This is your chance to hear directly from Jonah Kowall, the VP of Product Management at Aiven, as he takes you on a journey through our dynamic platform and highlights the latest advancements we've made in the past six months. Not only will you get an exclusive look at all the exciting new features, but you'll also discover the contributions Aiven has made to open source communities like Kafka, OpenSearch, and PostgreSQL.

Pushing data in JSON format to an Apache Kafka topic is very common. However, dealing with messages not having a predefined structure can create some problems, specifically when trying to sink the data via connectors, like the JDBC sink, which require the knowledge of the message structure. Transforming the messages from JSON to AVRO can enforce a schema on messages and allow the usage of a bigger variety of connectors.

Experiencing Apache Kafka without a streaming dataset is impossible, and finding streaming datasets ready to be used with Kafka is quite difficult. This video showcases how you can start creating fake streaming data in minutes using Docker. CHAPTERS ABOUT AIVEN Aiven’s cloud data platform helps your business reach its highest potential by making your data work for you. It provides fully managed open source data infrastructure on all major clouds, helping developers focus on what they do best: innovate and create without worrying about the limitations of technology.

Drive programmatic stream processing at scale with Aiven for Apache Flink, the latest managed service from Aiven! Together with Aiven for Apache KafkaⓇ, Aiven for Apache Flink provides an end-to-end environment to ease the development of stream processing applications. Combine it with Aiven’s managed database and observability technologies, and you get a full cloud data platform ready to satisfy the demands of the modern technology organization.