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Get Kafka-Nated Ep. 7 Thursday, September 25th 2025 Guest Focus: VP Global Customer Success at Redpanda Data, former Cloudera streaming expert Tristan Stevens from Redpanda Data will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Tristan brings a unique perspective, having led customer success for Hadoop ecosystems at Cloudera and now shaping next-generation streaming platforms at Redpanda.

In this workshop recording, we’ll show you how to build a streaming lakehouse architecture—powered by Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg.

As part of our mission to help developers "Start with Aiven", we built a new plugin to make working with Apache Kafka easier. The Kafka UI Connect plugin allows you to interact with your Kafka clusters directly from any JetBrains IDE (e.g., IntelliJ, PyCharm). No more juggling multiple applications!

Wednesday July 23 2025 Guest Focus: Streaming analytics expert and Kafka-Flink integration specialist Ben Gamble from Ververica will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Ben has been at the forefront of driving Kafka-Flink integration and the streaming analytics revolution. What we’ll cover: As always we’ll offer a free coffee voucher to all attendees. Get Kafka-Nated!

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!

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.

Iceberg and the future of Streaming Data Architectures Alex from Dremio, will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Alex is making data lakes more accessible in his role as a developer advocate at Dremio. What we’ll cover.

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.

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.

Great news from Aiven! We are thrilled to announce that we have officially surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Our journey started with a simple goal: to give developers access to the best open-source data technologies like PostgreSQL, Kafka, and OpenSearch, without the usual complexity. This incredible milestone proves the strength of our mission and the amazing open-source community we've built together.