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If Kafka Is Down, Everything Is Down | Wolt + Aiven

Jul 7, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
Wolt operates in 30+ countries. Every order, every restaurant, every courier runs on the same infrastructure. When it breaks, it doesn't slow things down, it stops everything. Wolt's VP of Engineering shares why Apache Kafka sits at the heart of their platform, what seven years of partnership with Aiven looks like in practice, and how they're building the data foundation needed to get AI working at scale.
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Kafka MCP: Manage Apache Kafka From Your AI Assistant

Jul 6, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
The Aiven MCP connects Claude, Cursor, and VS Code to Apache Kafka. Inspect topics, track consumer lag, stream a database in with CDC, and manage your cluster. 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.
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Why Strategic IT Planning Is Essential for Business Success

Why Strategic IT Planning Is Essential for Business Success

Jul 6, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Technology now plays a central role in nearly every aspect of business operations. From communication and customer service to data management and workflow automation, organizations rely on digital systems to maintain efficiency and support growth. However, simply adopting new technologies is not enough. Businesses need a clear strategy that aligns technology investments with their long-term objectives.
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Aiven

Kafka MCP: Manage Apache Kafka From Your AI Assistant

Jul 5, 2026 By Roman Pozdnyakov | In Aiven
You're building with Claude or Cursor, and you need to know what's actually happening on your Kafka cluster. Your AI assistant knows Apache Kafka in the abstract, but not your topics, your retention, or that a consumer group has been slipping since this morning. So you leave the editor and go digging through logs, a CLI, and a few dashboards, correlating by hand to answer questions like: The Aiven MCP (EA) turns each of those into a sentence you type where you already work.
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InvGate

Introducing AI Analytics Reports in InvGate Service Management

Jul 3, 2026 By Natalí Valle In InvGate
Most teams can confirm their AI features are turned on. Measuring how often employees use them, which requests get resolved without agent intervention, and where AI is helping support teams work more efficiently is a different question. In InvGate Service Management, those capabilities live in AI Hub, a set of built-in AI features that includes the Virtual Service Agent, AI-assisted ticket resolution for agents, automated knowledge generation, and more.
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Aiven

Right Size Your Model Usage with Valkey and Semantic Routing

Jul 2, 2026 By Jay Miller | In Aiven
Benchmarks keep showing that picking the right LLM is hard. The easy answer is "just use the most powerful one." That works, but it is pricey. A small, cheap, or local model can handle many simple requests just as well as a frontier model, for a fraction of the cost. That is what semantic routing is for. Use middleware that looks at an incoming request and decides which model should answer it.
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Apache Kafka Share Groups are NOT true queues. Here's why that's a good thing.

Jul 2, 2026 By Olena Babenko | In Aiven
This Spring, the Apache Kafka community released version 4.2 with a “production-ready” Share Group feature. Also known as a “Kafka queue” people were eager to see this feature because it introduced elastic consumer scaling, individual message acknowledgments, and built-in "poison pill" handling; similar to what you'd find in traditional message brokers like RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ.
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influxdata

What's New in InfluxDB and Telegraf: Q2 2026 Product Updates

Jul 1, 2026 By Ryan Nelson In InfluxData
Summary: Q2 was about giving teams more leverage with less overhead. Between April and June 2026, releases across Telegraf, InfluxDB 3, and InfluxDB 3 Explorer focused on reducing manual work and putting more control directly in their hands as they scale. Telegraf Enterprise reached general availability, giving teams a centralized way to manage, monitor, and support tens of thousands of Telegraf agents.
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Building an AI Ready Data Backbone: Dima Kan at AICamp 2026

Jun 30, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
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.
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