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Get Kafka-Nated Episode 9: Kafka War Stories
Zander Matheson, Staff Product Manager at Confluent, chats with Hugh at Confluent Current about Kafka war stories.
AI + Aiven Databases = Magic
Introducing Aiven’s New PG AI Editor - A simpler, faster, developer-friendly way to work with PostgreSQL.
Beyond Hybrid Search: Traversing Vector Spaces with "Wormhole Vectors"
Traversing the Gap Between Sparse and Dense Vector Spaces.
Elephant in the Room, Episode 2: Working with Feature Flags, Read Replicas, and Postgres Analytics
Welcome to “Elephant in the Room – Presented by Aiven.” In this live series, we dig into the real-world challenges developers face when building modern applications on PostgreSQL, the elephant everyone depends on but few fully leverage. Episode 2: Join Jay Miller, Staff Product Advocate at Aiven, and special guest Alexis Roberson – senior developer educator, and feature flag enthusiast – as they explore how developers can use feature flags to ship faster, reduce risk, and create better user experiences with PostgreSQL-backed applications.
Get Kafka-Nated Episode 10
Kyle McCullough, Co-Founder & CTO at OpsHelm, former Head of Infrastructure Engineering at ProdPerfect and Lead Engineer at Vivid Seats, joins host Hugh Evans to explore what it takes to build real-time, multi-cloud streaming infrastructure at scale. As Co-Founder and CTO of OpsHelm, Kyle shares how his team processes hundreds of terabytes of cloud events daily, maintaining sub-second visibility while reducing streaming costs by 78% after migrating from MSK and NATS to Aiven Diskless Kafka.
Get Kafka-Nated Episode 9
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. Guests include Olena Kutsenko (Confluent), Ben Gamble (Ververica), Alex Merced (Dremio), Sion Smith (OSO), Zander Matheson (ex-ByteWax, Confluent), Hojjat Jafarpour (DeltaStream), and Tom Scott (Streambased).
How I discovered pigeons sabotaging my project with Aiven Free-Tier Kafka
How I used Aiven's free Kafka tier to monitor my smart bird feeder in real-time.
It's Just Free Kafka in the Cloud
Fixing Kafka’s 80% problem with a serious fully managed free Kafka.
Get Kafka-Nated Episode 8
Michael Drogalis, founder of ShadowTraffic and former Confluent stream-processing lead, joins Hugh Evans to tackle one of the hardest problems in Kafka: generating realistic synthetic test data. From his work on Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, and the Onyx platform, Michael shares practical insights for engineering teams struggling with testing and demo data at scale.