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Season 2 of Get Kafka-Nated kicks off with Giannis Polyzos, member of the Fluss PMC, for a deep dive into one of data infrastructure’s longest-running debates: streaming vs. batch, or both? What we’ll cover: Timestamps: Useful links.

Post-mortems are required, time-consuming, and widely disliked — but they’re also one of the biggest opportunities to improve reliability. In this webinar, we talked about how to run post-mortems that actually lead to learning and improvement. This covered why most post-mortems fall flat, how to structure them effectively, and walk through a real example to show what good looks like in practice. The goal: fewer wasted hours, better outcomes, and post-mortems that actually matter.

Knowing how to take advantage of automations is a massive part of maintaining your sanity when running an IT organization. Between automating technical workflows and creating templates for your people management processes, there are so many opportunities for you to make your IT life easier with automation! As always, we have hosted a panel of IT leaders that discussed their own automations and how it saves them time. If you have any that you'd like to share, feel free to leave them in the comments.

Rewrite inefficient SQL Server queries in seconds—not hours. In this demo, we show you how AI Query Assist in SolarWinds SQL Sentry transforms the way you tune performance. Watch how to take a problematic query from the "Top SQL" view and use generative AI to instantly generate optimized rewrites and uncover missing indexes. What you will see: Instant Optimization: How to automate query rewriting and get plain-language explanations of the logic changes.

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