Speaking Crabs, June 2023

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!