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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.

Leading Firms Specializing in ETL Migration and Data Pipeline Modernization

A lot of companies are running into the same problem: their data setups simply haven't kept up with how the business works today. Reports take too long, new data sources are hard to plug in, and old systems start breaking the moment you ask more from them than they were built for.

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).

Configuring the Alerting Plugin in InfluxDB 3

Monitoring starts with data, but action depends on timely alerts. When an alerting workflow relies on scheduled queries or external checks, engineers miss short windows where values shift and conditions form. The alerting plugin closes that gap by evaluating alert rules inside InfluxDB 3 as new values arrive, enabling faster detection and more responsive monitoring.

Get Kafka-Nated Episode 7

Join Hugh Evans on Get KafkaNated as he sits down with Tristan Stevens, VP of Global Customer Success at Redpanda Data and former Cloudera streaming expert. Tristan shares his unique perspective on the evolution of streaming infrastructure, drawing from years of experience leading customer success in both Hadoop ecosystems and next-generation streaming platforms.

Data Visualization Trends 2025: Why AI-Generated Charts Are Gaining Traction in DevOps

Data visualization in DevOps has undergone a dramatic shift over the past few years, evolving from static dashboards into dynamic, context-aware systems that update as quickly as pipelines themselves. As teams manage more logs, metrics, dependencies, and distributed environments than ever before, the demand for faster insight continues to grow. That's one reason many engineering groups have started turning to tools like an AI graph generator to automate routine visualizations and surface patterns that humans often miss when juggling multiple services.

Aiven for PostgreSQL

Hounded with operational overhead and slow queries? Learn how to fetch data faster and simplify database management with Aiven for PostgreSQL. Aiven’s fully managed PostgreSQL service delivers high performance, automated scaling, and built-in resilience - without the headaches of manual setup and maintenance. Discover how to optimise queries, reduce latency, and stay focused on building your applications instead of managing infrastructure.