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Your #Current26 Summit London starts tonight. We’re kicking things off early with our gathering at 6pm 🍻 Connect with peers and hear the latest insights from our speakers: Stanislav Kozlovski and Nahidul Kibria Secure your spot at ’The Night Before Current Summit’ https://lnkd.in/e_cJZuW4 #Aiven #Kafka #OpenSource #DataInfrastructure #AI #DataStreaming

In this episode of Get Kafka-Nated, host Hugh Evans is joined by Stanislav Kozlovski, Apache Kafka committer, independent consultant, and author of 2 Minute Streaming — a newsletter with over 7,000 subscribers. After six years at Confluent, including time on the Kafka Serverless team, Stan went independent and has been writing and consulting full-time. He's one of the most recognised voices in the Kafka community, with over 50k followers across social media. In this session we go somewhere the streaming industry rarely goes honestly: Kafka costs. From calculator assumptions to networking blind spots to the structural incentive problems baked into SaaS pricing, we're pulling it all apart. We'll cover: Why Kafka pricing is genuinely hard, not just annoying maths How vendor cost calculators are built — and who they're built for The compression gotcha that quietly inflates your bill Networking as the most consistently unmodelled cost What honest due diligence on a Kafka platform actually looks like Hosted by Hugh as part of the Get Kafka-Nated series. 📅 May 18th 🕓 4pm GMT 🎤 Live

👀 Make sure this must-see session is in your diary for #Current26 London. ’The Guarantee Gap: When ‘Exactly-Once’ Meets Distributed Reality’ takes place at the Sponsor Theatre in the Expo Hall, 2:30pm on day one. https://lnkd.in/eXaCX9ch #Aiven #Kafka #OpenSource #DataInfrastructure #AI #DataStreaming

16,808 Kafka clusters in six months. Here's what they told us: most teams don't need hyperscale infrastructure. They need real Kafka: Schema Registry, REST proxy, observability. At a price that matches the workload. But the industry has been pricing small Kafkas as if every one is about to handle a billion events a day. So we built the one that isn't. The Aiven Developer Tier for Apache Kafka® is now live. $35/month gets you a self-balancing cluster, 1 MB/s throughput, 20 topics, Schema Registry, REST proxy, Prometheus integration, and a 99.9% SLA. Same managed infrastructure we run for enterprise customers, just right-sized for prototyping, microservices, and growing event-driven apps. If you've ever wanted real Kafka without a real Kafka budget, this is for you. The full data story behind why we built this: https://lnkd.in/eFiZ2qET #ApacheKafka #DataStreaming #DeveloperTools #CloudComputing

The night before #Current26, we're hosting a get-together! Join us at Waterfront Street Kitchen & Bar from 6pm for drinks and honest conversation with people who actually build on Kafka. There'll also be three lightning talks from engineers who've been in the trenches: Stanislav Kozlovski known as "the Kafka guy" Nahidul Kibria Engineering Lead at HelloFresh Drinks are on us, and spaces are limited. Secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/e_cJZuW4 #Aiven #Kafka #OpenSource #DataInfrastructure #AI #DataStreaming

Stop by and say hi to the team at Data Innovation Summit at booth D:103 👋 See how we make open source data infrastructure simple. #DataInnovationSummit #OpenSource #DataInfrastructure #AI

The results are in for our latest Aiven Free Tier Competition, this time competitors tested their skills by building a cool project with a variety of Aiven services. We had dozens of submissions from developers around the world, and again it was very hard to pick a winner. After scoring across build quality and storytelling, here are the top 3: 1st place: Venkatesh Gangavarapu, DevStream (taking home our grand prize of $1,000)! 2nd place: Saif Ur Rehman, PulseOps 3rd place: Tegar Imansyah, Exam Engine Congratulations to all three, and thank you to everyone who took the time to build and submit. Links to the projects in the comments.

Streaming meets AI in San Francisco on 12 May. Join builders from Aiven, RisingWave and StreamNative for an evening exploring what streaming infrastructure and AI can do together. Expect a panel on the future of Kafka and AI, live demos and talks from Filip Yonov, Dmitry Kan, Sijie Guo and Yingjun Wu on building real-time systems for the age of autonomous agents. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Grab your spot for Kafka and Friends before it fills up! Register here: https://luma.com/ub9sq0u5 #Kafka #DataStreaming #AI #RealTimeData #OpenSource

Last month, Aiven introduced PG Studio in Early Availability. Work with your PostgreSQL data directly in the Aiven Console using a built-in Query Editor, interactive Schema Map, and AI Chat Assistant. PG Studio simplifies how developers and data teams explore, understand, and build with data while keeping security front and center. More features are on the way as Aiven continues to evolve the experience based on user feedback. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ekasdfNm #Aiven #PostgreSQL #AI #DataEngineering #DeveloperTools

We’re proud to share that Aiven for Apache Kafka has been recognised as a #1 Leader in G2’s Spring 2026 Event Stream Processing Grid. G2 recognition stands out because it’s driven directly by our users. It reflects real feedback from the engineers and data teams building the systems we power, and it’s feedback we take seriously. Explore the full report: https://lnkd.in/eZC2bbHp #ApacheKafka #EventStreaming #DataEngineering #G2 #OpenSource