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        <title>Aiven Blog | Filip Yonov</title>
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        <description>Head of Streaming Services</description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What 16,808 Kafka Clusters Tell Us About Data Streaming]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Within six months of launching our free tier Kafka service Aiven users have created more than Kafka 16,808 services on Aiven. Here's what that taught us.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[It’s Just Free Kafka in the Cloud ]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/just-free-kafka-in-the-cloud</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:14:20 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ Fixing Kafka’s 80% problem with a serious fully managed free Kafka.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
            <dc:creator>Gemma Minihan</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Benchmarking Diskless Topics: Part 1]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/benchmarking-diskless-inkless-topics-part-1</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We built an open-souce benchmark for KIP1150 Diskless Topics so you don't have to.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
            <dc:creator>Jorge Quilcate</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kafka's 80% Problem]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/apache-kafkas-80-percent-problem</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Why most Kafka deployments pay big-data prices for small-data streams and how to fix it]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[OpsHelm goes multi-cloud with Aiven Diskless BYOC, cuts costs by 78% over MSK]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/opshelm-multicloud-changelog-with-diskless-apache-kafka</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[OpsHelm cuts streaming costs by 5x migrating from MSK and NATS to Aiven Diskless Kafka in under a month]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Diskless 2.0: Unified, Zero-Copy Apache Kafka]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/diskless-unified-zero-copy-apache-kafka</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We’ve unified Apache Kafka Tiered Storage (KIP-405) and Diskless Topics (KIP-1150) into a single path with zero-copy migration.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
            <dc:creator>Greg Harris</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iceberg Topics for Apache Kafka®:  Zero ETL, Zero Copy ]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/iceberg-topics-for-apache-kafka-zero-etl-zero-copy</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:15:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Open Source Kafka users get native Apache Iceberg™ topics that collapse ETL and reduce costs  - one write to the data lake, many reads - zero copies.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why don't Kafka and Iceberg get along?]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/why-dont-apache-kafka-and-iceberg-get-along</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Native, zero‑copy Iceberg tables will end the data lake connector tax and unify streaming in the lake for open source Apache Kafka users. ]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 3 Es of Diskless Kafka BYOC]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/diskless-apache-kafka-guide-byoc</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There are at least 3 ways you can buy Data Streaming in the cloud, one of them is Diskless BYOC. What are they? Where do they fail? Does BYOC fit for you?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Diskless Kafka is the Tide, and it’s Rising ]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/diskless-kafka-is-the-tide-and-its-rising</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 12:27:51 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Announcing KIP-1150 Diskless Topics in Aiven BYOC— KIP-1150 now allows Apache Kafka on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure write straight to object storage, cut cross-AZ traffic, disks and TCO by up to 80%.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Hitchhiker’s guide to Diskless Kafka]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/guide-diskless-apache-kafka-kip-1150</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:18:24 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[KIP-1150 adds Diskless Topics to Apache Kafka®, redirecting replication from broker disks to cloud object storage and slicing TCO by up to 80 percent. This deep-dive lifts the hood on the leaderless, zone-aligned internals—strict ordering preservation, instant elasticity and zero client changes.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
            <dc:creator>Josep Prat</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Diskless Kafka: 80% Leaner, 100% Open]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/diskless-apache-kafka-kip-1150</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:01:10 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Apache Kafka® KIP-1150 introduces opt‑in Diskless Topics that replicate directly in object storage. Diskless slashes TCO and unlocks instant autoscaling, efficient geo‑replication, and per‑topic latency targets.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing Tiered Storage for Aiven for Apache Kafka®: Unlocking Improved Cost-Efficiency and Scalability]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/introducing-tiered-storage-for-aiven-for-apache-kafka</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Tiered Storage for Apache Kafka® delivers an improved cost-to-performance ratio, increased operational flexibility, and greater scalability for customers]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
            <dc:creator>Markos Sfikas</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aiven is connecting streaming data with the Google BigQuery ecosystem]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/aiven-connecting-streaming-data-with-the-bigquery-ecosystem</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aiven enters Google Cloud Ready - BigQuery designation and launches new Apache Flink® to BigQuery sink connector to tightly connect streaming data with BigQuery’s ecosystem]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing Kafka Quotas in Aiven for Apache Kafka®]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/introducing-kafka-quotas-in-aiven-for-apache-kafka</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aiven for Apache Kafka® brings Kafka quotas to help organizations control the resources client applications can use in a Kafka cluster.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
            <dc:creator>Markos Sfikas</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[What’s new with Aiven for Apache Flink® - Q2 2023]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/whats-new-with-aiven-for-apache-flink-q2-2023</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The latest Aiven for Apache Flink service comes with integration for multiple versions of Apache Kafka® and a CDC connector for PostgreSQL®.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
            <dc:creator>Markos Sfikas</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aiven's journey to enable a better Apache Flink® experience]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/aiven-flink-journey</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:18:41 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[SQL, integrations, autocompletion, data preview and more - Aiven’s bringing good things to your Apache Flink® workflow]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Francesco Tisiot</dc:creator>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aiven for Apache Flink® is now generally available]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/aiven-for-apache-flink-generally-available</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With Aiven’s fully managed Apache Flink® service, you can leverage the power and flexibility of real time data processing. ]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beyond event streaming: a complete open source ecosystem for Apache Kafka®]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/beyond-event-streaming-with-apache-kafka</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When making Apache Kafka the backbone of your data infra, get an end-to-end solution. Find out more about Aiven’s open source ecosystem around Apache Kafka®.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aiven supports Apache Kafka® 3.2]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/aiven-supports-apache-kafka-3.2</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 07:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aiven now supports the newly released Apache Kafka version 3.2, which comes with a number of enhancements. Read on to find out what it means for you.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Filip Yonov</dc:creator>
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