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OpenSearch 3.6: Agentic Applications Meet Long-Term Support

Jul 10, 2026 By Andrei Trepet | In Aiven
TL;DR OpenSearch 3.6 makes agentic search production-ready, with the AI-powered Launchpad provisioning full search apps in minutes and faster default vector search, and it's the first LTS release, bringing 18+ months of guaranteed support, SBOMs, and an upstream-first commitment (every fix goes back to the main project) so teams get fast-moving open source and a stable, supported platform at once.
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What I got wrong about ClickHouse as a Kafka Person

Jul 9, 2026 By Stuart Mould | In Aiven
Kafka is brilliant at moving events around, but sooner or later someone wants to actually query those events, perhaps aggregations, dashboards, or ad-hoc analytics over billions of rows. That is where ClickHouse comes in. It's the option for when stream processing is more than you need, but warehouse query latency is more than you'll tolerate.
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The Aiven MCP in Practice: From Dev Environment to App Deploy

Jul 8, 2026 By Tibs (Tony Ibbs) | In Aiven
I spend a good amount of my time deploying Aiven services for demos and examples. Traditionally the tools I reach for are: If I’m writing a program, I may also look to the Aiven API, perhaps using curl at the command line or in a shell script, or perhaps with direct HTTP requests in a Python program. The API is how the console and the CLI tool talk to Aiven, but I generally find that too low level to be comfortable, and I always have to look up how to pass in the Aiven user token.
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If Kafka Is Down, Everything Is Down | Wolt + Aiven

Jul 7, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
Wolt operates in 30+ countries. Every order, every restaurant, every courier runs on the same infrastructure. When it breaks, it doesn't slow things down, it stops everything. Wolt's VP of Engineering shares why Apache Kafka sits at the heart of their platform, what seven years of partnership with Aiven looks like in practice, and how they're building the data foundation needed to get AI working at scale.
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Kafka MCP: Manage Apache Kafka From Your AI Assistant

Jul 6, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
The Aiven MCP connects Claude, Cursor, and VS Code to Apache Kafka. Inspect topics, track consumer lag, stream a database in with CDC, and manage your cluster. 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.
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Kafka MCP: Manage Apache Kafka From Your AI Assistant

Jul 5, 2026 By Roman Pozdnyakov | In Aiven
You're building with Claude or Cursor, and you need to know what's actually happening on your Kafka cluster. Your AI assistant knows Apache Kafka in the abstract, but not your topics, your retention, or that a consumer group has been slipping since this morning. So you leave the editor and go digging through logs, a CLI, and a few dashboards, correlating by hand to answer questions like: The Aiven MCP (EA) turns each of those into a sentence you type where you already work.
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Right Size Your Model Usage with Valkey and Semantic Routing

Jul 2, 2026 By Jay Miller | In Aiven
Benchmarks keep showing that picking the right LLM is hard. The easy answer is "just use the most powerful one." That works, but it is pricey. A small, cheap, or local model can handle many simple requests just as well as a frontier model, for a fraction of the cost. That is what semantic routing is for. Use middleware that looks at an incoming request and decides which model should answer it.
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Apache Kafka Share Groups are NOT true queues. Here's why that's a good thing.

Jul 2, 2026 By Olena Babenko | In Aiven
This Spring, the Apache Kafka community released version 4.2 with a “production-ready” Share Group feature. Also known as a “Kafka queue” people were eager to see this feature because it introduced elastic consumer scaling, individual message acknowledgments, and built-in "poison pill" handling; similar to what you'd find in traditional message brokers like RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ.
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Building an AI Ready Data Backbone: Dima Kan at AICamp 2026

Jun 30, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
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.
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Aiven for Valkey Dev Tier is Live #aiven #valkey #developer

Jun 25, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
You're gonna want a cache. Aiven for Valkey's Dev Tier gets you 2 CPUs and 4 GB RAM on a single node, with automated backups, full monitoring (metrics + logs), and basic support included. JSON, Bloom filters, and Search come pre-enabled. 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.
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