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In this episode of Get Kafka-Nated, host Hugh Evans is joined by Stanislav Kozlovski, Apache Kafka committer, independent consultant, and author of 2 Minute Streaming — a newsletter with over 7,000 subscribers. After six years at Confluent, including time on the Kafka Serverless team, Stan went independent and has been writing and consulting full-time. He's one of the most recognised voices in the Kafka community, with over 50k followers across social media. In this session we go somewhere the streaming industry rarely goes honestly: Kafka costs.

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DORA metrics in the AI era reveal a paradox: PR volume is climbing, but deployment frequency is staying flat. In this talk, GitKraken's Director of Product Jeff Schinella breaks down why AI-accelerated code generation is creating a review bottleneck that your DORA metrics can't fully explain on their own. Jeff walks through how PR metrics (cycle time, first response time, code churn, and PR size) serve as the leading indicators behind your DORA data. If your deployment frequency is flat while PR counts go up, the bottleneck isn't your devs. It's your review capacity.

Investigations are time-sensitive, and analysts shouldn’t waste time recreating the same workflows or rewriting familiar queries. Whether troubleshooting infrastructure, investigating suspicious IPs, or analyzing host activity, teams often rely on duplicating old processes and copying query snippets — a slow, inconsistent approach that’s hard to scale.

This example hows how to use Harness CI/CD to build a Cobol application and deploy it to a mainframe running z/OS. We leverage IBM DBB and Wazi Deploy in this example.

Alloy Navigator Express 2026 is here! It now includes built-in dashboard analytics, enhanced reporting, a smarter AI Assistant, Outlook integration, and more. See the latest updates in action!

See the highlights of the latest Alloy Navigator release, the all-in-one ITSM and ITAM solution for modern IT teams. Built-in dashboard analytics, enhanced reporting, a smarter AI Assistant, and Outlook integration help you work faster, collaborate better, and make data-driven decisions with ease.

How do enterprises turn AI from experimental potential into real-world software delivery value — without slowing down, breaking security, or sacrificing reliability? At {unscripted} 2025, Amit Zavery — President, Chief Product Officer, and COO of ServiceNow — joined Harness CEO and Founder Jyoti Bansal for a candid fireside chat on the future of AI in the enterprise, the role of platforms in unlocking developer productivity, and why"AI-native" only works when speed, security, and reliability move together.

AI is transforming how businesses operate and leaders are being held to higher expectations. Service must be unified, intelligent, and resilient across your entire organization, not patched together and slowed down by legacy constraints. Learn how Atlassian’s AI-powered Service Collection, including Jira Service Management, Customer Service Management, Assets, and Rovo, enables teams to meet this moment.