# Streamfest Day 2: Smarter streaming in the cloud and the future of Kafka

DevFeed: [Streamfest Day 2: Smarter streaming in the cloud and the future of Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/streamfest-day-2-smarter-streaming-in-the-cloud-and-the-future-of-kafka-12760.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.redpanda.com/blog/redpanda-streamfest-2025-day-2>)

Author: Jenny Medeiros

Published: 2025-11-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Redpanda](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/redpanda.md>)

Topics: [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [case-studies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-studies.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [confluent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/confluent.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [event](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [object-storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object-storage.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [product-updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-updates.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>), [virtual-event](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtual-event.md>)

## AI overview

A recap of the second day of Redpanda Streamfest 2025, covering data streaming for real-time applications, analytics, and AI. It highlights Redpanda Cloud Topics, a storage tier that uses object storage to help optimize workloads for latency, cost, or performance, along with a planned Redpanda Shadowing migration path from Confluent.

## Source excerpt

Redpanda Streamfest is a two-day virtual event for developers to master data streaming for the AI era. Here's what happened on day two.