We at SingleStore love hosting meetups at our headquarters, which provide a hands-on way to share our work, connect with the community, and get in-person feedback. Last year's meetups covered topics such as building real-time data pipelines and powering geospatial dashboards, including sessions led by experts like Chandan Joarder from Macy's and Matt Irwin of Mapbox. These events showcased innovative approaches to data exploration and visualization, demonstrated the use of Apache Kafka with Confluent and SingleStore, and highlighted the importance of exactly-once semantics in real-time streaming applications.