2023-11 Edition: What's Up With DevRel?


An overview of DevRel team profiles found at Aiven DevRel team: enabling success in open source data tech

:eyes: Month At-A-Glance

  • :bulb: Read about how the community is using our Aiven Kafka Tiered Storage plugin, and more in the Community Shout-outs section.
  • :calendar: We delivered talks at Events including AWS re:invent, Big Data Conference, DevFest Singapore
  • :earth_africa: Additionally, Meetups were held around the world in Berlin and Jakarta
  • :computer: Our team delivered tons of great Technical Content, in October Olena Kutsenko wrote an excellent piece about “Find your perfect movie with ClickHouse®, vector search, Hugging Face API, and Next.js” , this month SĂ©bastien Blanc made a video about the same topic!
  • :computer: We continued our online Developer Workshop program (recordings can be found on YouTube)

:two_hearts: Community Highlights


So many community friends joining our AWS re:invent livestream (w/ Christina Warren, GitHub)

:mega: Community Shout-Outs


:calendar: 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!

AWS re:invent

:earth_africa: EMEA

:earth_americas: AMER

:earth_asia: APAC


:computer: Technical Content

This section covers new technical content published on Aiven’s…

:mega: Blog: thought-leadership pieces, announcements

:wrench: Developer Center: tutorials, example code

:tv: YouTube: how-tos, conference talks, meetup recordings, livestreams

For upcoming workshops checkout out the Developer Workshops page (January workshops will start to appear soon!).


A particularly dramatic still from Sebastien’s latest video “Find your perfect movie with ClickHouse®, vector search, Hugging Face API, and Next.js”

:rocket: (General)

:ant: Apache Kafka

:house: ClickHouse®

:mag: OpenSearch

:tv: Developer workshop: Search and aggregations made easy with OpenSearch and NodeJS