Is Paimon just Iceberg on steroids?
Giannis Polyzos sits down with Hugh Evans to discuss whether Paimon is really just Iceberg, only better.
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6 Insights About Marketing Software That Improve Campaign Effectiveness
Modern marketing relies on a complex stack of tools to reach the right people at the right time. Finding the perfect balance between automation and human creativity remains a primary challenge for growth-minded brands. Effective campaigns require more than just flashy graphics or catchy slogans. Data-driven decisions powered by reliable software ensure every dollar spent contributes to the bottom line of the business.
Elephant in the Room, Episode 2: Working with Feature Flags, Read Replicas, and Postgres Analytics
Welcome to Elephant in the Room – presented by Aiven, the live series where we explore the real-world challenges developers face when working with PostgreSQL, the database that everyone depends on but few fully leverage. In Episode 2, Jay Miller, Staff Product Advocate at Aiven, is joined by Alexis Roberson, Senior Developer Educator and feature flag enthusiast, to break down how feature flags help teams ship faster, reduce risk and improve user experiences in PostgreSQL-backed applications.
Is 'Batch Good Enough'? Check Your User Experience
Giannis Polyzos chats with Hugh Evans about whether batch data processing is truly “good enough".
Strategic Portfolio Management Tops Enterprise Priorities, But Execution Lags
Disconnected Data and Poor Forecasting are Undermining Strategy with AI Projects Highlighting the Risk.
Get Kafka-Nated S2E1: Giannis Polyzos on Fluss, Lakehouse, and the Future of Streaming
Season 2 of Get Kafka-Nated kicks off with Giannis Polyzos, member of the Fluss PMC, for a deep dive into one of data infrastructure’s longest-running debates: streaming vs. batch, or both? What we’ll cover: Timestamps: Useful links.
Free Tier Kafka Competition: The Winners
After reviewing all the submissions, we realised we could not have chosen just one winner. When we launched Aiven's Free Tier Kafka competition with a $5,000 prize pool, we wanted to see what the community could build. What we got back was incredible: genuine creativity, technical depth, and projects that are truly inspiring to the Apache Kafka community. After reviewing all the submissions, we realized we could not have chosen just one winner.
Why Your Data Catalog is Your AI's Brain | Stan Dmitriev, AI Product Director at Aiven
Data catalogs are no longer just for compliance - they are the essential context layer for AI. While LLMs are powerful, they fail without the "tribal knowledge" found in metadata. This session explores how to transform your catalog from a static repository into an active nervous system for AI agents.
Context Management for Agentic RAG | Johan Jern, Co-founder & CTO at Realm
Some queries are hard to solve with "basic" RAG. When questions require multi-step reasoning, full-document understanding (not just chunks), or aggregating many results that match specific criteria, simple retrieve-and-generate pipelines break down, we need agentic RAG. But this added capability comes at a cost: as agents plan, search, read, and iterate, they quickly use up a lot of context, which both degrades answer quality and increases costs and latency.
InfluxDB 3 Core vs. Enterprise
In this video, Senior Developer Advocate Cole Bowden walks you through the key similarities and differences that exist in InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. As an open source offering, Core thrives at data collection on the edge and providing real-time insights into fresh data, while Enterprise includes support, compaction for performant historical analysis over wide windows, better scaling and security for enterprise-scale operations.