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Get Kafka-Nated Ep 5: Satish Duggana, Uber - Contributing Tiered Storage to Kafka

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!

Energy Monitoring and Targeting: Saving Costs Through Proactive Billing Software

In today's energy-conscious world, businesses and utility providers alike are seeking smarter ways to manage costs, improve efficiency, and promote sustainability. Energy monitoring and targeting (M&T) has emerged as one of the most effective strategies to achieve these goals. By combining accurate monitoring with actionable insights, organizations can identify inefficiencies, reduce waste, and lower utility expenses.

The Real Cost of Choosing the Wrong Database

Data is more than a record of what happened—it shapes what happens next. Across industries, connected devices continuously stream time-stamped data that reflects the current state of machines, environments, and systems. This steady flow gives organizations a live view of operations and the ability to catch issues early, adjust quickly, and operate more efficiently. However, capturing data alone does not create value.

Logs & Search slowing you down? Simplify and accelerate with Aiven for OpenSearch

For many growing businesses, data infrastructure grows and evolves organically. This often results in teams running one technology for log analytics, like a self-managed ELK cluster, and a completely separate technology for application search. While functional, these disparate tech stacks begin to eat into the bottom line. Businesses grapple with fragmented skill sets, inconsistent security models, multiple vendors, and a constant operational tax.

Iceberg Topics for Apache Kafka: Zero ETL, Zero Copy

We’re rolling out table-formatted topics for Apache Kafka, enabling open-source users to ingest, process, and emit data natively as Apache Iceberg tables. We’ve developed a new class of topics in Apache Kafka that stream data into lakehouse formats such as Apache Iceberg. The developer experience, similar to Diskless, is flexible, and the topics are opt-in via cluster configuration.

Real-Time Analytics Made Simple with Kafka and Iceberg

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.

AI Meets Mobile: How Companies Leverage Android and AIOps for Smarter User Experiences

Mobile devices are becoming smarter with every tap. Thanks to AI and AIOps, Android apps can now predict what users need, fix issues before they even notice them, and create seamless, personalized experiences. This isn't a distant tech dream but something that's happening right now, transforming the way companies design and deliver mobile services. From streamlining performance to enhancing customer engagement, AI is quietly rewriting the rules of mobile interaction.

Amazon Kinesis Pricing Explained: A 2025 Guide

Kinesis is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) product that collects, processes, and analyzes streaming data in real-time. It can process streaming video, audio, IoT data, application logs, and other data as it arrives from thousands of unique sources, unlike technologies like Hadoop, which utilize batch processing (waiting for a complete dataset to arrive before processing and analyzing it).