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Dec 17, 2025
Free Tier Apache Kafka® Competition
Win $5,000 by building a cool project using Aiven’s new free tier Kafka, and sharing it online with #FreeKafka or #FreeTierKafka.
Dec 10, 2025
How I discovered pigeons sabotaging my project with Aiven Free-Tier Kafka
How I used Aiven's free Kafka tier to monitor my smart bird feeder in real-time
Dec 10, 2025
It’s Just Free Kafka in the Cloud
Fixing Kafka’s 80% problem with a serious fully managed free Kafka.
Dec 10, 2025
Data Infrastructure For All
Introducing Free Tier for Apache Kafka® and $5 Developer Tiers.
Dec 4, 2025
Benchmarking Diskless Topics: Part 1
We built an open-souce benchmark for KIP1150 Diskless Topics so you don't have to.
Oct 26, 2025
Top 8 Free Kafka UI Tools 2025
Discover the Best Free Tools to Monitor, Manage, and Visualize Your Kafka Clusters in 2025
Oct 8, 2025
Kafka's 80% Problem
Why most Kafka deployments pay big-data prices for small-data streams and how to fix it
Oct 2, 2025
OpsHelm goes multi-cloud with Aiven Diskless BYOC, cuts costs by 78% over MSK
OpsHelm cuts streaming costs by 5x migrating from MSK and NATS to Aiven Diskless Kafka in under a month
Oct 1, 2025
The Open-Source BigQuery Sink Connector Saga
The story of how this connector switched hands three times and how Aiven came to maintain it.