Open Source Happy Hour London

Open Source Happy Hour London Enjoy afterwork drinks and practical discussions on Apache Kafka , ClickHouse , PostgreSQL and much more. Enjoy a session designed for data engineers, architects and technical decisions-makers like you, who want to address the challenges they face in data-infrastructure.

No high-level pitches but straight into practical discussions on how to build scalable, efficient open sourced-powered data platforms. What's on the menu (other than happy hour drinks): Context Is the New Infrastructure (Stan Dmitriev, Product Director of Aiven Context) AI agents are powerful - until they hit your data and have no idea what anything means.

This talk shows why metadata context is becoming as important as uptime, introduces Aiven for DataHub as the managed catalog layer for your data estate, and demonstrates what happens when AI agents can (and can't) reason about your infrastructure. Practical, live, and relevant whether you run PostgreSQL, Kafka, Clickhouse or all of the above.

Intro to Apache Kafka on Aiven: From Managed Simplicity to Inkless Architectures (Hugh Evans, Senior Product Advocate at Aiven) Apache Kafka is the backbone of real-time data pipelines across the industry, but running it well is hard.

This talk starts with a practical look at what Aiven's managed Kafka offering gives you out of the box: high availability, automated ops, and the freedom to focus on building rather than babysitting brokers. From there, Hugh will walk through Inkless Kafka: Aiven's cloud-optimised architecture that decouples compute from storage, moving data to object storage and cutting infrastructure costs by up to 80%.

You'll see how Inkless topics sit alongside classic Kafka topics in the same cluster, what the latency and throughput tradeoffs actually look like in practice, and when it makes sense to reach for each. Secure your spot via the registration form.