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What does the IBM acquisition of Confluent mean for the future of streaming and Kafka?

Mar 18, 2026 By Jeff Mery In Aiven
On December 8th, 2025, IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Confluent in a deal valued at $11 billion. It is a massive moment for our industry. The acquisition was finalized on March 17th, 2026. For some, this looks like a safe bet; a way for enterprise giants to finally "get" real-time data. But for those of us who have spent our careers in open source software and data infrastructure, it feels different. There’s a sense of wondering “when is the other shoe going to drop?”.
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A New Scale Tier for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB

Mar 17, 2026 By InfluxData In InfluxData
InfluxDB 3 on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now scales to 15-node clusters, unlocking higher ingestion, greater query concurrency, and real-time performance at scale. In this video, PM Pete Barnett breaks down what this means for high-resolution, high-velocity workloads, and how you can scale from Core to Enterprise with zero downtime or data migration.
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Aiven

Announcing Aiven for Valkey 9 and Multi-Version Support

Mar 17, 2026 By Alexander Fridriksson In Aiven
Experience major throughput gains, granular data control and more control over when you upgrade. We are excited to announce two major updates to Aiven for Valkey: support for the highly anticipated Valkey 9 and the introduction of multi-version support. Whether you are running large-scale clusters or managing complex data structures, these updates provide the throughput, granular data control and deployment flexibility you need.
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influxdata

A New Scale Tier for Time Series on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB

Mar 16, 2026 By Pat Walsh In InfluxData
When we first announced the availability of InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB last year, we set a new standard for managed time series on AWS. We gave developers a simple way to harness high performance at scale while removing the burden of infrastructure management. But as our customers have taught us, “at scale” is a moving target. Across Industrial IoT, physical AI, and real-time observability, data is growing in both volume and resolution.
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Aiven

MySQL, from "Hello World" to High Availability

Mar 16, 2026 By Tibs (Tony Ibbs) In Aiven
Whether you’re spinning up your first relational database or running a global e-commerce platform, Aiven for MySQL provides the performance and reliability you need. In the world of open-source databases, MySQL is the engine behind millions of applications, and at Aiven, we believe managing it shouldn't keep you up at night. Our platform is built to grow with you, from when you're just getting started all the way through to enterprise scale.
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Pepperdata

Install Kubernetes Cost Optimization: How to Get Started with Pepperdata

Mar 14, 2026 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
To watch the full walkthrough video on the Pepperdata self-service install, click the link here. Many organizations struggle to efficiently manage their cloud costs, and that arises from difficulties in managing Kubernetes resources. Of the $419 billion spent on cloud infrastructure in 2025 (Synergy Research Group), Flexera estimates that 27% of all of cloud spend is wasted due to overprovisioned resources.
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influxdata

What is Industry 4.0? Everything You Need to Know in 2026

Mar 13, 2026 By Company In InfluxData
Industry 4.0 is the term used to describe the fourth industrial revolution, a name given to the integration of physical and digital systems, which includes the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence that are transforming a huge number of industries. At a high level, its goal is to create an efficient, automated process for creating products or services that can be adapted quickly and efficiently to changing customer needs.
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Get Kafka-Nated S2E3: Yingjun Wu on Streaming Databases, SQL-First Processing, and Real-Time Data

Mar 12, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
March 11th, 4PM GMT Yingjun Wu is the founder and CEO of RisingWave Labs, a company building a distributed SQL database for stream processing, with over a decade of experience spanning academic research and large-scale production systems. In this episode we'll be sitting down for a coffee and a conversation with Yingjun's about what a streaming database actually is, how message brokers and streaming databases fit together in real-world architectures, and what his journey from database researcher to founder has taught him.
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Aiven

Introducing Aiven's PG Studio

Mar 12, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
Aiven's PG Studio is now in Early Availability, allowing you to work with your Aiven for PostgreSQL instances, directly in the Aiven Console. Over the last several decades, PostgreSQL has been steadily climbing its way to the top of popularity amongst DBAs and app developers. With the rise of AI development, PG has become the tool that you can build with at many different development stages. This starts at the home of your data, which is the Aiven for PostgreSQL service page in the Aiven Console.
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influxdata

When Your Plant Talks Back: Conversational AI with InfluxDB 3

Mar 10, 2026 By Suyash Joshi In InfluxData
No one wants to stare at a plant and guess if it needs water. It’s much easier if the plant can say, “I’m thirsty.” A few years ago, we built Plant Buddy using InfluxDB Cloud 2.0. The linked article is still a great guide for cloud-first IoT prototyping as it shows how quickly you can connect devices, store time series data, and build dashboards in the cloud with the previous version of InfluxDB. But this time, the goal was different.
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