OSACon Courses

Agnostic is the Only Constant - Embracing the Lakehouse Paradigm Without Lock-In

Discover how to build vendor-agnostic Lakehouse architectures using open-source tools like Lakekeeper and Apache Iceberg for portable, cloud-neutral data analytics without lock-in.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Open Source's Massive Unfair Advantage in the AI Era

Discover why open source dominates AI development through structural advantages in training data, developer velocity, and community-driven innovation over proprietary solutions.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OLAP in Your App - Integrating Realtime and Agentic Analytics into Your App

Discover how to build conversation-fast analytics backends using open-source tools like ClickHouse, Postgres, and RedPanda for real-time AI chat systems and data visualizations.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Open Source Businesses Will Thrive in the Age of AI

Discover how Commercial Open Source Software businesses can leverage LLM and AI advances to drive demand and thrive in the evolving tech landscape.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

ClickHouse Chronicles - Real-World War Rooms with Human and AI Agents

Dive into real-world ClickHouse war room stories, debugging production issues, and practical frameworks combining human intuition with AI assistance for distributed systems troubleshooting.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SQL Window Functions in Five Easy Steps

Master SQL Window Functions through five clear steps to unlock powerful analytics beyond basic GROUP BY clauses for deeper data insights.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Don't Fire Your Developers and Other Lessons for the AI Revolution

Discover how to merge human capabilities with AI power in analytics and open source software, exploring surprising changes and strategies for thriving in the AI revolution.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI-Native Analytics - Building the Next Generation of Decision Systems

Explore how AI-native analytics transforms enterprise decision-making through natural language interfaces, moving beyond static dashboards to conversational, intelligent systems.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scaling Data Pipelines at Magenta Telekom

Discover how Magenta Telekom scales terabyte-scale data pipelines using unified asset graphs, event-based processing, and dependency injection to empower non-technical users.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What the Spec?! - New Features in Apache Iceberg Table Format V3

Discover Apache Iceberg™ Table Format V3's exciting new features including Variant types for semi-structured data, Row Lineage for enhanced CDC capabilities, and more game-changing functionality.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Companies vs. Foundations - Who Should Steer Your Open Source Project?

Explore governance models for open source projects, comparing company-backed vs foundation-backed approaches through real-world examples and funding considerations.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Apache Superset Extensions - Taking Open Source BI to the Next Level

Discover Apache Superset's new extensions architecture that enables rapid expansion of BI capabilities while simplifying development and maintenance workflows.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Streaming Analytics in Action - Real-World Case Studies from Uber, Razorpay, and Stripe

Explore real-time data processing strategies from Uber, Razorpay, and Stripe to unlock speed, scale, and actionable insights for streaming analytics implementation.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Everything I Learned About ClickHouse was From Real Workloads

Discover ClickHouse fundamentals and advanced techniques for real-world observability workloads, from columnar storage basics to custom inverted indexes and terabyte-scale optimization.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Micromegas - Unified Observability for Video Games

Discover how to build an open source observability stack that tracks every frame of video games, handling thousands of events per 1/60th second when traditional databases fail.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video