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Five Ways to Use OpenTelemetry Beyond Observability

OpenTelemetry graduated from the CNCF in May 2026 as, in the foundation’s own words, the de facto observability standard. The JavaScript API package alone did 1.36 billion downloads in twelve months. That kind of win has a side effect nobody plans for. Once a wire format is everywhere, has a receiver for every source, a transform language, and an agent your platform team already operates, people start putting things on it that have nothing to do with knowing whether a service is healthy.

Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake in September

The September Snow Report is LIVE Three GA launches, AI cost controls, and Expedition 2026 registration is open. What's new Per-User Quotas are GA Set daily or monthly spending limits per user for CoCo, CoWork, Cortex AI Functions, or warehouse compute — and Snowflake blocks access automatically when limits are hit. Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork is GA Multiple agents analyze your structured data, unstructured content, and external context together and deliver a fully cited report with recommendations in minutes.

Simplify Data Integration | Do It Better with Infometry & Snowflake"

Discover how Informometry’s Snowflake-native applications streamline data integration, governance, and analytics. With no-code connectivity, replicate enterprise data from platforms like Netsuite and Salesforce directly into Snowflake. Eliminate complex ETL processes and reduce integration costs while keeping data secure.

Live Demo | Build a Reliable Data Foundation for Enterprise Analytics & AI

See how Astera turns data preparation and analytics into a conversational experience. Ask questions in plain language, prepare and analyze data, and turn the results into live dashboards without manually building every step. Astera brings structured and unstructured data into a governed data warehouse, then lets teams explore it through natural language. Every chart is traceable to its source, transformation steps, and underlying logic, so teams can validate how each answer was produced.

Build Invoice Automation Workflow with AI Agents | Astera ReportMiner

See how Astera ReportMiner uses AI Agents to build invoice automation workflows without the time consuming manual configuration. Upload your invoice requirements, and the Agent builds the workflow for extraction, transformation, validation, and delivery to your preferred destination. It shows each step as it works, so your team can review and verify the process before deployment. Once approved, the workflow can be scheduled to run unattended.

Building an Agentic SOC on a Stream

Modern Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are transitioning towards agentic architectures. Traditionally, SOCs relied on rigid, rule-based automation and high human effort. We built an Agentic SOC powered by AI agents that don't just follow rigid, hardcoded rules, but also autonomously investigate, reason, and act like human analysts.

I stopped re-explaining my test project every single morning

Before every session, I used to type some version of this: Sixty-two words of setup, and all of it gone the moment I closed the window. Here is the same request in week two, after the assistant had learned how my project works: That is the whole feature. Everything below is how it works and what I learned building it. THE SHORT ANSWER.

Kong and Straiker: Runtime Security and Agent-Level Control for AI Agents

Kong AI Gateway already gives platform teams a central place to route, observe, and enforce policy across AI traffic. Security teams working alongside those platform teams often need another set of answers: Which agents are connected? Which attack paths actually succeed against them? What happened across the full session or tool chain? And if an agent is compromised, can its next action be stopped before it reaches an enterprise system? The integration is designed to be complementary.

Why Listing Consistency Is Becoming a Competitive Advantage for Property Platforms

A prospective renter checks an apartment on Zillow, then on Apartments.com, and sees two different prices. They are not comparing two units. They are looking at one property described by two systems that disagree. Most property platforms treat that gap as a data-quality nuisance to clean up after the fact. It has quietly become something else: a signal that shapes whether customers, syndication partners, and now AI search tools trust the platform at all.

10 Common API Performance Issues and How to Detect Them

Detecting API performance issues before they impact users is the difference between APIs that scale reliably and those that quietly erode user trust. When users encounter lag, failed requests, or timeouts, the consequences are immediate: lost transactions, customer frustration, and brand damage. Teams that build scalable APIs recognize that performance is not just a technical metric – it’s fundamental to business health and reputation.