Meet with Aiven at Iceberg Summit 2026!
Apr 8, 2026 - Apr 9, 2026
08:00-17:00 PT
Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, United States
Aiven is thrilled to be sponsoring Iceberg Summit 2026, visit our booth (#B2) to discover how Aiven can help you:
- Break down the barriers of architecture sprawl - the need to manage separate silos for streaming, relational data, and search - by providing a single, open-source foundation built for the Apache Iceberg ecosystem.
- Run Kafka, Diskless, and Iceberg topics side-by-side in one cluster: Kafka for sub-100ms with optional Tiered Storage handoff, Diskless for cost-optimized object-store streams, and Iceberg Topics for native tables/SQL with seconds-level freshness— each opt-in per topic, no client API change, and no migrations.
- Stop service sprawl. Aiven offers your favorite open-source services - Kafka, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and more - on one unified platform.
- Manage your entire data infrastructure easily from a single control plane, giving you more time to innovate.
- Connect your data services across multiple cloud vendors and regions without the overhead
Book a demo or meeting with our experts
AIVEN SESSION
Hear from our experts on Apache Iceberg topics
- 11:00-11:15, April 8
- Lightning talk
From Black Box to Breakpoints: Debugging the Kafka Connect Iceberg Connector
If you ingest Kafka data into Iceberg via Kafka connector, debugging failures can be painful. Connector issues are hard to reproduce when runtime state is split across worker properties, connector configs, and catalog backends. Join us for an IDE‑first workflow: run an embedded Connect worker in‑process, use Testcontainers for Kafka/Schema Registry/object storage, and debug with breakpoints. A multi‑task setup mirrors real Connect behavior and lets you run upstream connector tests against your catalog or FileIO.
We’ll apply the workflow to two real failures:
* a config‑provider crash when worker properties are applied twice with Kafka’s config‑provider allowlist enabled;
* REST catalog responses that diverge from the Iceberg REST spec (error types, auto‑create).
Both cases are reproducible in the upstream versions we tested.
You’ll see how to isolate each issue, turn it into targeted integration tests, and leave with a reusable harness and a minimal embedded‑Connect runner pattern. All examples run locally.Anatolii Popov
Benefits of Aiven Platform
Multi-cloud solutions
Aiven's capability to deploy to any cloud empowers your organization with:
- Workload and Cost Optimization: Choose the ideal cloud provider for each task to maximize performance and cost-efficiency. Benefit from competitive pricing across different cloud providers.
- Risk Mitigation: Distribute data and applications across regions and providers for enhanced business continuity.
- Streamlined Operations: Manage your data infrastructure on a centralized platform across multiple clouds to reduce complexity and ensure compliance with data residency regulations.
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
Aiven offers flexible deployment options for your data services, catering to various business needs and preferences. Choose the deployment model that best aligns with your organization's priorities, whether it's convenience, cost savings, or maximum control.
- Aiven infrastructure: A hassle-free solution where Aiven takes care of all cloud configurations, maintenance, and costs, allowing you to focus on your core business.
- Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC): Deploy Aiven services directly to your existing cloud account giving you greater control over your data and infrastructure. BYOC allows you to:
- Leverage your existing cloud investments and negotiated discounts.
- Maintain strict control over your data and comply with specific security or regulatory requirements.
- Customize your infrastructure to meet your unique needs.
- Benefit from Aiven's expertise and support while retaining full control.
Choice of integrated open source services
Build with Aiven's popular data services that best fit your specific use cases to stream, store, and serve data to your systems and applications.
- Build faster with skilled talent: Gain access to the skills of a broad community of open source experts.
- Innovation and Collaboration: Benefit from open source's collaborative culture which accelerates the development of new features and improvements.
- Security and Reliability: Improve security and reliability compared to proprietary software where the code is not publicly accessible. The open nature of open source ensures that many eyes are constantly reviewing and testing the code.
Cross-cloud and cross-region disaster recovery
Aiven enables your data infrastructure to be highly available, reliable, and operational even in the face of disruptions or failures.
- High Availability: Leverage multiple availability zones, regions, and providers to ensure your data is replicated and distributed across different locations. If one location or provider experiences an outage, your services can seamlessly failover to another, minimizing downtime.
- Automated Backups and Recovery: Aiven automatically creates backups of your data at regular intervals. In case of data loss or corruption, you can easily restore your data from these backups, ensuring business continuity.
AI database optimization to boost efficiency
Aiven's AI Database Optimizer quickly helps your organization understand how to tune your PostgreSQL and MySQL queries to save your organization engineering time, and money on your database bills.
- Accelerate development: Receive AI-driven index and SQL rewrite suggestions in minutes.
- Reduce incident resolution time: Gain real-time performance insights and optimization suggestions.
- Optimize before production: Ensure applications are performant and scalable before release.
- Free up DBA resources: Allow DBAs to focus on high-value tasks.