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Join us for A Kristmas Kafka, an informal and deeply technical roundtable with Apache Kafka committers, contributors and community leaders. This conversation brings together the people closest to the Kafka codebase to reflect on where the project started, how it has evolved and what lies ahead for streaming systems.

In this special ShipTalk episode, host Dewan Ahmed (Principal Developer Advocate, Harness) sits down with @Harnessio Field CTO Nick Durkin for spicy—but practical—2026 predictions across AI, software delivery, DevSecOps, MLOps, and developer experience. Will we see the first “AI-caused meltdown”? Are AI “confidence scores” even trustworthy? Is 2026 the year of AI cleanup crews and recovery engineering? Nick’s take: the answer isn’t more gates—it’s guardrails, policy in the pipeline, and teams operating with the same “rulebook.”

AI didn’t just change how we write code. It changed everything that comes after. Application teams are shipping more code than ever with AI — but 70% of the work still happens after coding: testing, security, deployment, optimization, and keeping everything moving. As coding gets faster, delivery becomes the bottleneck. That’s where Harness comes in.

In this episode of the ShipTalk Podcast, host Dewan Ahmed (Principal Developer Advocate at Harness) sits down with Evgeny Ilinykh (Founder of GuidedMind.ai and former Tesla Engineering Manager) to move past the AI hype and get into the engineering reality of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). If your AI agents are hallucinating, the problem probably isn't your model—it’s your retrieval layer. Evgeny breaks down how to turn the "black box" of LLMs into a transparent, production-ready system that developers can actually trust.

You have the ideas, now learn how to turn them into production-ready AI agents. Join us on January 21st at 5:00 PM for a live webinar featuring Ben Norris, AI Engineer at Civo, and Sophia McKee, COO at Civo. We will demonstrate how to design, build, and deploy intelligent agents using n8n’s visual workflow automation platform, all powered by secure, UK-hosted infrastructure from relaxAI. You'll learn how to orchestrate tools, APIs, and LLMs to create scalable automations without needing deep coding expertise.