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As part of our mission to help developers "Start with Aiven", we built a new plugin to make working with Apache Kafka easier. The Kafka UI Connect plugin allows you to interact with your Kafka clusters directly from any JetBrains IDE (e.g., IntelliJ, PyCharm). No more juggling multiple applications!

Valkey OSS Developer Advocate Roberto Luna Rojas shares why open source matters to him - and the world.

In this episode we learn how Valkey, the lightning-speed open source key-value datastore, can help improve your observability toolstack. Dive in to learn what differentiates a NoSQL data store from a relational database, more about data structures such as HyperLogLog and Bloom Filter, and all about the history of how data is stored.

Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity. This webinar gives a detailed exploration of an open source data lakehouse architecture and how we implement it at Canonical. Watch to discover how Spark’s scalable processing engine and Kyuubi’s user-friendly SQL gateway enable efficient, secure, and high-performance analytics on unified data sets. Let’s dig deeper into how this combination simplifies big data storage, interactive analytics, and ETL – all through a single, streamlined open source lakehouse architecture.

Wednesday July 23 2025 Guest Focus: Streaming analytics expert and Kafka-Flink integration specialist Ben Gamble from Ververica will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Ben has been at the forefront of driving Kafka-Flink integration and the streaming analytics revolution. What we’ll cover: As always we’ll offer a free coffee voucher to all attendees. Get Kafka-Nated!

Wednesday August 20 2025 Guest Focus: Senior engineer and KIP-405 Tiered Storage architect Satish from Uber, will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Satish was a contributor to KIP 405 which brought tiered storage to Kafka. What we’ll cover: As always we’ll offer a free coffee voucher to all attendees. Get Kafka-Nated!