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Preventing Kafka war rooms: with self-service troubleshooting

Jul 21, 2026 By LensesIO In Lenses
Most Kafka war rooms don't start at 2am in production. They start weeks earlier, when an engineer couldn’t explore a topic, see partition distribution, a quota or a config and shipped hoping for the best. That's the Platform Engineering waiting room: developers building apps waiting in a queue of tickets, with no self-service visibility into Kafka. That release triggers a P1 later.
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katalon

Prompt Engineering for Manual Testers: How to Get Useful Output from AI Tools

Jul 21, 2026 By Depa Panjie Purnama In Katalon
You opened the AI assistant for the first time with a fair amount of hope. You typed "write test cases for the login page." You got eight test cases back in about three seconds. Valid login. Invalid password. Empty username. Empty password. The kind of list you could have written in your sleep, missing every scenario that actually matters for your product. So you closed the tool and thought: this is fine for the basics, but it does not really get testing. AI is overhated.
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InsightSoftware

How To Unlock AI Data Anywhere (Even On-Prem) for Regulated Industries

Jul 21, 2026 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
Most AI content assumes your data is in the cloud. But for a meaningful segment of enterprises, cloud-only AI tools block them at the pass. For regulated industries like manufacturing and healthcare, data residency requirements, compliance mandates, security policies, and simple operational reality mean sensitive data must remain on-premises.
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Perforce IPLM Ask AI: Find IP, Metadata, and Design Context Instantly

Jul 21, 2026 By Perforce In Perforce
See the new Ask AI interface in Perforce IPLM. In this quick 1.5-minute demo, the Perforce product team shows how engineers can use natural language to query IPLM, retrieve IP versions and metadata, and access critical design context without navigating complex menus or queries. The Ask AI feature is powered by the IPLM MCP Server and Perforce Agentic Gateway, allowing you to.
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qlik

The AI Opportunity Gap Is Real. It's Growing. And It Is Not About Access to Tools.

Jul 21, 2026 By James Fisher In Qlik
In the first part of this series, I argued that discernment, the ability to recognise when an AI-generated answer is wrong, is becoming one of the most valuable capabilities inside an organisation. The question this piece addresses is simpler and harder: who is actually being given the opportunity to develop it? The AI opportunity gap is real. It is not primarily a gap in access to tools. It is a gap in permission. And I believe that gap starts earlier than most leaders realise, often in school.
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kong

Why Integration and MCP Are the New Foundation of Your Agentic AI Strategy

Jul 21, 2026 By Heather Halenbeck In Kong
If you've been following the agentic AI wave, you've probably noticed that the conversation tends to center on the agents themselves: which LLM to use, which orchestration framework to pick, which use cases to tackle first. But a growing body of analyst research is pointing to a different bottleneck, one that's hiding in plain sight: integration. Forrester's David Mooter argues that integration must sit at the center of your AI strategy — not as plumbing, but as a strategic capability.
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kong

Why Your Kafka Event Streams Need an Event Gateway

Jul 21, 2026 By Warren Vella In Kong
*You wouldn't expose a REST API without a gateway. What about Kafka?* You would never expose a REST API without an API gateway in front of it. Authentication, rate limiting, observability, access control — these aren't optional extras. They're mandatory, and we've spent the last decade building the API gateway pattern to solve exactly this problem. So here's the question worth sitting with: would you expose Kafka or any event stream without a gateway?
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UFO.Hosting Review (2026): Budget $6 VPS, 10 Gbps Uplinks & Bare-Metal Servers

UFO.Hosting Review (2026): Budget $6 VPS, 10 Gbps Uplinks & Bare-Metal Servers

Jul 21, 2026 By SystemsDigest In SystemsDigest
Building a resilient server infrastructure requires a constant balance between hardware performance, network bandwidth, and overall cost. Hosting provider UFO.Hosting has drawn significant attention within the IT community due to its combination of affordable VPS plans, high-speed uplink ports reaching up to 10 Gbps, and a flexible choice of server deployment locations. The editorial team at SystemsDigest conducted a comprehensive analysis of the provider, evaluating company reliability, network connectivity, and hardware potential under heavy workloads.
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Rethinking AI Governance with Lisa Pent #Cloudera #Shorts #AIGovernance #TechRisk

Jul 20, 2026 By Cloudera, Inc. In Cloudera
New AI tools are coming out faster than ever, and your employees are working hard to stay at the cutting edge of new technology. Where does governance come into play? Explore how to govern AI without slowing down innovation in the latest episode of The AI Forecast, sponsored by Cloudera.
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