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Get Kafka-Nated: Live from Current (New Orleans) Thursday, October 30th, 2025 10:00–11:00 AM CDT Broadcasting Live from the Aiven booth at Current 2025 We’re shaking things up for a special live edition of Get Kafka-Nated! Join host Hugh Evans for a high-energy hour of rapid-fire conversations with experts shaping the future of streaming data. Broadcasting directly from Current 2025 in New Orleans, this episode packs six lightning interviews into one hour, mixing deep technical insights with a few fun surprises along the way.

Get Kafka-Nated Ep. 8 Wednesday, October 15th 2025 Guest Focus: Founder of ShadowTraffic, former Confluent stream-processing lead (Kafka Streams, ksqlDB), creator of the Onyx Platform Michael Drogalis joins host Hugh Evans to unpack one of the toughest challenges in stream processing: creating realistic synthetic test data for Kafka. Michael founded ShadowTraffic after leading Kafka Streams and ksqlDB at Confluent and building open-source stream systems like Onyx.

AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

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.

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.

In this workshop recording, we’ll show you how to build a streaming lakehouse architecture—powered by Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg.