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Join us for A Kristmas Kafka, an informal and deeply technical roundtable with Apache Kafka committers, contributors and community leaders. This conversation brings together the people closest to the Kafka codebase to reflect on where the project started, how it has evolved and what lies ahead for streaming systems.

We dive into the game-changing Aiven AI Editor, a powerful tool that lets you interact with your data using natural language. No more syntax headaches. Instantly generate a visual map of your database to understand your tables and their relationships at a glance. Watch how easy it is to ask questions like "How many sales did we have in 2025?" and get perfectly formatted SQL queries in seconds.

Join us for “A Kristmas Kafka,” an informal technical roundtable with Apache Kafka committers, contributors, and community leaders. We’re gathering the people who build and shape Kafka to explore where the project has been, where it is today, and where it’s heading next. No marketing, no product pitches—just a dense, technical conversation about architecture, innovation, and the future of streaming systems.

Zander Matheson, Staff Product Manager at Confluent, chats with Hugh at Confluent Current about Kafka war stories.

Welcome to “Elephant in the Room – Presented by Aiven.” In this live series, we dig into the real-world challenges developers face when building modern applications on PostgreSQL, the elephant everyone depends on but few fully leverage. Episode 2: Join Jay Miller, Staff Product Advocate at Aiven, and special guest Alexis Roberson – senior developer educator, and feature flag enthusiast – as they explore how developers can use feature flags to ship faster, reduce risk, and create better user experiences with PostgreSQL-backed applications.

Kyle McCullough, Co-Founder & CTO at OpsHelm, former Head of Infrastructure Engineering at ProdPerfect and Lead Engineer at Vivid Seats, 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.