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5 tips to build a durable career in the age of AI

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” That’s Amara’s Law, a principle coined by futurist Roy Amara. It explains how emerging technologies, like the early internet, are often overhyped at first, followed by a shift toward recognizing their value and integrating them over time. This thinking is a lot like what we’re seeing today with agentic AI.

Impact of AI in eCommerce in 2026 & beyond

Remember when Jarvis ran Tony Stark’s entire life and helped him build a high-tech Iron Man suit? That’s pretty much AI in eCommerce now, but instead of building suits, it’s building smarter stores and smoother shopping experiences. While most people are still stuck using AI to write basic product descriptions or churn out ad copy, the real power of artificial intelligence in commerce lies under the hood.

How to Build SLAs for Real-Time Dashboards with AI-ETL

Your executive dashboard shows yesterday's data while your competitors make decisions with information that's minutes old. This gap isn't just an inconvenience—it's a competitive disadvantage costing businesses millions in missed opportunities, delayed responses, and stale insights. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for real-time dashboards solve this problem by establishing measurable commitments for data freshness, accuracy, and availability.

How we built an AI-first culture at Ably

Most companies talk about being “AI-first.” At Ably, we decided to actually become one. We build realtime infrastructure for AI applications. To do that credibly, we need to live and breathe AI ourselves – not just in our product, but in how we work every day. Two years ago, we began a company-wide push for AI adoption.

From Design to Deployed: Introducing the Figma Plugin for Sauce Visual for Pixel-Perfect Releases

Bridge the disconnect between design and development. The new Figma plugin for Sauce Visual automates baseline creation, enables shift-left testing, and guarantees visual consistency with your approved Figma designs.

Leveraging ThoughtSpot and LLMs for Business Insights

- Building a prototype is easy—but scaling reliable, secure AI is the real challenge. In this demo, we show you how to move past basic chat and into the era of Agentic AI with the ThoughtSpot MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server. The MCP Server acts as a bridge between your data and external LLMs like Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini. It doesn't just answer questions; it reasons through your data model to automatically generate governed, mission-critical Liveboards.

AI x Testing Leadership | Jaydeep Chakrabarty | Ask Me Anything

AI is not just changing how we test it's redefining how we lead. This high-impact AMA explores how testing leadership must evolve in an AI-first world. Whether you're managing a lean QA team or scaling quality across a large enterprise, the session offers frameworks and insight to help you lead, not just adapt, through transformation. What you'll take away: About Jaydeep Chakrabarty.

Ask Me Anything with Harinee Muralinath

AI tools are getting smarter, and many of them now have access to more than you realize. From test scripts to config files to internal APIs, what starts as "just a helper" can become a hidden risk. In this AMA, Harinee will share where things go wrong when tools are trusted too quickly. We’ll look at real examples, permission pitfalls, and ways to keep your systems safer. If you’re using AI in testing or automation, this session will help you ask better questions. Bring your curiosity and your concerns. Let’s talk about what your tools can do, and what they shouldn't.

AI Agent with Strands SDK, Kong AI/MCP Gateway & Amazon Bedrock

In one of our posts, Kong AI/MCP Gateway and Kong MCP Server technical breakdown, we described the new capabilities added to Kong AI Gateway to support MCP (Model Context Protocol). The post focused exclusively on consuming MCP server and MCP tools through Kong MCP Gateway. Now, it's time to check how an AI agent can leverage the AI and MCP infrastructure exposed and protected by Kong AI/MCP Gateway.

AI in Action: Powering the Future of Testing | Xray Webinar

A quick overview of Xray Test Management - cutting-edge test management app for Jira. Xray is the leading Quality Assurance and Test Management app for Jira. More than 4.5 million testers, developers and QA managers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month. Xray is a mission-critical tool at over 5,000 companies in 70 countries, including 137 of the Global 500 like BMW, Samsung and Airbus.