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Join Hugh Evans and Alex Merced from Dremio as they explore the future of streaming data with Apache Iceberg. In this episode, we dive into how Iceberg is transforming the way data lakes work, making it easier for engineers to manage, query, and stream data efficiently.

Welcome to “Elephant in the Room – Presented by Aiven. In this new live series, we dig into the real-world challenges developers face when building modern applications on PostgreSQL, the elephant everyone depends on but few truly understand. Episode 1: Join Jay Miller, Staff Product Advocate at Aiven, and special guest Jeff Triplett, Partner & Engineer at REVSYS and long-time Django community leader, as they explore how developers can harness PostgreSQL’s native text-search capabilities to build faster, smarter, and more efficient applications.

Join us for Episode 3 of Get Kafka-Nated, where host Hugh Evans sits down with Greg Harris, Staff Software Engineer and the driving force behind KIP-1150, to explore the future of cloud-native Apache Kafka. In this episode, we dive into diskless Kafka — a bold reimagining of Kafka’s architecture that moves data from broker disks to object storage. Greg explains the technical challenges, the operational benefits, and the broader implications for Kafka users.

There’s a foundational shift underway in the data infrastructure behind AI-native applications. In this fireside chat, we break down the technical requirements that make today’s data infrastructure dramatically different from what it used to be and what builders need to understand to keep up. In this talk, top founders defining the industry, Rebecka Storm, Co-Founder and CPO of Twirl (Acquired by Modal) and Heikki Linnakangas, Co-Founder of Neon (Acquired by Databricks) will dive deep into theme of AI data infrastructure and open source, moderated by Oded Valin (Aiven).

Grab your cup and prepare to Get Kafka-Nated! In this series, we’ll be digging into everything Apache Kafka, from the pre-history of Kafka to the latest Kafka Improvement Proposal (KIP). We’ll be joined by a range of guests who have been at the forefront of Kafka for many years.

Learn how to stream data from Kafka into ClickHouse using Aiven’s integration wizard. In this demo, we show you how to generate sample logistics data in Kafka, configure the integration to map Avro-formatted fields, and connect to ClickHouse to view and query the ingested data. We also demonstrate how to create a materialised view in ClickHouse to store and query streamed data efficiently, making real-time analytics fast and easy.

Learn how to quickly create a fork of your Aiven for PostgreSQL instance to set up a safe staging or testing environment. In this demo, we walk you through selecting your project and service, navigating to the backups & forking section, naming your new instance, choosing the cloud provider and plan, and finalising the fork to replicate your original database. This approach allows you to test changes safely without affecting your production database, making development and QA workflows much more reliable.

Learn how to create a read replica for your Aiven for PostgreSQL instance using the Aiven Console. In this demo, we’ll show you step by step how to: 1) Ensure you’re on a Startup plan or higher 2) Select your service and name your replica 3) Choose the cloud provider, region, and plan 4) Create the read replica Once built, your replica can even be promoted to a primary instance, making it perfect for disaster recovery or scaling your workload.

In this video, we show you how to quickly connect to your Aiven for PostgreSQL instance by locating your service URL in the Aiven Console. Your login credentials remain secure but can be copied easily, and we demonstrate how to connect using a variety of tools, including the Aiven CLI, PostgreSQL clients, and popular programming language modules. Get up and running in minutes and start interacting with your database effortlessly, whether for development, testing, or analytics.

Learn how to create an Aiven for ClickHouse cluster using the Aiven Console in just 90 seconds. This step-by-step demo shows you how to select a project and name your service, choose your cloud provider, region, and plan, optionally add extra storage, and launch your cluster. Watch as your ClickHouse cluster appears in the service overview, ready to handle your analytics workloads with ease.

Get Kafka-Nated Ep. 10 Wednesday, November 5th 2025 Guest Focus: Co-Founder & CTO at OpsHelm, former Head of Infrastructure Engineering at ProdPerfect and Lead Engineer at Vivid Seats Kyle McCullough 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.

Learn how to automatically close inactive connections in your Aiven for PostgreSQL service using pgBouncer’s idle timeout setting. In this demo, we’ll walk through the Aiven Console to adjust the server_idle_timeout value in pgBouncer’s advanced configuration, helping you optimise performance and free up resources by terminating idle connections faster.

Virtual Generated Columns are another new feature that we're exploring in PG18.