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[Product Demo] AgentSpot Use Case - Automate Release Notes

Release notes are the thing that always gets written last, usually by whoever has the least context, usually the morning after ship day. Everything you need is already sitting in GitHub, it just isn't in a form anyone outside engineering can read. In this video, we use AgentSpot to build a Release Notes Workflow that reads what's been merged in GitHub, translates the changes into human-readable notes, posts them to your team's Slack channel, and keeps a running Slack canvas so every release stays in one place.

[Product Demo] AgentSpot Use Case - PM Jira Assistant

Writing tickets is the tax every PM pays. You know exactly what needs to get built, then you spend an hour turning it into properly scoped Jira issues with acceptance criteria, labels, and the right epic. AgentSpot does the writing for you. In this video, we use AgentSpot to build a Product Assistant that turns a rough feature idea into fully drafted Jira tickets, pulls in context from your existing backlog so nothing gets duplicated, and files them to the right epic ready for grooming.

Introducing DreamFactory 7.7.0

DreamFactory 7.7.0 is now the recommended stable release. It's a substantial one: AI agents become governed, human-owned API consumers; a new open-source API Builder lets you author custom REST endpoints without writing scripts; versioned Schema Contracts catch database drift before it reaches your consumers; and the platform baseline moves to Laravel 13.25 and PHP 8.3.

What's New in Katalon Studio 11.5.0

Katalon Studio 11.5.0 is available for all users as of August 27, 2026. This release focuses on richer reporting, AI assistance that reaches further into test authoring, a stronger mobile recording experience, a refreshed UI, and the performance problems that showed up in large projects. Here's what shipped, starting with the new features.

Why Companies Stay on EOL Node.js - Even When They Know the Risk

Legacy Node.js is rarely an awareness problem. It is a risk, cost, and uncertainty problem. Last week, we looked at a striking signal in the official Node.js download data in Node.js Downloads Surge in 2026 as Node.js 24 Takes the Lead. Node.js 24 had become the most downloaded Node.js release, a strong indication that modernization across the ecosystem is accelerating. But something else stood out.

10 Load Testing Strategies to Optimize E-Commerce Website Performance in 2026

E-commerce platforms face unique performance challenges. Traffic patterns are volatile, with sudden surges during flash sales, promotions, or holidays. Relying on generic load testing – such as steady user simulations or basic server throughput checks – misses the mark. If your tests don’t mirror real shopping scenarios, you risk missing critical issues that can lead to lost revenue and damaged brand reputation during peak events.

From IoT Data to AI-Ready: The Edge Solution

Is your data actually ready for AI? While companies rush to deploy machine learning models, 83% of executives realize that high-value, real-time data is trapped at the physical edge—on factory floors, inside hospitals, and at retail terminals. With billions of connected IoT devices, managing this data creates massive hidden headaches like security risks and pipeline blind spots. True AI readiness starts at the edge. Bridge the gap between your edge devices and your AI goals today.

Best Hosting for Odoo: Backups, Uptime and Disaster Recovery

Almost every Odoo host advertises backups. Very few will tell you when a restore was last tested, and those are completely different claims. The gap between them is where agencies get hurt. A backup that exists but has never been restored is not a backup. It is a file, and you find out which one it is on the worst possible day. Cloudpepper is Odoo hosting with automated backups and monitoring built for agencies running client systems, and on this particular criterion it is the strongest option available, for a structural reason covered in point seven below.

Test Behavior, Not Choreography

The spy from post 4 is a sharp tool. Once a test can record every interaction, it is tempting to assert on all of them. The result looks thorough, but it is usually a transcript rather than a useful specification. This post takes a test written that way, makes a change that no customer could possibly notice, and watches the test fail anyway. This is part 5 of a ten-part series. The code is in Java, Node.js, Go and Python.