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Demystifying Data Virtualization: Why it Should Become One of Your DevOps Essentials

Data virtualization can help modern organizations solve the complex challenges that come with managing data. With information scattered across multiple systems, accessing data can lead to operational bottlenecks in your organization.

Data Products for Qlik Analytics - SaaS in 60

Qlik Data Products for Analytics is how you turn raw data into something people can actually trust and reuse. It’s built right into Qlik Cloud Analytics and is designed for analytics teams, data producers, and even AI initiatives. Instead of everyone rebuilding datasets over and over, teams can publish curated, governed, analytics-ready data products that include business context, quality checks, and our patented Qlik Trust Score. People discover them in a marketplace, plug them straight into dashboards, apps, or AI workflows, and move fast with confidence. The big value? Less duplication, lower cost, faster app development, and insights you can actually trust.

Inside @WhatIfMediaGroup's Massive #Kafka Migration to #Kubernetes | Interview with Ryan Anguiano

In this episode, Drew Oetzel sits down with Ryan Anguiano, Staff Architect at @WhatIfMediaGroup to discuss their massive migration of from legacy EC2 instances to using the @Strimzi operator. Ryan shares deep technical insights into how they optimized their data streaming architecture, including their use of EKS, EBS storage striping, and why the 12-Factor App methodology was the key to migrating over 100 services in just a few months.

The Five Pillars of AI Compliance Excellence

95% of AI pilots are failing. Here's why the other 5% are winning. While most organizations scramble to retrofit compliance into their AI implementations, leading finance teams are building it in from the start—and gaining a major competitive edge. Three insights that caught my attention: → Vendor solutions succeed at 2x the rate of internal builds (67% vs 33%)—your team's expertise matters more than you think.

Inside the Node.js Event Loop: What Actually Blocks Your Production System

Your service doesn’t crash. It just gets slower. Latency creeps up. Requests that used to take 20ms now take 120ms. p99 drifts. Throughput drops slightly. Nothing is obviously broken — but the system feels congested. You open your dashboards. And yet, something is clearly off. In many production systems, this is what Event Loop pressure looks like. Not a failure. Not an outage. But a runtime that is struggling to make forward progress. The JavaScript thread is not dead. It’s busy.