Boost BigQuery with Python: Managed Python UDFs now generally available
Managed Python User-Defined Functions (UDFs) in BigQuery let you define and execute Python scalar functions directly within your BigQuery SQL queries.
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How In-House Legal Counsel Supports Faster Business Decision-Making
Speed matters in business. The ability to move quickly on contracts, partnerships, hiring decisions, and commercial opportunities can be the difference between capturing a market opportunity and watching a competitor take it. But speed without legal oversight creates a different kind of problem - the kind that shows up months later in the form of a dispute, a compliance breach, or a contract that does not say what everyone thought it said.
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The Kubeshark Workflow That Doesn't Stop at the Dashboard
The Observability Gap shows up the moment you try to reproduce a production bug locally. Your traces tell you a request was slow. Your logs tell you which line printed. Neither tells you what was actually on the wire: the headers, the JSON body, the surprise field your client started sending last Tuesday. Until now, closing that gap meant SSHing to a node, attaching a debugger, or shipping a sidecar through change review.
Leveling up quality engineering for agentic development
In this guest post, Intellyx Principal Analyst Jason English explores what it takes to level up quality engineering in the age of agentic AI, and why visibility, context, and governance are the keys to getting there. One day in an agentic developer’s life: Developer “CodeBud agent, create me a suite of test cases to validate the feature you just built.” CodeBud Done. Test suite created.
The "SaaSpocalypse" and what it means for ERPs and quality assurance
In February, two CNBC journalists built a replica of Monday.com’s interface using Claude Code with no prior developer experience and less than $20 in credits. Software stocks at the time were already wobbly, with investors fearing that AI could erode seat-based pricing and undercut proprietary UI. To some, the CNBC news confirmed the speculation.
Vercel AI SDK in production: when DefaultChatTransport needs a session layer
You've built an AI chat app on the Vercel AI SDK. It works in development. The model responds, the stream comes through, and the UI updates cleanly. Then you ship to production, and the transport layer starts showing its edges. Most of these failures are quiet: things that work in demos and break in ways that are hard to pin down until you know where to look. They share a common cause: DefaultChatTransport is built for HTTP, and HTTP has structural properties that some production requirements exceed.
Snowflake CoCo: Welcome to the Agentic Enterprise
When business questions move faster than answers, teams need more than dashboards. They need AI agents that can break silos, add context, and turn trusted enterprise data into action. Meet Snowflake CoCo — built to help data teams and business users move from reactive reporting to strategic action. In the Agentic Enterprise, everyone can become a strategic force, shaping what the business does next.
From Kong Konnect to Insomnia: A Developer Workflow for Testing Gateway APIs
As API ecosystems grow, developers and platform teams often work in separate environments. Platform teams manage APIs, gateways, and governance centrally, while developers recreate those configurations locally for testing and debugging. Over time, this can lead to configuration drift, inconsistent workflows, and security gaps. The release introduces our first native Kong Konnect integration, allowing developers to discover, import, and test Gateway configurations directly from Konnect.
From Test Scripts to Test Goals: A Practical Guide to Agentic AI Testing
Is agentic AI testing more hype than substance? Clarifying what this category of software testing actually is, how it works in practice, and where it still falls short.