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Building Agents that Remember: The OpenSearch Developer Tier

May 27, 2026 By Andrei Trepet | In Aiven
OpenSearch isn't just a search engine anymore. Recent releases moved it into AI infrastructure: agentic memory built in, Better Binary Quantization (BBQ) compressing vectors 32x, token-usage tracking, and a one-command Observability Stack. A stack for building practical AI applications, not just indexing. The catch is that production-sized OpenSearch clusters aren't where you want to prototype.
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Get Kafka-Nated S2E5: Nobody Understands Kafka Costs

May 19, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
In this episode of Get Kafka-Nated, host Hugh Evans is joined by Stanislav Kozlovski, Apache Kafka committer, independent consultant, and author of 2 Minute Streaming — a newsletter with over 7,000 subscribers. After six years at Confluent, including time on the Kafka Serverless team, Stan went independent and has been writing and consulting full-time. He's one of the most recognised voices in the Kafka community, with over 50k followers across social media. In this session we go somewhere the streaming industry rarely goes honestly: Kafka costs.
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A Developer's Guide to Aiven Apps

May 19, 2026 By Tibs (Tony Ibbs) | In Aiven
We recently announced the Limited Availability (LA) launch of Aiven Apps, which lets teams define, run, and scale production-ready, real-time applications using container and Compose-based workflows they already know. It provides a managed, stateless runtime that runs directly inside your data perimeter, letting you deploy applications alongside open-source data services like PostgreSQL and Apache Kafka.
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Sustainability as opportunity: a new collaboration between Aiven and OxygenIT

May 17, 2026 By Julie Bastien | In Aiven
Many businesses see emissions reduction as a cost sink: assigning people, maintaining compliance, the hard labor of calculating carbon signatures. That view is out of date – and a new partnership between Aiven and data provider OxygenIT demonstrates why. Our premise: your carbon footprint isn't just about understanding emissions; it's about understanding your business. Today, we're announcing a new service that helps with both.
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Addressing Cold Start problem in Travel Personalization for OTAs

May 13, 2026 By Maulik Parikh | In Aiven
In the high-stakes world of Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) like Expedia, Hopper, Priceline, and Airbnb, seconds matter. A traveler searching for a "beachfront stay in Hawaii" isn't just looking for a room — they are reacting to weather changes, fluctuating flight prices, and social media trends. Traditional travel platforms often rely on stale data: yesterday's search history or last week's preferences. To truly compete, travel platforms must pivot to Real-Time Context Engineering.
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What 16,808 Kafka Clusters Tell Us About Data Streaming

May 7, 2026 By Filip Yonov | In Aiven
Half a year ago, we launched a free tier cloud Kafka. We have 16,808 clusters so we got curious: what are these builders telling us about the state of Apache Kafka? The headlines this quarter suggest Kafka is dying because the streaming market is consolidating. At Aiven we see the opposite. Kafka is not shrinking. It is spreading outward from enterprise platform teams into the hands of individual builders. We are now seeing >200 new Kafka clusters created per day on the free tier.
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Building for the 80%: The New Developer Tier for Apache Kafka

Apr 28, 2026 By Gemma Minihan | In Aiven
When we launched the Free Tier, we made a promise: graduating to a paid tier shouldn’t feel like switching platforms. It should simply feel like tapping “Continue watching in HD”. The Developer Tier for Aiven for Apache Kafka is that upgrade. $35 a month for the serious, ongoing workloads that haven’t yet reached enterprise scale. Everything we said was coming is now live.
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Introducing Aiven for DataHub: Managed context for humans and AI

Apr 13, 2026 By Stan Dmitriev In Aiven
Discover Aiven for DataHub: a fully managed, open-source data catalog that gives your teams and AI agents the context they need to find and understand data. According to an MIT study, 95% of AI projects fail to deliver value. I've been thinking about why that number is so stubbornly high, and I've come to believe the answer isn't about models,compute or even data quality in the traditional sense -It's about context.
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Get Kafka-Nated S2E4: Debugging the Kafka-Iceberg Connector

Apr 10, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
In this episode of Get Kafka-Nated, host Hugh is joined by Anatolii Popov, Senior Software Engineer at Aiven, to dive into one of the most talked-about integrations in the modern data stack: Kafka to Apache Iceberg. Anatolii was accepted to speak at Iceberg Summit 2026 on debugging the Kafka Connect Iceberg Connector, and in this session we’ll cover the talk he would have given, including common failure modes, debugging locally, catalog complexities, and where the integration is heading next.
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