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dotConnect for Zoho CRM | Connect Zoho CRM to .NET Apps Easily

Bring Zoho CRM data into your.NET applications with dotConnect for Zoho CRM—a fast, reliable ADO.NET provider built for secure and efficient connectivity. Set up in minutes using a Windows installer or NuGet, then explore and manage your CRM data from Visual Studio. This video walks you through connecting via Server Explorer, authenticating with Interactive OAuth, running queries through standard ADO.NET workflows, and integrating with popular ORMs like EF Core and Dapper.

Groq vs. GPUs: The future of AI inference in 2026

Back in 2016, Jonathan Ross founded Groq, the AI chip startup, which went on to enter a non-exclusive licensing agreement with NVIDIA for Groq’s inference technology (as part of a $20 billion deal). The name ‘Groq’ is commonly confused with X (formerly Twitter)’s Grok, which was launched in 2023 as a Gen AI chatbot. As demand for real-time AI continues to grow, inference has become one of the most important and expensive parts of the machine learning lifecycle.

£10M Investment in UK AI Infrastructure | Pulsant CEO Talks to Data Centre Solutions

Join Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland in an exclusive interview with Phil Alsop, Editor at Data Centre Solutions (@datacentres), as they explore Pulsant’s £10 million investment in the Milton Keynes data centre. This upgrade delivers high-density, sovereign computing capacity, helping businesses accelerate AI and tech projects while keeping data secure and local. Rob also shares plans to expand this high-density model across the UK, supporting enterprise AI at scale and boosting local economies.

Build Numbers That Actually Make Sense: Branch-Scoped Sequence IDs in Harness CI | Harness Blog

You're tagging Docker images with build numbers. -Build is your latest production release on main. A developer pushes a hotfix to release-v2.1, that run becomes build. -Another merges to develop, build. A week later someone asks: "What build number are we on for production?" You check the registry. -You see,,, on main. The numbers in between? Scattered across feature branches that may never ship. Your build numbers have stopped telling a useful story.

Women's Day Panel: Navigating the Future of Engineering in the Age of AI

How is AI reshaping engineering—and what does it mean for the future of work? At our first GTA Boston Hub event of the year, we brought together engineering leaders from Boston Consulting Group and Athenahealth to dive into one of the most pressing topics today: the rise of generative AI. In this panel, we explore: Key takeaway: This isn’t “human vs AI”—it’s human augmented by AI. The real advantage lies in how we adapt, collaborate, and lead in this new era.

Arazzo vs Traditional Chatbots: What Actually Works?

What happens when you give an AI agent hundreds of API endpoints and hope it figures out the right workflow? Spoiler: it nearly gets it right... but never reliably. In this talk, Frank Kilcommins (Head of Enterprise Architecture at Jentik and co-author of the Arazzo Specification) breaks down why API documentation quality is the core knowledge problem holding agentic systems back (and how Arazzo solves it).

The Secret to 10x Faster API Testing #speedscale #apitesting #api #automation #production

Stop living in the past. See how to use real production traffic to automate your API testing with zero code changes. Replay real-world patterns in your CI/CD and catch regressions before your users do. Learn more: speedscale.com.

Rob Zuber on quality, metrics, and what it means to move in the right direction at CircleCI

In this episode of Braintrust, Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI. Rob shares how the industry's move away from dedicated QA has cost teams more than they realize, and explains how AI is changing what good software quality actually looks like.