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Ep 37: Robbing banks is now a work from home job

In this episode of Masters of Data, we explore how banks and fintech companies have traded friendly neighborhood tellers for data-driven, always-on digital fortresses. We unpack everything from sophisticated phishing schemes and viral TikTok check fraud trends to the AI-powered tools that now handle the fraud detection Shirley the bank teller used to manage through sheer familiarity. We make the case that financial institutions today face more pressure than ever to be trustworthy, secure, and seamless all at once, whether their customers are logging into a sleek app or calling a landline to pay two bills a month.

Paris | Observability Unleashed - Boostez vos opérations IT, DevOps & SRE

La complexité des environnements IT ne cesse de croître. La visibilité en temps réel n'est plus une option. Le 14 avril 2026, Stéphane Estevez , EMEA Observability Market Advisor chez Splunk, vous invite chez Cisco à Paris pour un événement dédié à l'observabilité, avec les équipes Splunk & Cisco. Au programme : Observabilité assistée par l'IA Stratégies de données intégrées OpenTelemetry simplifié De la donnée à l'action, avec des cas concrets et démos live Observabilité pour l'IA et par l'IA.

KubeCon Europe 2026: OpenTelemetry Recap from Amsterdam

The reason why I like writing recap articles is because AIs don’t have enough context to write them for us. You have to be there, in person, listen to sessions, interact in the hallways with the community, and absorb as much new knowledge as possible. That’s what I did last week in Amsterdam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe ‘26. Well, at least I tried to. Let me break down what I consider the most interesting topics were last week.

Unified Logging for a Single Source of Truth

In Star Trek, the Borg are a cybernetic alien organism that forcibly assimilates other beings and technologies into its hivemind called “The Collective.” Each assimilated being or technology becomes part of the unified consciousness, with the villainous Borg Queen as the leaders. As the only independent thinker, the Borg Queen leads this rapidly adapting Collective.
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From Silos to Collaboration: How to Democratize Data in Product Analytics

Companies who develop software products generate massive quantities of product performance and user engagement data that can be analyzed to support decision-making about everything from feature planning and UX design to sales, marketing, and customer support. Leveraging product data throughout the enterprise represents a significant opportunity to achieve a competitive advantage, but challenges like siloed data systems, poor data literacy, and the complexity of data analytics in the cloud can prevent organizations from making full use of their raw data.

Ep 36: Do not resuscitate: Legacy tech in modern medicine

In this episode of Masters of Data, we dig into the cybersecurity nightmare that is modern healthcare IT, from ransomware attacks shutting down entire hospitals to IoT medical devices running software older than some of our passwords. We explore why healthcare organizations make such attractive targets for cybercriminals, and why the combination of life-or-death stakes, skeleton-crew security teams, and Windows-95-era equipment is a recipe for chaos.

Digital Trading: Why "Healthy Systems" Still Lose Trades

Digital trading firms operate in environments where milliseconds determine profit and loss. During volatile market conditions, platforms can appear fully operational while execution quality quietly degrades. When prices shift in so quickly, even a minor drift in your order-routing path means your competitors are exploiting the delta, while your platform appears perfectly green. For trading firms, observability is not just about uptime.