Building an AI Ready Data Backbone: Dima Kan at AICamp 2026
Blog post: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/webinar-building-an-ai-ready-data-backbone-with-aiven-google-cloud-4629f97f69bd LLM/RAG/AI Agents course: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/course-large-language-models-and-generative-ai-for-nlp-2025-98e31780de30 Free tier OpenSearch: https://aiven.io/free-opensearch Dev tier OpenSearch (Free tier VM + more disk + integrations): https://aiven.io/developer-tier-opensearch Time codes: 1:01 Dima's intro + Vector Podcast 4:56 About Aiven 7:06 Why best? - Question from the audience 10:22 Free Tier OpenSearch! 11:57 Aiven's unifed platform 12:58 OpenSearch: What and Why 17:00 Why OpenSearch is AI-Ready? 18:26 What Aiven's OpenSearch gives you 20:44 Lexical vs semantic search 22:51 Technical use cases of OpenSearch 24:17 Reference Architecture with Kafka as event processor, and OpenSearch as storage and search layer 25:37 Aiven's case studies for OpenSearch 26:27 When to choose OpenSearch? 28:21 Demo of OpenSearch query UI 32:12 Is there any advantage in using Qdrant over OpenSearch? - Question from the audience 34:30 What is the vector lenght (in this demo)? - Question from the audience 36:27 What are the main advantages of Aiven's OpenSearch compared to Elasticsearch? - Question from the audience 32:11 Demo of Search Relevancy Workbench: visual way of searching Show notes: - User Behaviour Insights: https://www.ubisearch.dev/ - Webinar's demo code part 1: Episode download / transcribe / index: https://github.com/dimakan-dev/conduit-transcripts/blob/main/DATA_PROCESSING_GUIDE.md - Webinar's demo code part 2: Main UI and quality dashboards: https://github.com/dimakan-dev/preparing-data-for-opensearch-and-rag/blob/main/workshop/STREAMLIT_README.md (edited) RESOURCES Create your free Aiven account: https://go.aiven.io/youtube-signup AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools. CONNECT WITH US Website: http://aiven.io LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aiven/ GitHub: https://github.com/aiven X: https://twitter.com/aiven_io