March 13 we hosted the Open Source Data Infrastructure (OSDI for short) meetup at the 4screen offices in Munich.
Calum Muir, Solution Architect at Aiven & Paul Rogalinski-Pinter, Lead Software Engineer at 4screen, kickstarted the meetup. They then gave the virtual floor to Ahmed Sobeh, Engineering Manager at Aiven. Ahmed couldn’t be there in person because he was in sporting related accident 
In Your OSPO is not only Yours: Working on 3rd Party OSS, Ahmed talked about the Open Source Program Office team at Aiven, which is “a bit different”. The mission of Aiven’s OSPO is to ensure the sustainability of external OSS projects.
Many organizations give financial support to OSS communities and that’s a great starting point, but communities are about people more than about money. To that end Aiven has folks on the payroll to contribute directly to the upstream project we offer on our platform: Kafka, Apache Cassandra, OpenSearch…
How Aiven measures success and hires for roles like these, is in his slides.
In How a Bot and PGBouncer has helped us to manage users on Aiven for PostgreSQL, Patrick Gebhardt, Expert DevOps Engineer at Conrad, talked about how Conrad became king of its user-management castle in Aiven for PostgreSQL. He showed how they’ve set up PGBouncer and the Aiven-Bot Service for their use case, demo et al. We’ll actually record this session shortly, so stay tuned for that.
In the mean time, Patrick’s slides are available here.
For future meetups in Munich, join: Munich Open Source Data Infrastructure Meetup | Meetup
Pictures by Michael Hettich.