2023-10 Edition: What’s Up With DevRel?
An overview of DevRel team profiles found at Aiven DevRel team: enabling success in open source data tech
Month At-A-Glance
We delivered talks at Events including Devoxx Belgium, Data at Scale, Devopsdays Eindhoven, Community over Code, Devopsdays Bengaluru, Cloud Nord and Asynconf.
Additionally, Meetups were held around the world in Munich, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Bengaluru.
Our team delivered tons of great Technical Content, including an article on how to use ClickHouse vector search with HuggingFace APIs and much more !- We kicked off our online workshops
Community Highlights
This section covers customer-facing activities we’ve done, interesting insights from conversations we’ve had at events, etc.
Olena delivering her talk at the biggest developer event in Europe : DevoxxBE
Higher level policy stuff
- Heikki Nousiainen spoke at Mindtrek 2023 (Tampere, Finland, October 3) about “The Case for Open Source in the Public Sector”. As captured here.
Community Shout-Outs
- Thank you to Jonathan Villa for helping us coordinating the first Barcelona OSDI Meetup. Teaming up with the Barcelona JUG was really a win-win situation for the community.
- Thank you to Nancy Chauhan, Aditya Oberai, and Rohit Ghumare for helping with the first edition of the OSDI India Meetup !
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!
Full house at the first Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup in India
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Devoxx Belgium (October 2-6): Joining Devoxx Belgium as speakers this year are Sébastien Blanc and Olena Kutsenko. Learn about Kafka partitions, and about writing your first VS Code extension from them!
Real Time Data at Scale - Tallinn (October 11): @OlenaKutsenko talked about best practices when handling Apache Kafka partitions
Devopsdays Eindhoven (October 11-12): Claude Warren, Jr had two (2!) talks at this Devopsdays. Ben Gamble took the opening keynote, talking about ethics in/and AI. Floor Drees is one of the organizers.
Cloud Nord (October 12): Sébastien Blanc delivered the opening keynote talking about the future of Cloud Native.
Munich OSDI meetup (October 19): Many thanks to Calum Muir who both hosted and spoke about Kafka Tiered Storage this meetup, which also featured a talk on “Iterations of the Data Engineering Stack” by Paul Rogalinski-Pinter, Lead Software Engineer at 4.screen (an Aiven Cluster program participant).
Barcelona JUG (October 25): Courtesy of Sébastien Blanc , the Barcelona OSDI teamed up with Barcelona Java User Group (JUG). Speakers: Alex Soto, Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat, and Juarez Barbosa Junior, Senior Principal Java Developer Evangelist at Oracle. Topics were “From Monolith to (µ)Services. What happens with my Data?” and “Revolutionize Java Database App Development with Java Virtual Threads and Reactive Streams”- Asynconf (October 31) : Sébastien Blanc delivered a talk on facial recognitiom and pgvector.
- Amsterdam OSDI meetup (October 31
): Floor Drees hosted at Textkernel, with Boriss Mejias, Solution Architect at EDB, and Jelte Fennema-Nio, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft. Topics were “Relational and Post-relational Postgres for Data Application Developers” and “The future of connection pooling: PGBouncer or something else?”
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Community over Code (October 7-10, Halifax): Matthew de Detrich spoke at Community over Code (formerly ApacheCon), about “Pekko: Hard solutions to the issues of hard-forking”. Apache Pekko is is an open-source framework for building applications that are concurrent, distributed, resilient and elastic. It is a fork of the akka project, after it adopted a BSL license.
APAC
Devopsdays Bengaluru (October 20-21, Bangalore, India): Floor Drees delivered her session “Scaling your work in the open - Tech is only the tip of the iceberg”.
- We also hosted the first India Open Source Data Infrastructure Meetup, October 22, with sessions by Chintan Shah, Manas Bhardwaj and Abinasha Karana (Technology Lead) from CRED, Apoorva Aggarwal from Microsoft, and Rohil Surana, Engineering Manager at Pixxel and ex-Gojek: https://aiven.io/community/forum/t/heres-what-happened-at-the-first-india-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup/643
- Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY85SbrHF1k
- We also hosted the first India Open Source Data Infrastructure Meetup, October 22, with sessions by Chintan Shah, Manas Bhardwaj and Abinasha Karana (Technology Lead) from CRED, Apoorva Aggarwal from Microsoft, and Rohil Surana, Engineering Manager at Pixxel and ex-Gojek: https://aiven.io/community/forum/t/heres-what-happened-at-the-first-india-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup/643
Global / Virtual
- All Day DevOps (October 26-27): Floor Drees and Claude Warren, Jr both presented during the 8th annual 24 hours “ADDO”.
- Online Workshop (October 17) : Olena Kutsenko and Francesco Tisiot delivered : “Learn Apache Kafka with Python”.
- Online Workshop (October 31) : Sébastien Blanc delivered “Data Persistence 101: Spring Boot and MySQL Edition”.
Meetups & Events (Upcoming)
You’ll meet us here next. For an always up-to-date list: Worldwide conferences, meetups, webinars and events | Aiven
EMEA
Big Data Conference (November 22-24, Vilnius): Join Francesco’s session “Attacking (and defending) Apache Kafka” at Big Data Conference Europe this November, virtually, or in-person!
Real Time Data at Scale (November 28): We’re teaming up with PingCAP for a Slush co-located event. Speakers: Mattias Jonsson, Senior Database Engineer at PingCAP, Maxim Dudin, Senior Software Engineer at Bolt, and Saulo Valenzuela and Lucian Dragos, Kafka Engineers at Irori. Host: @andranuta- API Days Paris (December 6-8): Join Celeste for her session “Everything I learned about API Design I learned from the Support team”
Aiven Live London (December 12): Join Aiveners and customers for an immersive event in London, this December.
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!
AMER
AWS re:invent (November 27 - December 1): do join for one of our many sessions at AWS re:invent this year.
APAC
- @OlenaKutsenko will deliver her session “Beginners guide to balance your data across Apache Kafka partitions” at the Jakarta OSDI meetup, November 14, and the Singapore OSDI meetup, November 16.
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
Jenn, the Klaw team, and Tim Mamo from DigitalOcean talk about Hacktoberfest
(General)
- Apache Druid blog post using the fake pizza data generator
- Jenn Junod invited the Klaw team, and Tim Mamo from DigitalOcean to talk about Hacktoberfest (Klaw had triaged a number of tasks for external contributors to pick up).
Apache Kafka
- Updated Create your own data stream for Apache Kafka® with Python and Faker to include links to the tutorial on GitPod.
- Change data capture from RDS to Apache Kafka
ClickHouse®
- A new dev center article by Olena Kutsenko on how to use ClickHouse vector search with HuggingFace APIs https://aiven.io/developer/movie-recommender-clickhouse-huggingface-nextjs
PostgreSQL®
- Olena Kutsenko released a course: “TensorFlow, Postgres, PGVector & Next.js: building a movie recommender”
- Updated Use Netlify to deploy your Next.js, PostgreSQL® and Redis®* app to suggest using the “Deploy to Netlify” button as an alternative to the command line approach.