This blog examines how smart retailers are blending the latest technology with their traditional brick-and-mortar stores to deliver outstanding customer experiences.

Tiered Storage reduces storage costs, increases operational flexibility, and provides unlimited data retention scalability Aiven announces the general availability of Tiered Storage in Aiven for Apache Kafka. Tiered storage enables Apache Kafka to seamlessly move older, less frequently accessed data to a lower cost storage tier within Kafka. This enables infinite data retention while substantially reducing storage costs and improving performance and operational efficiency.

FSIs face rising compliance demands, squeezing budgets and cybersecurity risks. Open-source tech and careful vendor selection can mitigate these challenges. As explored in our two most recent blogs, changing compliance regulations and policies by specific regions and countries are having a significant impact on financial services institutions (FSIs).

BigQuery continuous queries enable the reverse ETL pattern. You can now stream your enriched data from BigQuery back to the operational data layer using Aiven for Apache Kafka. BigQuery enables customers to quickly generate insights about their data. Its native integration with AI tools allows organizations to transform row assets into valuable information that can be used to generate more accurate decisions, streamlining companies' growth.

Simplify cost management and drive cost reductions across all in-house and managed cloud services.

The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.8.0. As a release manager for this version, I want to personally thank all users and the team of 200+ contributors for the release of Apache Kafka 3.8.0. This was truly a community effort to bring new features and improvements to an open source streaming platform used by thousands of organizations worldwide.