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Now that AI coding tools have put development capabilities into more hands, prototypes are becoming business-critical applications almost overnight. Shanea Leven sees an opportunity for a new generation of builders, provided the infrastructure around their applications keeps pace. Shanea explains how organizations can give developers and new technical employees room to build while maintaining the standards required for enterprise software..

Fivetran vs Talend in 2026: Which ETL Tool Is Better? Fivetran and Talend follow different approaches to data integration. Fivetran focuses on managed, warehouse-first ELT with automatic connector maintenance and schema handling. Talend supports ETL, ELT, data quality, governance, APIs and hybrid deployment across cloud and on-premises environments.

Fully managed Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink combines Flink SQL for data engineers with programmatic capabilities like the Table API, User-Defined Functions (UDFs), and Process Table Functions (PTFs) for developers. You can build mission-critical use cases with programmatic capabilities while using familiar dbt- and SQL-based workflows.

Perform robust real-time forecasting on your Kafka data streams using IBM Granite Time Series models TTM, FlowState, PatchTST-FM right in Flink. Get started easily with zero-config, model flexibility, and lower cost in fully managed Confluent Cloud.

What's new in Q3'26: Real-time anomaly detection and forecasting with IBM Granite Time Series models and Google TimesFM model, upserts for Real-Time Context Engine to maintain fresh context for AI, and lightning queries to instantly serve the current state of the business for operational apps, analytics, and more.