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DevRel often means juggling goals that feel completely opposite: building trust while driving adoption, serving developers while supporting business growth. In this short, we explore why these “contradictions” are actually the secret to great Developer Relations.

Join Jeff Mery and Josep Prat as they discuss the future of Kafka and Streaming. In this deep dive, we break down the architectural shifts and hidden "taxes" currently hitting the data streaming ecosystem—and how to engineer your way out of them. In this video, you’ll see: The "Streaming Tax" Breakdown: A transparent look at how 3x replication, inter-AZ egress, and eCKU markups are inflating your TCO by up to 500%.

In this DevEx Talks episode, Adriana Villela and Cortney Nickerson explore what truly matters in open source through the lens of women in Developer Relations and Community roles. From diverse career paths to navigating DevRel as women in tech, they share honest reflections on impact, feedback, and long-term motivation in cloud native ecosystems.

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.

In Episode 3 of Elephant in the Room, we move from discussion to delivery with a hands-on, live build of a real, community-focused application. Join Jay Miller, Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe and Andres Pineda as they collaboratively design and build a CFP (Call for Proposals) review platform using PostgreSQL and Django. The aim: create a practical tool that helps speakers receive better feedback and helps organisers discover new and diverse voices.