Exploring Agentic Retrieval: Where AI Agents Meet RAG 🤖

Welcome to the 250th edition of Coding Jag brought to you by LambdaTest!👐

Enterprises are adopting smarter, faster AI solutions to deliver more efficient and effective experiences. Users now expect seamless, context-aware interactions, much like ChatGPT. This is where techniques like agentic retrieval help by replacing static, rule-based systems with intelligent agents. This can handle complex queries and make operations smoother.

But that’s not all. LambdaTest is now a strategic partner of Appium, a big win for the open-source QA community. Plus, the new multi-agent builder of watsonx Orchestrate lets businesses create AI agents with zero code. And there are even more interesting reads to explore!

Let’s get into it 👇

 News

1.   Announcing LambdaTest as Appium Strategic Partner 

🔥 Game-changing news for the testing community! LambdaTest has officially joined the Appium project as a Strategic Partner. After a year of driving innovation through Appium’s contributor compensation scheme, this milestone marks a major leap. LambdaTest is backing Appium not just financially, but also through active code contributions and project maintenance.

2. Get to Know watsonx Orchestrate 

🤯 Want to build AI agents that actually scale across enterprise systems? Vinicius Maidana introduces watsonx Orchestrate, a multi-agent platform combining pro-code (Python ADK) and no-code (Agent Builder) tools to streamline everything, from agent reasoning to voice interfaces and WhatsApp/Teams deployment. A must-read for anyone shaping the future of enterprise automation.

3. DuckDuckGo Browser's Scam Blocker Expands to Include Protection From More Threats 

🛡️ Think scam protection means giving up privacy? Think again. Peter Dolanjski reveals how DuckDuckGo’s upgraded Scam Blocker now shields you from phishing, fake crypto sites, scareware, and malware, without ever tracking your data. It’s anonymous, always-on, and free. A must-read for anyone serious about safe, private browsing.

4.  Celebrating Innovation, Scale, and Real-World Impact With Serverless Compute on Azure

🚀 Celebrating global impact through serverless innovation! Scott Hunter highlights how Microsoft’s Azure Functions and Container Apps are powering real-time AI experiences, from Coca-Cola’s holiday magic to Coldplay’s live shows and the NFL’s sideline insights. 

5.  Unify Your Security With the New AWS Security Hub for Risk Prioritization and Response at Scale (Preview)

🛡️ Struggling to manage cloud security across services and teams? Donnie Prakoso introduces the new AWS Security Hub (Preview), a unified dashboard with exposure analysis, attack path visualizations, and integrated threat insights from GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, and more. 

AI

6.  Fueld.AI’s Nutrition Coach With Firebase and Google Cloud 

🥗 How did a two-person team build a smart AI nutrition coach? Raïssa Tona shares how Fueld.AI built an AI nutrition coach that analyzes meals from photos, crafts custom recipes, and syncs real-time data with health pros. Using Firebase, Gemini 2.5, and Genkit, they scaled fast, without a full backend team.

7. AI Agents + RAG = Agentic Retrieval 

🔍 What happens when AI agents meet RAG? Cobus Greyling explores how Agentic Retrieval is transforming enterprise search! Learn how Kore.ai’s platform blends structured + unstructured data, adds contextual intelligence, and enables scalable, multimodal AI for smarter, faster support. A must-read for enterprise AI leaders.

Automation

8. City Furniture, a Million-Dollar Retailer, Achieves 40% Faster Test Execution in Biweekly Sprints

🎯 Discover how CITY Furniture , a $600M retailer with 24+ showrooms, modernized its QA operations by switching from an unstable legacy platform to LambdaTest’s testing infrastructure. Facing test execution delays and sluggish support, their team achieved 40% faster web test execution, 20% faster mobile testing, and 50% cost efficiency. 

9. Agents at Work: Putting MSSQL MCP Server Into Practice

🎤 Ever wished you could talk to your data instead of writing complex SQL? Arun Vijayraghavan shows exactly how MSSQL MCP Server unlocks conversational database interactions through the journey of Susan, an event manager. From building schemas to generating reports, just with prompts. A brilliant read to see AI agents simplify real-world data tasks!

10.  DNS Rebinding Attacks Explained: The Lookup Is Coming From Inside the House!

🧠 Thinking localhost is private? Think again. 📌 Jaroslav Lobačevski unpacks DNS rebinding attacks, a stealthy tactic letting malicious sites exploit your browser to reach internal apps. With examples like Deluge’s WebUI flaw, it’s a must-read for anyone building or testing local services.

11. Why Repetitive Manual Testing Is a Risk to Product Quality

😩 Tired of running the same test cases every sprint? Vladimir Josifoski explores why repetitive manual testing is quietly damaging your product’s quality. From overlooked bugs to QA burnout, he explains how automation can reclaim creativity, sharpen focus, and safeguard user experience.

12. Containers Are Available in Public Beta for Simple, Global, and Programmable Compute 

🚀 Ever wished you could spin up containers globally with just wrangler deploy? Gabriel Villalonga Simón and team announce Cloudflare Containers (Public Beta),  enabling on-demand, programmable compute right alongside Workers. From code sandboxes to media processing, it’s global, simple, and fast!

Tools

13. aialternative.co (Latest AI Tools)

🔍 Overwhelmed by the flood of AI tools? This platform helps you compare and discover top AI solutions, from chatbots to image generators to code assistants. Whether you're into productivity, creative work, or automation, explore tools like Slack AI, Heygen, Flowise, and more, all organized by use case. A great starting point for finding the perfect fit.

14. Agentic AI Tools in 2025 

🤖 Curious how businesses are actually using agentic AI in 2025? Vlad G. explores real-world tools that think, adapt, and act, without hand-holding. From sales to ops, learn how Make’s no-code agents empower smarter workflows, fast decisions, and seamless orchestration across 1,700+ apps.

Others

15. Podcast: Mastering Medical Device Testing With Priyank Soni 

🎙️ In this podcast, Joe Colantonio hosts Priyank Soni , a veteran R&D engineer in the medical device industry. They explore navigating strict regulatory standards (like ISO 13485), managing risk in legacy systems, and transforming manual QA into scalable cloud-based automation. 🎧 Listen now!

16. Video: Automate Complex API Tests With Just One Command 🤯

🎥 In this video by ExecuteAutomation, you'll learn how to automate complex API testing workflows using Playwright MCP Server, all with a single command! Discover how it works, how to set it up, and see real-world API tests run through natural language prompts. Ideal for QA engineers, testers, and devs exploring AI-powered automation. 🎯 Watch now!

Events

17. Event:  Modul ARCEVAL 

📅 Join us for an immersive two-day training event, Modul ARCEVAL, from 08–09 July 2025 in Berlin (NH Collection Berlin Mitte am Checkpoint Charlie) or online! Hosted by Matthias Bohlen, this hands-on workshop teaches you how to evaluate software architectures effectively, using both qualitative and quantitative methods like ATAM.

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