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In this episode of the Google Cloud Marketplace Marvels series, theCUBE Research’s John Furrier talks to Shaun Clowes, CPO of Confluent, and Stephen Orban, VP of migrations, ISVs, and marketplace, Google Cloud at Google. Clowes highlights the strategic partnership with Google Cloud, emphasizing seamless integration, scalable solutions and flexibility in marketplace consumption models. Together, they explore the platform’s impact on AI initiatives, enterprise analytics and rapid IT modernization, demonstrating how businesses can build next-generation data infrastructures one step at a time.

Speedscale's proxymock is a free VS Code plugin that passively listens to transactions, so developers can replay past responses or inbound transactions like a time machine. Past transactions can serve as non-rate-limited service mocks, editable databases, or even regression/load/chaos tests. Building service mocks to serve as service virtualization/mocks can be time consuming and manual. Maintaining complex, shared environments for engineering incurs expensive cloud costs and aren't often accurate.

API for Snowflake with no-code required. Instantly generate a fully documented and secure REST API for Snowflake as an alternative to the Snowflake REST API and Snowflake SQL API.

For the inaugural episode of Women Leaders in Technology on The AI Forecast, we’re joined by one of the top female leaders in the technology industry, Kari Briski - Vice President of AI Software Product Management at NVIDIA. Kari shares the stories and strategies that inform her leadership style–like GSD or “getting stuff done”–what it means to trust your instinct, and the advice she gives to young women embarking on a career in tech and to women further along who feel stuck where they are.

AI has made waves in testing, but how much has really changed? In this episode of Test Case Scenario, Jason Baum, Evelyn Coleman, and Marcus Merrell take a critical look at the progress of AI in software testing. They discuss the real capabilities of tools like ChatGPT and Copilot, what’s improved over time, and what still leaves testers frustrated. You’ll also hear insights into how AI tools are shaping software development workflows, why cost and sustainability are becoming bigger concerns, and what testers can do to separate AI hype from practical solutions.

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