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The Open-Source BigQuery Sink Connector Saga

Oct 1, 2025 By Hugh Evans In Aiven
The BigQuery Sink connector is a critical piece of Kafka infrastructure that allows you to offload your Kafka topic data into BigQuery in real time. It is the third most-used connector among Kafka users (after the Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka and the original WePay sink connector), but it's not without its fair share of plot twists. Here's the story of how this connector switched hands three times and we ultimately ended up helping to re-build it.
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What's New in InfluxDB 3.5: Explorer Dashboards, Cache Querying, and Expanded Control

Sep 30, 2025 By Peter Barnett In InfluxData
InfluxDB 3.5 is now available for both Core and Enterprise, along with updates to the new Explorer UI that make it easier to save, organize, and query your data. This release highlights the biggest updates since our 3.4 release, including Explorer Dashboards in beta, new cache querying capabilities, and stronger operational tools for managing clusters. InfluxDB 3 Core is free and open source, optimized for recent data, and licensed under MIT and Apache 2.
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Turning Data into Dollars: How Expense Insights Drive Savings

Turning Data into Dollars: How Expense Insights Drive Savings

Sep 29, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In today's competitive business environment, every dollar counts. Companies face rising costs across nearly every area-operations, technology, compliance, and staffing. While most organizations already track expenses, not all of them take the next step: using expense data as a strategic tool. The difference between simply recording costs and analyzing them for insights is enormous. When data is harnessed effectively, it becomes more than just a ledger-it becomes a roadmap to savings and efficiency.
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Get Kafka-Nated Ep 7: Redpanda vs Kafka with Tristan Stevens

Sep 26, 2025 By Aiven In Aiven
Get Kafka-Nated Ep. 7 Thursday, September 25th 2025 Guest Focus: VP Global Customer Success at Redpanda Data, former Cloudera streaming expert Tristan Stevens from Redpanda Data will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Tristan brings a unique perspective, having led customer success for Hadoop ecosystems at Cloudera and now shaping next-generation streaming platforms at Redpanda.
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Welcome PostgreSQL 18: A New Era of Performance on Aiven

Sep 25, 2025 By Jeremy Heller In Aiven
Aiven is proud to launch the newest version of PostgreSQL, version 18, alongside with the open source community as the first managed PostgreSQL provider to support the latest version. This year we had three Aiveners join in on contributing to this major release, a trend which we hope to only see increase. Congrats to Patrick Stählin, Ronan Dunklau, and Thomas Krennwallner for your contributions to the codebase.
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Monitor your data pipelines with Airflow lineage

Sep 25, 2025 By Thomas Sobolik In Datadog
In complex data pipelines with dozens of jobs and intermediary datasets, it can be difficult to effectively monitor how data travels and changes through various steps. When tracking issues in these pipelines, you need visibility into upstream components where the root cause may originate from, as well as downstream datasets and consumers of data that may be experiencing further impacts.
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InfluxDB 3 Core: Open Source, Recent-Data Engine

Sep 25, 2025 By InfluxData In InfluxData
Dive into InfluxDB 3 Core, an open source, high-speed recent-data engine. InfluxDB 3 Core is an open source, high-performance real-time data engine (MIT/Apache 2 licensed). It’s built for real-time monitoring, edge data collection and transformation, sensor alerting, and streaming analytics with simplicity and speed.
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How Nexus BMS Uses Time Series and AI to Power Smarter Buildings

Sep 25, 2025 By Charles Mahler In InfluxData
Monitoring equipment isn’t enough for today’s smart buildings; true value comes from being able to predict issues, optimize performance, and take action automatically. Traditional building management systems often fall short, limited to dashboards and alarms that only notify you of an issue after the fact. With the rise of open source hardware, modern databases, and AI-driven diagnostics, facilities can now move from reactive to proactive management.
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Distinct Value Cache in InfluxDB 3

Sep 24, 2025 By InfluxData In InfluxData
The Distinct Value Cache in InfluxDB 3 speeds up metadata queries and tag value lookups for faster, more responsive UIs. The Distinct Value Cache in InfluxDB 3 delivers sub-30 ms lookups for tag values and series metadata, making exploratory queries and UI dropdowns quick and responsive. By reducing latency on these common operations, it allows developers to build real-time monitoring and analytics tools without extra complexity.
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