Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Learn how to securely download and manage Kafka certificates using Aiven for Apache Kafka. In this demo, we’ll walk you through locating your service certificates in the Aiven Console, downloading them safely, as well as using them to authenticate Kafka clients and ensure encrypted communication. We also cover best practices for certificate management to keep your data streaming infrastructure secure and compliant.

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.

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.

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.

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.