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Why SSIS will never die - with Tim Mitchell

Steve is joined by business intelligence architect and author Tim Mitchell. They discuss why SSIS will never die, the general pros of cons of integration services, the evolution from XML to JSON, how AI can help with coding, and taekwondo – among other topics! Recorded on-site at PASS Data Community Summit 2025.

The Analyst View on Data Sovereignty with TechMarketView

Perspectives from the Edge: Episode 2 Data sovereignty isn't a solo effort. It's a symphony. Data sovereignty is moving fast up the agenda. But who's orchestrating it? The second episode of Perspectives from the Edge explores the subject through an analyst’s laser lens, in conversation with Kate Hanaghan, Chief Research Officer at TechMarketView. Find out how AI and platform consolidation make data harder to control, how to bake sovereignty into your business from the start – and why the organisations getting it right treat ecosystems as a strategy, not just a procurement exercise.

How Developers Build a Meaningful Career in the Age of AI

What does a meaningful developer career look like in the age of AI? We brought together four experts to answer exactly that. In this GitKon panel, GitKraken CMO Kate Adams moderates a conversation with Leon Noel (Managing Director of Engineering, Resilient Coders), Danny Thompson (Director of Technology and host of The Programming Podcast), Maggie Hunter (Recruitment Lead, GitKraken), and Dimitry Fonarev (CEO, Testkube) to explore how software engineers can future-proof their careers, grow their skills, and navigate an industry that is changing fast.

Cortex and Syntasso join forces to bridge the gap between automation and visibility

I've spent a lot of time talking to platform teams who feel like they're running in circles. They build incredible automation to speed up service delivery, but even when it's running perfectly, nobody actually knows what's happening across the organization. It's hard to see who owns which service or if those services even meet basic company standards. Automation's a great start, but it usually hits a wall when you try to scale it.

The platform engineering playbook for velocity, quality, and AI readiness at SIXT

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Boyan Dimitrov, CTO at SIXT. Boyan shares how SIXT went from releasing software once or twice a month to nearly 10,000 deployments per month, and explains the platform engineering philosophy that made it possible.