Jul 7, 2023

Speaking Crabs, June 2023

A roundup of the talks, workshops, podcasts and more Aiven cast members have given or spoken on, as well as where you can find us in July 2023!

Celeste Horgan
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Developer Educator at Aiven

A picture of Angie Byron — Angie Byron
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Director of Community at Aiven

Events

Aiven is passionate about supporting speakers and engaging open source and developer communities through content. Here’s what we got up to in June 2023:

Olena Kutsenko, one of Aiven’s Developer Advocates, spoke at JSNation: Apache Kafka® Simply Explained With TypeScript Examples
Olena Kutsenko also spoke at Berlin Buzzwords 2023: ClickHouse®: what is behind the fastest columnar database
Celeste Horgan, one of Aiven’s Developer Educators, spoke at Berlin Buzzwords 2023: Building On-Ramps for Non-Code Contributors in Open Source
Olena Kutsenko and Olena Babenko, one of Aiven’s Software Engineers spoke at Kafka Summit London 2023: The Dark and Dirty Side of Fixing Uneven Partitions
Olena Kutsenko spoke at DevoxxUK 2023: Using Apache Kafka and OpenSearch® to explore Mastodon
Sébastian Blanc, one of Aiven’s Developer Advocates, spoke at VoxxedDays Luxembourg 2023: A legacy app enters a Serverless bar
Olena Kutsenko also spoke at VoxxedDays Luxembourg 2023: Beginner’s guide to balance your data across Apache Kafka partitions
Matty Stratton, Aiven’s Director of Developer Relations, gave the day 2 keynote at DevOps Talks Melbourne: Zero Trust is for Networks, Not Your Teams
Matt Cornillon, one of Aiven’s Solutions Architects gave a talk at PGDay France 2023 (in French): From the leaf to the Elephant
Dewan Ahmad, one of Aiven’s Developer Advocates, spoke at PGCon 2023 Ottawa: Who's managing the credentials for your database?
Ronan Dunklau, one of Aiven’s Software Engineers, also spoke at PGCon 2023 Ottawa: PGTracer: A Tracing Tool for Postgres Backends
Patrick Stählin, one of Aiven’s Software Engineers, spoke at Swiss PG Day 2033 in German: Was ist MVCC und was sind die Auswirkungen davon?. There’s no recording but you can view the slides!

We also gave some workshops:

Oleka Kutsenko led a Beginners guide to balance your data across Apache Kafka partitions at DevNexus Atlanta 2023

And appeared on some podcasts:

Angie Byron was on the Changelog Podcast’s episode on Maintaining Maintainers
Francesco Tsiot, one of Aiven’s Developer Advocates, was on Arrested DevOps talking about Data! Data! Data!
Olena Kutsenko was on RTA Podcast with Tim Berglund’s episode about Apache Kafka

Where to find us in July

Aiven cast members at at the following events in July:

Angie Byron, Aiven’s Director of Community, will be speaking at FOSSY 2023: Lessons Learned From Scaling An Open Source Community By 10,000%
Tibs, one of Aiven’s Developer Educators, will be speaking at EuroPython 2023: Fish and chips and Apache Kafka®
Markos Sfikas, one of Aiven’s Product Marketing Managers, will be speaking at Product Marketing Festival 2023: From boring to intriguing: how storytelling can help marketing complex products

Sébastian Blanc will be one of the hosts at Riviera Dev in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Every month Aiven hosts Open Source Data Infrastructure (OSDI) Meetups around the world, bringing together developers working with Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, OpenSearch®, ClickHouse®, MySQL and more. We’ll be hosting the following meetups in July:

Thursday, July 13, 2023: Berlin OSDI Meetup featuring Mattias Jonson of PingCAP’s talk: Introduction to TiDB - a distributed SQL database
Friday, July 28, 2023: New York OSDI Meetup, featuring Brooke Jamieson of AWS’ talk: Demystifying Vector Databases: Your Next Must-Learn Technology

We hope to see you in July!

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