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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.

Agentic AI: From Reactive Bots to Autonomous Digital CoWorkers | Toni Ramchandani

Agentic AI marks the next evolutionary leap in artificial intelligence - systems that don’t just answer prompts or generate content, but plan, decide, and act on our behalf with minimal oversight. In this webinar, we’ll demystify what “agentic” really means, trace the shift from single‑step chatbots to multi‑step autonomous agents, and explore the architectures—sense‑plan‑act loops, large‑language‑model reasoning layers, and tool‑integrations—that make true agency possible.

AI in State and Local Government: Impact Starts with Process, Not Hype

Why “standalone AI” falls short AI works best when embedded in a process Guardrails are not a limitation—they’re an enabler Process-driven AI in action How leaders should be thinking about AI now Artificial intelligence is no longer optional in state and local government—it’s essential for meeting public expectations amid staffing shortages and budget constraints. AI is showing up across agencies and programs.

Qlik 2026 Trends - Powering the Future of AI

Somehow, another year has passed and we’re back again to deliver our Trends Outlook for 2026. As Qlik’s first milestone of the year, it’s a busy but exciting time that hugely energizes me after the holiday break. We weren’t short of inspiration. The world has given us a far from a blank canvas on which to illustrate our Trends and in particular, conversations around AI have firmly evolved from future-gazing to wrestling with the formula for harnessing its power.

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.

Supercharge your LLM Using Production Data Context

Are your LLM coding agents (like Cursor or Claude Code) hallucinating fixes because they don't know what's actually happening in production? In this video, Matt from Speedscale shows you how to bridge the gap between your local IDE and live production traffic using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Most observability tools just give you telemetry. Speedscale’s MCP server gives your agent the "inner workings" of actual API calls and payloads, so it can check its assumptions against reality. No more "vibe-coding" and hoping it works; let your agent find the 500 errors and rate limits for you.