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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is reshaping connectivity across Asia, Africa and Europe, creating new opportunities for trade, innovation and digital growth. Last year saw record BRI engagement, with USD128.4 billion in construction contracts and around USD85.2 billion in investments.

When Anthropic broke the news of Mythos and Project Glasswing, the security community did what it always does. It published a flurry of papers asking "What does this mean for security?" It's a reasonable instinct, but it's the wrong question. The real question is who actually owns the problem?

Releasing new software used to be a big deal. You would set aside a Saturday night, wake up the on-call engineer, push the code, and hope that nothing broke before Monday morning. Then came feature flags, which changed everything without anyone noticing. Feature flags let you separate deployment from release, so you can send code to production in a dormant state and turn it on for users when you're ready. No more 1 a.m. maintenance windows.

Modern data platforms are evolving rapidly, and Google Cloud BigQuery has become a core part of analytics, AI, and large-scale reporting architectures. Teams (including Harness) rely on BigQuery to process and analyze massive datasets, but managing schema changes in a secure, repeatable way can still be challenging.

Moving to a new platform shouldn't mean weeks of migration work before you see any value. Qovery now lets you connect your ArgoCD server and manage your existing applications directly alongside your Terraform modules, lifecycle jobs, and Qovery-native services, from a single control plane. Alessandro leads product at Qovery. He drives the changelog, roadmap, and product strategy - turning customer feedback into platform capabilities.

AI agents can write code faster than any developer. But for most teams, the feedback loop hasn’t kept pace. The agent generates code, pushes it to CI, and minutes later a full pipeline run catches a simple linting error or a failing unit test. By then the agent has moved on. Getting back to a working state means rebuilding context from scratch and burning tokens just to fix something that should never have shipped in the first place.

Consolidation is reshaping the experimentation and feature management landscape. Tools are merging, and partnerships are being repackaged as platforms. But marketing a unified experience is not the same as building one. Right now, engineering leaders and product managers are reassessing whether the tools they depend on are built for the long term. It’s irrelevant which vendor has the most products.