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SmartBear Recognized as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management

We’re proud to share that Gartner has recognized SmartBear as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management. We believe this recognition reflects our dedication to API development teams and to delivering practical solutions that drive excellence. APIs are essential, allowing businesses to move faster, integrate easily, and deliver the best experiences for their customers.

Agentic QA as a Quality Operating Model

By now, most teams experimenting with AI-augmented testing have started with narrow, tactical use cases: writing test cases faster, summarizing logs, or tagging defects. These are useful — and they build trust in the tech. But true value emerges when you stop thinking of agents as plug-ins, and start thinking of them as a virtual QA team, a set of coordinated roles that evolve how testing is done, how it’s governed, and how it delivers value across the delivery lifecycle.

Kamal 2: Deploying multiple apps

Deploying more than one web application on a single server used to require a lot of infrastructure fiddling. Docker made this better, but some things that are new in Kamal 2 make deploying containerized applications even easier. Kamal is a deployment tool from Basecamp that leans on Docker and its own integrated proxy to simplify deploying web apps. Kamal 2 makes deploying more than one Rails app to the same server easier.

Your "Technical Debt" is a LIE! Meet QA Debt.

The REAL reason your system WILL FAIL. We all talk about technical debt, but QA Debt is the silent killer costing companies millions. It's the accumulation of skipped regression checks, outdated test suites, and ignored production data. The result? Unpredictable, catastrophic outages that can sink your business (and your career!). Learn how to identify and pay down your QA Debt before it's too late. It's not about testing more it's about testing SMARTER.

Speedboats vs. Oiltankers: : Why adaptive architecture beats traditional speed-versus-quality trade-offs

It’s Tuesday morning; the data team at a Fortune 500 manufacturing giant receives an urgent request from the sales organization. Customer territories need to be recalibrated based on real-time market dynamics, competitive intelligence requires immediate integration from external sources, and the executive team demands updated revenue projections by Friday's board meeting.

Live Stream Fridays (Pilot): Beginner Tips for the Layout Container in Qlik Cloud

Our first Live Stream Friday is here! In this pilot session, Mike Tarallo introduces the Layout Container and shares some beginner-friendly tips and tricks to get started. It’s a low-key, interactive test run — so come hang out, ask questions, and let us know what you think.