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A Guide to P4 for Visual Studio Plugin | Microsoft Visual Studio Version Control

A Guide to P4 for Visual Studio Plugin (P4VS) | Microsoft Visual Studio Version Control Join Jackie Garcia, Principal Solution Engineer at Perforce Software, for an in-depth guide on using P4 for Visual Studio (P4VS) 2025.2. If you’ve used P4VS in the past, this new update delivers significant performance improvements: large projects load up to 15x faster, unloading is instantaneous, and freeze issues are resolved.

Seamless SSO: How to Integrate Okta (SAML 2.0) with DreamFactory

In today’s environment of distributed applications and microservices, unified identity and access management are essential. If you’re working with DreamFactory as your API-platform and want to leverage Okta for Single-Sign-On (SSO) via SAML 2.0, you’re in the right place. This post walks you through setting up Okta as your Identity Provider (IdP) and DreamFactory as your Service Provider (SP) for SAML 2.0-based login.

Automating PDF Testing: From Manual Checks to Comprehensive Validation

PDF documents play a critical role in various industries, serving as the final output for customer-facing documents such as invoices, contracts, and compliance reports. However, testing these documents poses significant challenges due to their complex nature, which includes mixed content, dynamic data, and strict formatting requirements. Manual testing of PDFs is not only time-consuming but also prone to human error, making automation an essential component of a robust testing strategy.

Engineering the Path to Autonomous Quality

AI has rewritten the rules of software development. Developers can now generate, fix, and ship code in seconds. This is transformative, but as shared by SmartBear CEO Dan Faulkner, “The tools that help us build software are advancing much faster than the tools that ensure we can trust it.” For software quality to keep up with AI coding, today’s tools must evolve to remain effective. SmartBear is answering this call.

StartupSpot: ThoughtSpot Agentic Analytics at Startup Prices

In the world of early-stage startups, the real enemies aren’t competitors. It’s time, focus, and credibility. You’re racing to ship fast, protect runway, and look enterprise-ready long before you actually are. And in 2025, every serious buyer expects your product to have native, AI-powered analytics built in. Not basic dashboards, but a polished, conversational, ask-anything, data experience that delivers trusted answers.

LIVE from Current NOLA: Scaling Streaming in the AI Era | Life Is But A Stream

From the heart of the expo hall at Current NOLA, this special episode drops you into the conversations, energy, and the breakthroughs as they happened. Host, Joseph Morais, and co-host, Adi Polak talk with data streaming leaders and community voices to unpack how teams are using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink to power low-latency, AI-ready applications—covering patterns from usage-based billing and hybrid operations to cost efficiency and streaming governance. You’ll also hear how shift-left processing and governance make AI-ready data possible at scale.