. In this feature from Appian Around the World London and Appian Europe, Sandeep Dubbireddi, Industry Vice President of Financial Services at Appian, breaks down what it takes to successfully diffuse artificial intelligence across entire enterprise organizations.

Nicola Tagoe (Line of Business PMM, Snowflake) and Margaux Bouche (Manager, Demand Generation) show how AI changed the way they build campaigns together. They cover the shift from two-week positioning cycles and data scattered across five tools to a shared Snowflake foundation where PMM and Demand Gen now build in real time. Plus their honest take on the 80/20 rule: AI handles the research and structure. The last 20%, brand voice, bold bets, and the judgment that comes from years in the job, stays with the humans.

Build a Logistics Dashboard on On-Prem SQL Server with DreamFactory + Base44 In this video, I connect an on-prem SQL Server database to Base44 using DreamFactory. DreamFactory serves a REST API with a read-only role and a scoped API key, and Base44 uses that API as a custom integration to build a full logistics dashboard, complete with related records, filtering, maps, and per-customer and per-driver analytics. No direct database access, no hand-written API code.

Never used Codex before? This beginner tutorial shows how to start using OpenAI Codex on a Mac, step by step, after it is installed. What you'll do: Commands from the video (replace the path with the one you copied; your folder path will be different): cd /Users/yourname/Desktop/codex-practice codex First prompt: Create a text file named hello.txt with the words "My first Codex file." Tell me where you saved it.

Copying enterprise data to run AI is officially dead. Most platforms force you into a risky "lift and shift" trap—shuffling petabytes of protected data into the public cloud, exposing sensitive PII, and burning budgets on massive egress fees. As we’re on the ground with ServiceNow in Chicago this week, we’re taking a closer look at how the Cloudera Workflow Data Fabric Zero Copy Connector for @ServiceNow helps AI agents query governed data directly where it resides — enabling organizations to automate workflows while reducing the cost, complexity and risk of data movement.

Three years after discussing Gearbox's cloud-based build pipeline with the P4 team, Steve Fortier and Phillip Peterson return to share what happened as Borderlands 4 grew from a secret project into a live game. As the team grew to support more branches, patches, and ongoing content, they encountered new challenges in P4, AWS, TeamCity, and Unreal Game Sync that only emerged on a massive scale. From symbol servers and workspace management to AWS storage and snapshot performance, they walk through the troubleshooting process behind several unexpected bottlenecks.

See how this AgentSpot workflow takes the manual work out of SE allocation. It looks at the request, region, expertise, and calendars to recommend the right SE for the job. Then it sends the recommendation straight to Slack. What is AgentSpot? AgentSpot is multiplayer AI for your business. Anyone can build, share, and collaborate with AI agents connected to your company’s data, context, and tools.

Watch how Liz Johnston uses AgentSpot to turn technical product updates into digestible, ready-to-share content for her customers. The Product Decoded agent pulls together key details and creates a Google Doc, branded PDF, and email-ready HTML. One prompt, three deliverables ready to go. What is AgentSpot? AgentSpot is multiplayer AI for your business. Anyone can build, share, and collaborate with AI agents connected to your company’s data, context, and tools.

See how AgentSpot can bring real-time support into the sales process. Deal Sherpa pulls together account context, surfaces gaps and risks, and recommends what to do next. See how it works and what it looks like in action. What is AgentSpot? AgentSpot is multiplayer AI for your business. Anyone can build, share, and collaborate with AI agents connected to your company’s data, context, and tools.