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You already know Talend can do more than most teams ask of it. The real question, the one every data engineering group is working through right now, is how to get there. How do you promote jobs through fully automated pipelines? How do you build test automation that holds up against real, changing data? How do you move workloads forward faster and with greater reliability?
Qlik Talend Unlocked is where we answer those questions together, alongside the teams already doing the work.
Over the past year, Qlik has invested heavily in the capabilities that make Talend a modern data engineering platform: CI/CD driven release workflows, native testing support in Talend Studio, and tooling that moves workloads forward without a rewrite. The capabilities are here today. What separates the teams getting real value from them is knowing how to architect around them.
That is what this series is built to do: help organizations modernize and optimize their enterprise data integration environments on Talend, and improve agility, scalability, and operational efficiency in the process. Every month we bring in practitioners who have put these capabilities into production, and we walk through exactly how they did it, the approaches that worked, the trade-offs they made, and the results they can measure. New episodes land monthly, covering the full modern Talend lifecycle, with practical guidance you can take straight back to your own environment.
Every episode follows the same simple format. We lead with a problem you already recognize, show real approaches that teams are running in production, and leave genuine time for your questions. No fluff, let's roll up our sleeves and tackle the subject head on! Think of it as a smart colleague showing you something useful over coffee.
The series is already underway. Episode one is available on demand right now, episode two is open for registration, and new episodes land every month. Here is what is live, and what is next.
Presented by Qlik Enterprise Architect Jan Bernhardt, this session is a working blueprint for managing the Talend software development lifecycle with real CI/CD discipline: a Git centric source of truth for metadata and job designs, the Talend Maven plugin for standardized builds and dependency management, and the Talend Management Console APIs as the control plane for promotions across environments.
Jan walks through a zero install build strategy that provisions the Talend CommandLine dynamically during the pipeline, so you stop maintaining permanent installations on build agents. He shows intelligent delta build execution that runs a git diff to find changed items, maps them to their Maven modules, resolves the dependency tree to identify master Jobs, and compiles only what actually changed.
On quality and security, the session covers automated code scanning before merge, OWASP vulnerability scanning at the package phase, and JUnit plus end to end integration tests running on dedicated UAT environments. And it lays out the full release pipeline, from scan and build through CVE check and staged promotion to UAT and production, with approval gates and an immutable Git audit trail at every step.
We are honest about the hard parts too, from corporate proxies that block Maven plugins to monolithic builds and pipeline drift, and it closes with a live GitHub Actions reference solution you can model your own pipeline on. The measured payoff: deployment cycles that once took days now run in minutes, plus the ability to mass rebuild your entire job portfolio to roll out security patches on demand.
Test automation is where most data teams have the most room to grow, regardless of platform, and it is one of the highest leverage practices you can adopt. This session shows you how to build reliable, black box tests for Talend Jobs directly in Studio. We cover a standardized test lifecycle, job designs built to be testable from the start, a clear line between what belongs in CI versus CD, and the practical Studio techniques that keep tests stable as your data and jobs evolve. Live demos run throughout, so you see the approach applied rather than described.
The result is testing that goes from hours of manual validation per release to minutes of structured, repeatable execution you can trust.
Talend Unlocked runs monthly, and the full arc is already mapped across six topics that span the modern Talend lifecycle:
Register once for the series and you are set for every session as it lands, with the newest topics reaching your inbox first. If there is a problem your team is working through, it is exactly the kind of thing a future episode is built to tackle.
Talend teams everywhere are hitting the same inflection point at the same time. CI/CD is becoming the default, test automation is moving from nice to have to expected, and migration timelines are tightening. The capabilities to meet all of it are in the platform today. What has been missing is a shared, practical view of how the best teams are putting them to work.
That is exactly what Qlik Talend Unlocked provides, and it reflects a simple commitment: Qlik is invested in Talend's future, and we want every customer to get the full value of what the platform can now do.
Everything is free for Talend Cloud and on premises customers. Start with Episode 1 on demand today, then register for the upcoming sessions so you are set for each one as it goes live. Each session runs about 45 minutes with live Q&A.
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Every date, time, and detail lives on the series landing page. If you want to register your team as a group or have questions about the content, your Customer Success Manager can help.