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Get Kafka-Nated S2E5: Nobody Understands Kafka Costs

In this episode of Get Kafka-Nated, host Hugh Evans is joined by Stanislav Kozlovski, Apache Kafka committer, independent consultant, and author of 2 Minute Streaming — a newsletter with over 7,000 subscribers. After six years at Confluent, including time on the Kafka Serverless team, Stan went independent and has been writing and consulting full-time. He's one of the most recognised voices in the Kafka community, with over 50k followers across social media. In this session we go somewhere the streaming industry rarely goes honestly: Kafka costs.

Community Spotlight: A Native iOS App for Your InfluxDB Data

One of the things we love most about building an open source platform is seeing what the community creates with it, and independent developer Anton Havekes recently built something we just had to share. Anton put together Influx Dashboard, a native iOS app that connects to your InfluxDB instance and brings your time series data straight to your phone. We’re genuinely thrilled to see this kind of work come out of the community.

A Developer's Guide to Aiven Apps

We recently announced the Limited Availability (LA) launch of Aiven Apps, which lets teams define, run, and scale production-ready, real-time applications using container and Compose-based workflows they already know. It provides a managed, stateless runtime that runs directly inside your data perimeter, letting you deploy applications alongside open-source data services like PostgreSQL and Apache Kafka.

How Ecommerce Brands Track Regional Price Differences Online

Many online stores display different prices depending on the user's location. The same product may cost less in Eastern Europe, more in the United States, and have completely different discounts in Germany or France. There are several reasons for this: This is especially common in marketplaces, electronics, fashion, and travel-related ecommerce. For international brands, understanding these pricing differences has become an important part of market analytics.

5 Best Embedded Systems Development Companies with In-House Lab Infrastructure

Embedded programs often fail because hardware is not properly validated. In-house lab infrastructure is a strong sign that a development partner owns validation, speeds up iteration, and reduces accountability gaps. The embedded systems market was valued at $114.75 billion in 2025 and is projected to grow at a 7.10% CAGR through 2034, increasing demand for partners with in-house testing capability.

Sustainability as opportunity: a new collaboration between Aiven and OxygenIT

Many businesses see emissions reduction as a cost sink: assigning people, maintaining compliance, the hard labor of calculating carbon signatures. That view is out of date – and a new partnership between Aiven and data provider OxygenIT demonstrates why. Our premise: your carbon footprint isn't just about understanding emissions; it's about understanding your business. Today, we're announcing a new service that helps with both.

5 Leading Replacements for AWS DMS in Streaming Workloads

Streaming workloads impose different requirements than classic migration projects. A platform that can support a one-time move from one system to another is not always the right fit when data must flow continuously, stay current, recover cleanly, and serve downstream analytics, applications, or AI use cases without long delays. That is the real shift behind this category. The question is no longer only whether data can be replicated.

Building Real-Time Telemetry Pipelines for IRIG 106 compliance

Every second of a flight test produces a torrent of telemetry from engines, sensors, and control systems. Aerospace teams have captured this data for decades to verify performance and maintain safety, yet analysis often happens long after the mission ends. Engineers wait for downloads, conversions, and compliance checks before they can interpret results. That delay turns telemetry into a historical record instead of a feedback loop.

How Engineering and Ops Teams Use OKRs to Connect Technical Work to Business Outcomes

Engineering and operations teams have a measurement problem that most other functions don't. The technical metrics are excellent. Deployment frequency is up. MTTR is down. Uptime is at 99.97%. The CI/CD pipeline is running cleanly and the on-call burden has been reduced by 30% since the team adopted a proper incident management process. By every internal measure, the team is performing well. And yet, in the quarterly business review, the conversation keeps returning to the same uncomfortable question: what did engineering actually deliver for the business this quarter?

Addressing Cold Start problem in Travel Personalization for OTAs

In the high-stakes world of Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) like Expedia, Hopper, Priceline, and Airbnb, seconds matter. A traveler searching for a "beachfront stay in Hawaii" isn't just looking for a room — they are reacting to weather changes, fluctuating flight prices, and social media trends. Traditional travel platforms often rely on stale data: yesterday's search history or last week's preferences. To truly compete, travel platforms must pivot to Real-Time Context Engineering.