Who are we and what do we do?
We’re a team that helps our customers (technical ones, but that’s basically all of them with a platform like Aiven) work with Aiven more easily. We work to boost awareness of Aiven among developers, and boost awareness of developers within Aiven.
More specifically we:
- produce (and review) technical content and videos
- present (and help Aiven present) at tech events
- provide community spaces at meetups and our forum
- work closely with product teams to provide feedback
- connect with customers and prospects
- represent Aiven in the community and industry (appearing on podcasts, live streams, etc)
To learn more about our team, see Aiven DevRel team: enabling success in open source data tech.
Month At-A-Glance
Read about awesome community members we’re collaborating with in the Community Shout-Outs section.
We did talks at Events including Devopsdays Chicago.
Additionally, Meetups were held around the world in Jakarta and Singapore (and Chicago too).
Our team delivered tons of great Technical Content, like on using Netlify to deploy a Next.js, PostgreSQL® and Redis®* app, and much more!
Customer and Community Highlights
Community Insights
- @OlenaKutsenko got nominated and selected as a Confluent Catalyst for 2023-24!
Community Shout-Outs
- Shout-out to Philippe Charrière of GitLab for a fantastic step-by-step tutorial on how to quickly get up and running with Aiven’s free Redis database backend. It also introduces Capsule, a Go-based project to run WebAssembly modules in the CLI or over HTTP.
- Yaroslav Tkachenko, Principal Software Engineer at Goldsky, celebrated our work on Kafka Tiered Storage.
Meetups & Events (Completed)
Each month, we host Open Source Data Infrastructure (OSDI) Meetups around the world for a developer audience, and speak at conferences, make podcast appearances, create live streams, and more!
Second OSDI Meetup in Singapore August 2 @ Google with PingCap
AMER
Devopsdays Chicago: @dewan gave a workshop together with Peter ONeill about “Enforce Fine-Grained Policy Control Across Development and Production Environments”. The tutorial lives here. @mattstratton organized the August 9-10 event, with a global get-together of Devopsdays organizers taking place the day before, which Matty and @Floor (ao) organized and spoke at.- Chicago OSDI Meetup: While in the area, @dewan and @jennjunod hosted the very first Chicago OSDI Meetup at Discover Financial. Ehfaj Khan (Discover) spoke about transitioning from batch to event-driven, and @dewan gave a talk about using Terraform to codify your data infrastructure. Find the recording here.
- Google Cloud Next: @BenGamble7 supported the engagement, and brought a fun game experience of Crab Rock Paper Scissor.
APAC
Singapore OSDI Meetup: Vanessa Wong organized the second OSDI Meetup in Singapore at Google Asia Pacific, featuring talks about MySQL alternatives by Bhanu Jamwal (PingCap) and Kafka Cloud strategies by Kaijun Xu (Google Cloud).
Jakarta OSDI Meetup: With Arif Rakhman from eFishery talking about contributing to open source databases.
Global / Virtual
- @Floor joined the Path to CitusCon podcast, with Chelsea Dole, Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia to explore the app developer perspective on PostgreSQL.
- @jennjunod and @dewan kicked off the very first Aiven Livestream on August 23, 2023. Watch the recording.
Meetups & Events (Upcoming)
Here are the events you will find us at next: aiven.io/events
EMEA
Javazone (September 6-7, Oslo): Make sure you join @OlenaKutsenko for her talk “ClickHouse: what is behind the fastest columnar database?”
DevRelCon London (September 7-8): @BenGamble7 will talk about improving the visibility and buy-in of DevRel work, and @Floor will run the Unconference with Dan - Phrawzty - Maher from Scaleway.- OSDI London (September 8): In collaboration with Weaviate, @BenGamble7 to speak on “Real time data matching with AI”.
AWS Community Day DACH (September 13): Meet the AWS community, and join @OlenaKutsenko for her talk “Using OpenSearch and Apache Kafka to explore Mastodon”.
Containerdays Hamburg (September 11-12): @Floor will be one of the room hosts for Containerdays Hamburg.
Open Source Summit (September 19-21): Join @celestehorgan-aiven for her talk “Building on-Ramps for Non-Code Contributors in Open Source”, with Natali Vlatko.
OSDI Stockholm (September 28): Join the Stockholm Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup for talks by Pär Eriksson and Gustav Norbäcker from Irori.
OSDI Helsinki (September 22): Daniel de Freitas, DevOps Engineer, and Tatiana Koroleva, Staff Engineer for Infrastructure at Wolt, will talk about scaling Kafka.
Devoxx Ukraine (September 22): Join @OlenaKutsenko, virtually, for her talk “ClickHouse: what is behind the fastest columnar database”.- PyCon UK (September 25): Register for PyCon UK and join @tibs_at_aiven for their fun talk “How I used PostgreSQL® to find pictures of me at a party”.
AMER
- Denver Startup Week (September 18-22): Join @jennjunod for her session “Breaking the stigma of mental health neurodiversity in tech” at Denver Startup Week.
- Current 2023 (September 26-27, San Jose, California): Chris Egerton, Greg Harris and @ftisiot will all be speaking at the Apache Kafka® and real-time streaming event of the year.
- OpenSearchCon (September 27-29, Seattle): Join @jkowall at OpenSearchCon for his session “18 months of operating OpenSearch at scale”.
- OSDI Toronto (September 28): Join the Toronto Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup for exciting talks by speakers from Hookdeck, Instacart, and Dremio.
APAC
Devopsdays Bengaluru (October 20-21, Bangalore, India): Join @Floor in Bangalore, for her session “Scaling your work in the open - Tech is only the tip of the iceberg”.
Global / Virtual
- TypeScript Congress (September 21): Join @jennjunod for her talk “Lessons Learned While Learning Live”, online and from the comfort of your sofa. Also: @Floor is hosting parts of the event.
Technical Content
This section covers new technical content published on Aiven’s…
Blog: thought-leadership pieces, announcements
Developer Center: tutorials, example code
YouTube: how-tos, conference talks, meetup recordings, livestreams
Forum: frequently asked questions, release announcements
(General)
- @mattstratton and Kat Cosgrove (Dell) co-authored the piece A Brief DevOps History: Databases to Infinity and Beyond for The New Stack. It offers a timeline of how databases evolved from the 1950s through the 1970s (the evolution since then will be covered in a second article). This content is from a presentation originally delivered to the Toronto Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup.
- Monitoring your metrics with Aiven, with @jennjunod
- We published a piece on Controlling non-production Aiven Services with the CLI, by @TroySellers.
Apache Kafka
- The recording of the Berlin OSDI meetup on TiDB and Data Balancing with Apache Kafka is now live.
PostgreSQL®
- Aiven PostgreSQL Service Maintenance Updates, with @jennjunod
- Getting Started with Users in pgAdmin and Aiven, with @jennjunod
- How to upgrade from Aiven Free Tier, with @jennjunod
Redis
- @tibs_at_aiven wrote a tutorial on how to Set up Django to use Aiven for Redis®*. Django is a fully-featured high-level Python web framework. The tutorial shows how to get it to cache its data in Redis.
- @dewan reviewed a new guide on using Netlify to deploy a Next.js, PostgreSQL® and Redis®* app.
Terraform