In this episode, Jaime López, Head of Marketing at Ververica, chats with Erik Schmiegelow, CEO and Co-founder of Hivemind, about the evolving landscape of real-time data architectures and their growing connection to AI.

They discuss the tradeoffs between batch, micro-batch, and streaming, real-world use cases in renewable integration and risk prevention, and the impact of technologies on modern data stacks. Erik also shares insights on where he sees real-time heading in the next five years.

In this episode, we are joined by Vladimir Jandreski, Cheif Product Officer of Ververica, to dive into the most exciting news, product launches, and key innovations unveiled at Flink Forward Barcelona 2025, highlighting the future of real-time data streaming and Apache Flink’s evolving ecosystem.

In this episode, host Giannis Polyzos, Staff Streaming Product Architect at Ververica, is joined by Jark Wu and Leonard Xufrom Alibaba Cloud to explore the story behind Fluss, one of the key highlights from Flink Forward Barcelona 2025. Together, they discuss Fluss’ role in shaping streaming storage for real-time analytics, and what’s coming in the upcoming 0.8 release.