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            <title><![CDATA[Prototyping For Free, Scaling For Cheap with Aiven Dev Tier]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Building Community Event Search with Aiven Dev Tier for Postgres and Apache Kafka]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Hugh Evans</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Two weeks left to win $5k: Challenging the Kafka community to build big with small Kafka]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:36:23 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We challenged the community to build something cool with our Free Apache Kafka offering for a chance to win $5k. Here are more of their awesome projects!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[$5k Up for Grabs: See What People Are Building with Free Tier Kafka]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We challenged the community to build something cool with our Free Apache Kafka offering for a chance to win $5k, here’s some of the awesome submissions so far!]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Hugh Evans</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Free Tier Apache Kafka® Competition]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:46:07 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Win $5,000 by building a cool project using Aiven’s new free tier Kafka, and sharing it online with #FreeKafka or #FreeTierKafka.
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            <title><![CDATA[How I discovered pigeons sabotaging my project with Aiven Free-Tier Kafka]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[How I used Aiven's free Kafka tier to monitor my smart bird feeder in real-time]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Hugh Evans</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Open-Source BigQuery Sink Connector Saga]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The story of how this connector switched hands three times and how Aiven came to maintain it.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Hugh Evans</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Getting Started with Iceberg Topics for Apache Kafka®: A Beginner's Guide]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Understand how Kafka can write directly to Apache Iceberg and experiment locally with Docker and Spark]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Hugh Evans</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Understanding Apache Kafka® Performance: Diskless Topics Deep Dive]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Diskless Kafka topics store data directly to object storage for massive cost savings and unlimited retention, but require higher latency tolerance.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Jorge Quilcate</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Getting Started with Diskless Kafka: A Beginner's Guide]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Understand KIP-1150 concepts and experiment locally with Diskless Apache Kafka® on Docker and MinIO.]]></description>
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