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        <title>Aiven Blog | Oskari Saarenmaa</title>
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        <description>Chief Executive Officer at Aiven</description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aiven Surpasses $100M ARR: Story of Community, Open Source, and What’s Next]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[From vision to $100M ARR: Aiven's journey built on open source, empowering developers, and shaping the future of data infrastructure.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Coexistence of Open Source and Proprietary Software: Striking the Balance]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:42:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Discover how to build a technology infrastructure to get the best of both open source and proprietary software]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aiven welcomes Kafkawize, now Klaw]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aiven enters the next phase of its open source commitment with Apache Kafka® data governance. Read what Oskari Saarenmaa has to say about Kafkawize.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Raising a unicorn worth $2 billion - another letter from our CEO]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aiven extended its Series C to $160 million, reaching unicorn status. Find out what it means for Aiven and for the future of open source data technologies.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Aiven from zero to $800M - a letter from our CEO]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Since 2017, Aiven has grown from zero to a global company with 140 employees and a valuation of over $800M. Join me in reliving some of that story.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Coming soon: MySQL on Aiven]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aiven Blog: Read about the 2019 launch of Aiven for MySQL, a popular database engine for better handling of back-ups in cloud environments. ]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aiven talks in PostgresConf US 2018]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We visited New York and New Jersey this week to meet partners and speak in PostgresConf US in Jersey City.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[PostgreSQL® Performance in AWS, GCP, Azure, DO and UpCloud]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Want to know how PostgreSQL performs in different clouds, as well as best practices for benchmarking? Then be sure to check out our latest test results.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aiven in Google Tokyo & other updates]]></title>
            <link>https://aiven.io/blog/aiven-in-google-tokyo-other-updates</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aiven is now active in Google Tokyo and we’re planning some feature additions to our Kafka and PostgreSQL services. Find out more.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[User management improvements and new Azure regions launched]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As Microsoft Azure builds, so does Aiven. Find out what new regions are available and how we’ve improved project management for Aiven services.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Backing up tablespaces and streaming WAL with PGHoard]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Our open-source PGHoard’s latest version is now available. Find out what new features were added and how to get the most out of it.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[Even bigger PostgreSQL® plans now available]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Our bread and butter is PostgreSQL, which is why we continue to add bigger and better plans to Aiven. Find out the latest plan options here.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[PostgreSQL cloud backups with PGHoard]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aiven-built PGHoard is a pretty neat cloud backup and restore solution. Find out what it does exactly and how to set it up in this latest blog post.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Oskari Saarenmaa</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[SSL-enabled custom domains in Aiven for Grafana® and Kibana]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Now your browser will immediately recognize your web frontend services launched from Aiven. Find out how you can set up SSL-enabled custom domains here.]]></description>
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