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Get Kafka-Nated Ep. 10 Wednesday, November 5th 2025 Guest Focus: Co-Founder & CTO at OpsHelm, former Head of Infrastructure Engineering at ProdPerfect and Lead Engineer at Vivid Seats Kyle McCullough joins host Hugh Evans to explore what it takes to build real-time, multi-cloud streaming infrastructure at scale. As Co-Founder and CTO of OpsHelm, Kyle shares how his team processes hundreds of terabytes of cloud events daily, maintaining sub-second visibility while reducing streaming costs by 78% after migrating from MSK and NATS to Aiven Diskless Kafka.

Learn how to automatically close inactive connections in your Aiven for PostgreSQL service using pgBouncer’s idle timeout setting. In this demo, we’ll walk through the Aiven Console to adjust the server_idle_timeout value in pgBouncer’s advanced configuration, helping you optimise performance and free up resources by terminating idle connections faster.

Virtual Generated Columns are another new feature that we're exploring in PG18.

Learn how to set up a PostgreSQL service on Aiven in just one minute. This demo walks you through accessing your account, configuring your new service, and selecting the right options for your needs. We’ll cover selecting an immutable service name, picking the cloud provider and plan, and show how Aiven’s clear deployment feedback makes creating a scalable database fast and straightforward. Get your PostgreSQL database up and running quickly, so you can focus on building your applications.

How to Eliminate Overprovisioning for Kubernetes Applications.

How Companies Eliminate Resource Overprovisioning Once and For All.

30% of Your Spend on Kubernetes is Wasted—Here's Why.