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Kristyna Ferris turned down grad school, learned Power BI, moved into the data world - and never looked back. In this chat with Steve Jones, Kristyna explains why she did it, what she’s learned, and even why her first DBA changed her password! Plus: being a Microsoft MVP, the importance of self-learning, being inspired to get involved with the community, and Kristyna’s passion for Lego, movies, and more!

Stop letting broken downstream dependencies kill your workflow. Use proxymock to record backend data and inbound calls, then flip on a mock whenever a system goes offline. You can even replay traffic to test your code changes and ensure your endpoints are still working perfectly.

Hywel Carter on the mental model that travels with you no matter what ships next.

AI agents write code fast, but the feedback loop usually can't keep up. In this tutorial, you'll see how to wire Chunk sidecars into your agent's hooks so basic failures get caught before they ever reach your CI pipeline. We'll walk through the two hooks that chunk init writes automatically: Both hooks return exit 2 on failure, blocking the commit or keeping the turn open so the agent can fix its own mistakes with no manual prompting required.