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Get Kafka-Nated Episode 9: Live from Current New Orleans
Get Kafka-Nated: Live from Current (New Orleans) Thursday, October 30th, 2025 10:00–11:00 AM CDT Broadcasting Live from the Aiven booth at Current 2025 We’re shaking things up for a special live edition of Get Kafka-Nated! Join host Hugh Evans for a high-energy hour of rapid-fire conversations with experts shaping the future of streaming data. Broadcasting directly from Current 2025 in New Orleans, this episode packs six lightning interviews into one hour, mixing deep technical insights with a few fun surprises along the way.
Get Kafka-Nated Ep 8: Realistic Synthetic Streaming Data w/ Michael Drogalis
Get Kafka-Nated Ep. 8 Wednesday, October 15th 2025 Guest Focus: Founder of ShadowTraffic, former Confluent stream-processing lead (Kafka Streams, ksqlDB), creator of the Onyx Platform Michael Drogalis joins host Hugh Evans to unpack one of the toughest challenges in stream processing: creating realistic synthetic test data for Kafka. Michael founded ShadowTraffic after leading Kafka Streams and ksqlDB at Confluent and building open-source stream systems like Onyx.
Meet the Humans Behind The Service Restoration
Behind every incident is a team working to make things right. Get to know some of the engineers who worked behind the scenes to help resolve the August 28th Kafka service disruption.
Building Real-Time Data Pipelines with Kafka, Telegraf, and InfluxDB 3
When milliseconds matter and data never stops flowing, you need a pipeline that can handle high-velocity streaming data with reliability and scale. The modern streaming stack of Kafka, Telegraf, and InfluxDB 3 Core delivers exactly that. To give you a concrete example, this blog works with a fictitious use case: “Papa Giuseppe’s Pizzeria.” Every oven, prep station, and order in this pizza restaurant generates data. Our workflow looks like this.
Grafana & Friends Stockholm meetup at 0+X
In this talk, we’ll introduce the Kafka Data Source plugin we developed for Grafana, which enables users to query and visualise Kafka topic data directly in their dashboards—without the need for intermediate storage or external services. We'll share how the idea came about, how we collaborated with the Grafana community and developers to bring it to life, and the challenges we faced along the way. We'll also discuss our vision for the plugin’s future and its role in the evolving observability landscape.
Diskless 2.0: Unified, Zero-Copy Apache Kafka
We’ve added Tiered Storage to Diskless Kafka—using plain old KIP-405 as the read-optimizer, Diskless Kafka materializes fast-to-read segments—unifying Tiered and Diskless into a single path. This leverages production-grade Tiered Storage plugin, removes the need for bespoke components, and simplifies the community discussion. We’ve also upgraded KIP-1150 and KIP-1163 to address the community’s most pressing questions such as transactions and queues support.
Getting Started with Iceberg Topics for Apache Kafka: A Beginner's Guide
Understand how Kafka integrates with Apache Iceberg and experiment locally with Docker and Spark The streaming data landscape is evolving rapidly, and one of the most exciting developments is the integration between Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg. While Kafka excels at real-time data streaming, organizations often struggle with the complexity of moving streaming data into analytical systems.
Get Kafka-Nated, Ep 6: Kafka Meets Flink: The Streaming Analytics Revolution
Wednesday July 23 2025 Guest Focus: Streaming analytics expert and Kafka-Flink integration specialist Ben Gamble from Ververica will be joining our host Hugh Evans. Ben has been at the forefront of driving Kafka-Flink integration and the streaming analytics revolution. What we’ll cover: As always we’ll offer a free coffee voucher to all attendees. Get Kafka-Nated!
Simple Kafka for Developers: Kafka UI Directly in Your IDE
Developers love tools that make their lives easier. Whether it’s debugging, visualizing data, or managing clusters, the right tools can transform hours of manual work into just a few clicks. When it comes to Kafka - one of the most powerful but complex streaming platforms - having the right interface is critical. That’s exactly why we built our new Kafka UI Plugin.