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
It’s pretember, so we prepared
We delivered talks at Events including Current23, JavaZone, Open Source Summit
Additionally, Meetups were held in London , Toronto, Stockholm and Helsinki
Our team delivered tons of great Technical Content, including Deploy a JAMstack web application on Netlify and much more!
Community Highlights
This section covers customer-facing activities we’ve done, interesting insights from conversations we’ve had at events, etc.
Our video with Digital Ocean, talking about Klaw’s plans for Hacktoberfest
- Tim Mamo, Senior Developer Advocate at Digital Ocean, and @mirjam and @mathieu-anderson from the Klaw team, recorded a video to explain their plans for Hacktoberfest - the annual celebration of Open Source Software.
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!
At the September OSDI London, with our partner Weaviate
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Javazone (September 6-7, Oslo): @OlenaKutsenko talked about “ClickHouse: what is behind the fastest columnar database?”. Watch it here.
DevRelCon London (September 7-8): @BenGamble7 talked about improving the visibility and buy-in of DevRel work, and @Floor ran the Unconference.
- OSDI London (September 8): In collaboration with Weaviate, @BenGamble7 spoke on “Real time data matching with AI”. Video recording is on YouTube.
AWS Community Day DACH (September 13): Olena Kutsenko talked about “Using OpenSearch and Apache Kafka to explore Mastodon”.
Open Source Summit (September 19-21): Celeste Horgan talked about “Building on-Ramps for Non-Code Contributors in Open Source”, with Natali Vlatko.
OSDI Helsinki (September 22): Daniel de Freitas and Tatiana Koroleva from Wolt talked about scaling Kafka.- PyCon UK (September 25): @tibs_at_aiven’ session “How I used PostgreSQL® to find pictures of me at a party” was recorded. The slides and other supporting materials are up on Aiven-Labs.
OSDI Stockholm (September 28): The video for the Stockholm meetup with Pär Eriksson and Gustav Norbäcker from Irori will be published shortly.
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Denver Startup Week (September 18-22): @jennjunod talked about “Breaking the stigma of mental health neurodiversity in tech”.- Current 2023 (September 26-27, San Jose, California), we had several people speaking:
- OpenSearchCon (September 27-29, Seattle): @jkowall delivered his session “18 months of operating OpenSearch at scale”. And we sponsored the event!
- OSDI Toronto (September 28): With sessions by Hookdeck, Instacart, and Dremio, the recording will be published shortly.
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Global / Virtual
- TypeScript Congress (September 21): @jennjunod talked about “Lessons Learned While Learning Live”. Video to be available later in the year.
- Devoxx Ukraine (September 22): @OlenaKutsenko talked about “ClickHouse: what is behind the fastest columnar database”.
Meetups & Events (Upcoming)
Here are the events you will find us at next: Worldwide conferences, meetups, webinars and events | Aiven.
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Devoxx Belgium (October 2-6): Joining Devoxx Belgium as speakers this year are @sebi and @OlenaKutsenko. Learn about Kafka partitions, and about writing your first VS Code extension from them!
Devopsdays Eindhoven (October 11-12): Join Claude Warren, Jr for his two (2!) talks at this Devopsdays. @Floor is one of the organizers.
Big Data Conference (November 22-24, Vilnius): Join @ftisiot’s session “Attacking (and defending) Apache Kafka” at Big Data Conference Europe this November, virtually, or in-person!
PGConf EU (December 12-15): Join Matt Cornillon, Senior Solution Architect, for his session “How I found my Pokémon cards thanks to Postgres: an AI journey”. Also: come say “hi” at the booth!
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Community over Code (October 7-10, Halifax): Matthew de Detrich will be speaking at Community over Code (formerly ApacheCon), about “Pekko: Hard solutions to the issues of hard-forking”.
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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”.
- We’re also hosting the first India Open Source Data Infrastructure Meetup, October 22.
Global / Virtual
- All Day DevOps (October 26-27): Join @Floor and Claude Warren, Jr for their talks during the 8th annual 24 hours “ADDO”.
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)
- Livestreaming: @jennjunod and Dewan Ahmed kicked off the first Aiven livestream with Netlify + Aiven tutorial. Dewan moved to Harness October 1, and we wish him all the best
- Add Aiven database magic to your Laravel project
- Get things done with the Aiven CLI
Apache Flink
- Data refinement in action: Apache Flink® for data transformation into Google BigQuery
- Apache Flink® SQL client on Docker
Apache Kafka
- Teach yourself Apache Kafka® and Python with a Jupyter Notebook
- Using Kafka Connect JDBC Source: a PostgreSQL® example
- Enabling change data capture from MySQL to Apache Kafka® with Debezium
ClickHouse®
MySQL
- Deploy a JAMstack web application on Netlify with data services provided by Aiven by Dewan Ahmed. This blog compliments the popular dev centre tutorial on Netlify and Aiven for PostgreSQL but uses MySQL instead of PostgreSQL.
- Enabling change data capture from MySQL to Apache Kafka® with Debezium
OpenSearch
- Write search queries with Python and OpenSearch® to find delicious recipes
- Start using OpenSearch® with NodeJS
PostgreSQL®
- Deploying Scalable Next.js Applications on Netlify with PostgreSQL and Redis
- @jennjunod recorded Exploring Postgres and the Aiven platform
- Image recognition with Python, OpenCV, OpenAI CLIP and pgvector
- How to stand up multiregion PostgreSQL® with Pulumi
- Solving the knapsack problem in PostgreSQL®
- Aiven for PostgreSQL® for your Go application
Redis