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Join Hugh Evans as he chats with Ben Gamble, Field CTO at Ververica and one of the original creators of Apache Flink, about the magic of combining Kafka and Flink for modern streaming analytics.

In this episode, Hugh Evans sits down with Satish D, senior engineer at Uber and a driving force behind KIP-405, to unpack tiered storage in Apache Kafka. We go beyond the basics to explore the real challenges, design decisions, and community collaboration that made this architectural change possible.

Welcome to “Elephant in the Room – Presented by Aiven. In this new live series, we dig into the real-world challenges developers face when building modern applications on PostgreSQL, the elephant everyone depends on but few truly understand. Episode 1: Join Jay Miller, Staff Product Advocate at Aiven, and special guest Jeff Triplett, Partner & Engineer at REVSYS and long-time Django community leader, as they explore how developers can harness PostgreSQL’s native text-search capabilities to build faster, smarter, and more efficient applications.

Join Hugh Evans and Alex Merced from Dremio as they explore the future of streaming data with Apache Iceberg. In this episode, we dive into how Iceberg is transforming the way data lakes work, making it easier for engineers to manage, query, and stream data efficiently.

Join us for Episode 3 of Get Kafka-Nated, where host Hugh Evans sits down with Greg Harris, Staff Software Engineer and the driving force behind KIP-1150, to explore the future of cloud-native Apache Kafka. In this episode, we dive into diskless Kafka — a bold reimagining of Kafka’s architecture that moves data from broker disks to object storage. Greg explains the technical challenges, the operational benefits, and the broader implications for Kafka users.

There’s a foundational shift underway in the data infrastructure behind AI-native applications. In this fireside chat, we break down the technical requirements that make today’s data infrastructure dramatically different from what it used to be and what builders need to understand to keep up. In this talk, top founders defining the industry, Rebecka Storm, Co-Founder and CPO of Twirl (Acquired by Modal) and Heikki Linnakangas, Co-Founder of Neon (Acquired by Databricks) will dive deep into theme of AI data infrastructure and open source, moderated by Oded Valin (Aiven).

Grab your cup and prepare to Get Kafka-Nated! In this series, we’ll be digging into everything Apache Kafka, from the pre-history of Kafka to the latest Kafka Improvement Proposal (KIP). We’ll be joined by a range of guests who have been at the forefront of Kafka for many years.

Learn how to stream data from Kafka into ClickHouse using Aiven’s integration wizard. In this demo, we show you how to generate sample logistics data in Kafka, configure the integration to map Avro-formatted fields, and connect to ClickHouse to view and query the ingested data. We also demonstrate how to create a materialised view in ClickHouse to store and query streamed data efficiently, making real-time analytics fast and easy.

Learn how to quickly create a fork of your Aiven for PostgreSQL instance to set up a safe staging or testing environment. In this demo, we walk you through selecting your project and service, navigating to the backups & forking section, naming your new instance, choosing the cloud provider and plan, and finalising the fork to replicate your original database. This approach allows you to test changes safely without affecting your production database, making development and QA workflows much more reliable.