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Modern software has a lot of dependencies: software libraries, OS packages, container images, and orchestration scripts. At scale artifact registries become a bottleneck, slowing down CI/CD pipelines and decreasing developer efficiency. Caching artifacts near where they’re needed reduces latency, cost, and load. Learn how to leverage artifact caching by deploying a Virtual Registry.

• Identify and eliminate artifact bottlenecks in CI/CD pipelines & development workflows
• Reduce latency, scale dependency resolution and boost developer productivity by using the artifact caching capabilities of a virtual registry
• Cut egress, infrastructure, and license costs while scaling artifact registries.

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Speaker:
Thijs Feryn - Technical Evangelist @ Varnish Software

As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media. Thijs is a published author and wrote Getting Started with Varnish Cache and Varnish 6 by Example. As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 380 presentations in 26 different countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style.

As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP community. He has contributed to various communities for over 15 years both technically and as an organizer and facilitator. Prior to joining Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn spent 15 years in the web hosting industry, tackling web performance and scalability issues on a daily basis and evangelizing these topics.

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Do you really need to spin up dozens of near-prod environments to support your developers? Spoiler: you don't.

Most teams spin up isolated development environments for each developer which are expensive, hard to maintain, and often not even faithful to production. In this webinar, we'll show you how mirrord lets every developer safely treat your shared staging environment as their own, directly from their local machine. No more sky-high infra bills. No more surprise bugs in prod.

Join us to learn how you can:

• Let devs test against staging safely, without affecting each other's work
• Run code locally but have it behave like it was running in your staging environment
• Reduce infra complexity and cost by consolidating environments

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.
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Speaker:
Arsh Sharma - Senior DevRel @ MetalBear

Arsh is a Senior DevRel Engineer at MetalBear and a CNCF Ambassador. He has previously been awarded the Kubernetes Contributor Award. He loves tinkering with new projects in the cloud ecosystem and writing about his learnings. He has worked in the platform engineering space during the last three years and was part of the open-source Kubernetes team at VMware prior to that. He has also contributed to CNCF projects such as cert-manager and Kyverno. Arsh has written blogs and delivered talks on various topics in the cloud ecosystem.

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Agentic AI for test data generation has arrived - but what does the ideal process look like and how will it fit within your workflows? Join synthetic data pioneer Mark Brocato as he spotlights the latest capabilities of Tonic Fabricate and speaks candidly on the potential and pitfalls of AI-driven data generation. With the right tools in place, the test data you need is just an AI conversation away.

• The pros and cons of various synthetic data strategies: Understand the trade-offs between rule-based synthesis, data de-identification, and Agentic AI to select the right fit for your workflows.
• How to generate highly realistic, nuanced data: Learn how Agentic AI creates complex test data for development and testing, significantly reducing the need for deep domain expertise.
• Actionable best practices and use cases: Determine the optimal AI approach for specific development needs, from prototyping to greenfield development, and performance to load testing.

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Speaker:
Mark Brocato - Head of Engineering for Fabricate @ Tonic.ai

Mark Brocato is a software developer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Mockaroo, one of the world’s leading synthetic data generators, launched in 2014. The idea for Mockaroo came while Mark was watching QA engineers struggle to test complex life science workflows at a startup called BioFortis, inspiring him to make realistic test data easier for everyone. With over two decades in software development, he’s built tools for developers at Sencha, Layer0, and beyond. In 2024, Mark launched Fabricate, the AI-powered synthetic data platform that was acquired by Tonic.ai in 2025, where Mark continues to lead its development. A Ruby, JavaScript, and Rust developer, he divides his time between Sparta, New Jersey, and Tallinn, Estonia.