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Some queries are hard to solve with "basic" RAG. When questions require multi-step reasoning, full-document understanding (not just chunks), or aggregating many results that match specific criteria, simple retrieve-and-generate pipelines break down, we need agentic RAG. But this added capability comes at a cost: as agents plan, search, read, and iterate, they quickly use up a lot of context, which both degrades answer quality and increases costs and latency.

What does "Open Source" really mean in the age of AI? In the conclusion of her session at Civo Navigate India, OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock shares a fundamental truth for the global tech community. True openness is not about being local; it's about global collaboration and ensuring that technology is accessible for any purpose, without friction. As we build the next decade of innovation, the goal is to build better, together, across the planet.

In this episode, we sit down with Viktor Somogyi-Vass, a veteran of the Kafka ecosystem who recently joined Aiven after nearly a decade at Cloudera. Viktor shares his journey from becoming an Apache Kafka Committer to tackling the most complex challenges in modern cloud-native streaming. We dive deep into the architectural shift from traditional data centers to the cloud, exploring how Diskless Kafka (Disaggregated Storage) is slashing costs and why KIP-1134 is the next frontier for true multi-tenancy.

Try it open source on your system. Learn how tools can make gathering and making sense of observability data instant and painless with co-founder Peter Zaitsev.

The speakers Nikita Varentsov, Director of Engineering at Inkitt and Johan Jern, Co-founder and CTO at Realm will discuss their experiences on building data infrastructure for rapidly scaling companies with open source technologies. The conversation is led by Amine Slimane, Head of Solution Architects at Aiven.

Viktor Kessler is both co-founder of Vakamo, a company specialising in governance for Iceberg, and a major contributor to Lakekeeper, an open-source Iceberg REST catalog. His contributions to the Iceberg aren’t limited to pull requests: Viktor is also the organiser of the Apache Iceberg Meetup Europe and hosted some fantastic events in 2025 that brought the Iceberg community together all over Europe from Dublin to Vilnius.