As you move more of your workloads to the cloud, cloud infrastructure costs can quickly become a significant expense. To efficiently and successfully run your applications in the cloud, it’s crucial to take a look at your overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) from multiple lenses. In this fireside chat, Mike Zimberg, CTO at Digital Asset Research shares how they achieved a 99.99% uptime, while lowering their managed Apache Kafka® costs by 10% and improving their performance by 10x. Heikki Nousiainen, Aiven’s field CTO and co-founder, shares his expertise in the discussion as well.