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Without Governance, AI Is Just Faster Failure

Kellyn Gorman is a Database and AI Advocate and Engineer at Redgate She's the previous director of Data and AI at Silk, and the Oracle SME in Azure at Microsoft. With a robust background in cloud technology and a passion for promoting its merits and potential, I am thrilled to spearhead conversations and actions that help shape the future of this industry. Kellyn has authored numerous technical books, white papers and solution repositories in GitHub on database, AI and engineering topics.

How Real-Time Lending Decisions Are Improving Through AI

Lending companies are changing fast because of artificial intelligence. In the past, loan decisions could take days or even weeks. Now, many lenders can approve or reject applications in seconds. This shift is mainly driven by better data access, automation, and smarter decision systems. AI helps lenders understand risk more clearly and make decisions in real time. It also improves customer experience by making borrowing faster and simpler.

Why Lawn Care Companies Need Better Operations Management to Scale

Scaling a green industry business looks straightforward until your crew count doubles, and routing slips start vanishing into thin air. Adding more trucks feels like progress, but it often just multiplies the noise without moving the margin needle. True growth requires transitioning from reactive management to absolute field control, shifting your focus from surviving the current season to building repeatable operational equity. Talk about breaking the ceiling of field chaos long term.

Fixing 403 auth errors when you replay traffic

Trigger warning: this one is about Java, authentication, and Docker Compose files. If that is not your thing, I am sorry, but they are part of life and they are honestly not that hard to work with. Everything here is open source on our GitHub repo, so you can follow along. Recording an authenticated Java flow, replaying it, hitting the dreaded 403, and fixing it with a proxymock recommendation.

Capture once, test forever

We’ve gotten used to understanding our applications through signals, summaries, and traces. Tiny little bits of information about how the app really works. Not because that’s the best way to do it, but because it’s been too hard to get the real thing. The real information exists. It’s on the network. How people called your app and what your code did. What other systems it called, the database queries it made, and the result sets that came back.

How AI is Reshaping IT Operations Management

AI is transforming IT operations through automated incident response, intelligent event correlation, predictive analytics, and agentic AI. But while technology is evolving rapidly, human judgment and strategic decision-making remain essential. In this video, explore what's changing in IT operations, what isn't, and how IT leaders can prepare for an AI-driven future with AIOps, observability, and automation. Learn how Motadata helps organizations build smarter, more proactive IT operations.