Olena Kutsenko’s Post

The data streaming event you don’t want to miss - #Current25 - is just around the corner! While I’m still working on building a time machine to be at multiple talks at once 😁 (a person can dream!), here are 10 sessions I’m especially excited about: ⚡ Building Stream Processing Platform at OpenAI – Shuyi Chen & Joey Pereira, OpenAI: A peek behind the curtain at how OpenAI uses #ApacheFlink for real-time data workflows. 🎯 Unlocking the Mysteries of Apache Flink – David Anderson, Confluent: A friendly intro to #ApacheFlink that clears up the mysteries of checkpoints, watermarks, and other puzzling parts 🐿️ . 🧩 Bite Size Streams: Learning Advanced Kafka Streams Concepts One Simple Topology at a Time – Neil Buesing, Kinetic Edge: An interactive journey to learn advanced Kafka Streams concepts, step by step. 🛠️ Kafka Productivity Tools in the Age of AI – Michael Drogalis, ShadowTraffic: A thoughtful take on Kafka tooling that balances quick wins from AI with solid engineering practices. ❄️ The Luge: Apache Iceberg™ and Streaming – Danica Fine, Snowflake: An insightful overview of what’s happening in the world of #ApacheIceberg now - and where it’s headed. 🧠 Simplifying Real-Time Vector Store Ingestion with Apache Flink – Hans-Peter Grahsl, Decodable: A look at how to build a real-time ingestion pipeline for vector stores, powered by Flink. 📈 Continuous Forecasting and Anomaly Detection with Flink SQL – Siddharth B., Confluent: Real-time forecasting and anomaly detection — all using Flink SQL, no external ML tools needed! 🤖 Flink Jobs as Agents 🤖 – Unlocking Agentic AI with Stream Processing  – Steffen Hoellinger, Airy: Explore how Flink and Kafka enable agent-based AI systems - the next wave of real-time intelligence. 📦 From Zero to Hero: Petabyte-Scale Tiered Storage Lessons – Francesco Tisiot & Filip Yonov, Aiven: Tips from the trenches on optimizing Kafka clusters for performance, cost, and overall health. ⏱️ Blur the line between real-time and batch with Apache Kafka, Druid, and Iceberg – Dave Klein, Imply: See how Kafka, Druid, and Iceberg come together to reshape modern data pipelines. Which talks are you most excited about? Would love to hear your picks too! Register now using this link to get 40% off https://lnkd.in/dDncPTnF