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Exciting news for developers and Qlik users! Did you know you can now embed Qlik Answers Assistants seamlessly into your own applications? Whether you’re looking for a quick integration or full customization, we’ve got you covered: Easy Embed – Use qlik-embed tags to drop in pre-configured Qlik Answers Assistants with minimal effort. Full Customization – Leverage the Qlik Answers APIs to tailor the look, feel, and functionality to perfectly match your brand.

This week we release a new solution that makes it easier for companies to access data stored in on-premises file systems and network drives from Qlik Cloud. Introducing our new File Connector for the Direct Access – Data Gateway. Our new File Connector available with the Direct Access Data Gateway acts as a bridge, allowing secure connections to these on-premises and network data sources, simplifying the process of migrating existing on-premises data and applications to the cloud.

After going legally blind at 21, Chad Foster’s life flipped on its head. He had to re-learn how to be an active participant in society, starting with finishing his university degree. His life-altering experience at 21 had changed the course of Chad’s life, teaching him to crave the uncomfortable experiences because that’s where growth lies.

We’re diving even deeper into the fundamentals of data streaming to explore stream processing—what it is, the best tools and frameworks, and its real-world applications. Our guests, Anna McDonald, Distinguished Technical Voice of the Customer at Confluent, and Abhishek Walia, Staff Customer Success Technical Architect at Confluent, break down what stream processing is, how it differs from batch processing, and why tools like Flink are game changers.

How do you build systems that keep up with a nonstop flood of data? Anna McDonald, Distinguished Technical Voice of the Customer at Confluent, explains how.

When teams use different programming languages, code becomes territorial. Your code. My code. Your problem. My problem. But when teams align on a single language, those barriers disappear. Suddenly, collaboration is effortless. Debugging isn’t someone else’s job—it’s everyone’s. As Selenium developers, every feature has to work across five languages. AI helps bridge the gap, but the real game-changer? A shared language that makes moving across the codebase seamless.

AI is being treated as a shortcut for quality. Is that a dangerous gamble? There are a few industry-wide experiments happening right now: Developers are being pushed to own quality, but without dedicated testers, gaps are forming. AI is being used as a crutch for testing, but can it actually replace critical thinking? The real risk? We won’t know how badly this approach fails until it’s too late.