Hugh Evans

Senior Product Advocate, Aiven

Based in London, United Kingdom

Hi, I'm Hugh.

I'm an experienced developer advocate and community manager with a particular interest in data and AI. I have been working in IT for over 5 years, working on large scale software projects and cloud infrastructure.

Out of office hours I organise AI and Deep Learning for Enterprise (aidle.uk) , a Meetup group which hosts talks on real world applications of AI.

I'm a former apprentice and an advocate for vocational learning as a pathway into an IT career.

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Blogs by Hugh Evans

Jun 17, 2026
Prototyping For Free, Scaling For Cheap with Aiven Dev Tier
Building Community Event Search with Aiven Dev Tier for Postgres and Apache Kafka
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Jan 15, 2026
Two weeks left to win $5k: Challenging the Kafka community to build big with small Kafka
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!
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Jan 8, 2026
$5k Up for Grabs: See What People Are Building with Free Tier Kafka
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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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Sep 4, 2025
Getting Started with Iceberg Topics for Apache Kafka®: A Beginner's Guide
Understand how Kafka can write directly to Apache Iceberg and experiment locally with Docker and Spark
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Jul 31, 2025
Understanding Apache Kafka® Performance: Diskless Topics Deep Dive
Diskless Kafka topics store data directly to object storage for massive cost savings and unlimited retention, but require higher latency tolerance.
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Jun 19, 2025
Getting Started with Diskless Kafka: A Beginner's Guide
Understand KIP-1150 concepts and experiment locally with Diskless Apache Kafka® on Docker and MinIO.
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Hugh Evans

Get your 30-day free trial

Blogs by Hugh Evans

Prototyping For Free, Scaling For Cheap with Aiven Dev Tier

Two weeks left to win $5k: Challenging the Kafka community to build big with small Kafka

$5k Up for Grabs: See What People Are Building with Free Tier Kafka

Free Tier Apache Kafka® Competition

How I discovered pigeons sabotaging my project with Aiven Free-Tier Kafka

The Open-Source BigQuery Sink Connector Saga

Getting Started with Iceberg Topics for Apache Kafka®: A Beginner's Guide

Understanding Apache Kafka® Performance: Diskless Topics Deep Dive

Getting Started with Diskless Kafka: A Beginner's Guide