❓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 Europython and FOSSY 2023.
- 🌍 Additionally, Meetups were held around the world in Berlin, Amsterdam, Jakarta and New York.
- 💻 Our team delivered tons of great Technical Content, like on OPA (Open Policy Agent) and much more!
💕 Community Shout-Outs
- Mattias Jonsson, a senior database engineer from PingCAP gave an introduction into an open source distributed SQL database TiDB, at the July Berlin Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup.
- The July Paris OSDI meetup was hosted by our friends at Scaleway.
- At the July NYC OSDI meetup, @brooke_jamieson, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS spoke about vector databases.
💻 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)
- 📣 @dewanahmed authored a blog: Enforce fine-grained policy control across your data infrastructure with Open Policy Agent and Terraform.
- 📺 The video for the OSDI meetup in Paris hosted at Scaleway is now live. The topic discussed was database testing through simulation.
🐜 Apache Kafka
- 📺 The video for the Milan Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup on scaling machine learning and GitOps for Kafka, is now live.
🏠 ClickHouse®
- 📺The video recording of the Amsterdam Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup with ClickHouse CTO Alexey Milovidov and our @olena_kutsenko is available for on-demand viewing.
🐬 MySQL
- 📣 Scale up: a MySQL bug story, or why Aiven works - by Celeste Horgan & Leon Bezuidenhout
- 📺 Getting started with SQL series - by @jennjunod
🐘 PostgreSQL®
- 📺 Creating Databases, Schemas, and Tables on pgAdmin - by Jenn Junod
- 📺 Connecting PostgreSQL to pgAdmin - by Jenn Junod
🏗 Terraform
- 💬 Terraform provider v4.8.0 is out - Google’s Private Service Connect (PSC) is now supported in Aiven’s Provider for Terraform.
📆 Meetups & Events
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 livestreams, and more!
🌍 EMEA
- 🇪🇺 Europython (Prague): Tony Ibbs talked about "Fish and chips and Apache Kafka®" to a full room. The slides and demo code can be found at Aiven Labs, updated with a link to the video recording soon.
- 🇩🇪 Berlin OSDI Meetup: @olena_kutsenko spoke about how to in Apache Kafka correctly distribute data across partitions and prevent unbalanced partitions. Mattias Jonsson, a senior database engineer from PingCAP gave an introduction into an open source distributed SQL database TiDB. The recording's up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t-dvQb_uzc View an event recap at: https://aiven.io/community/forum/t/summer-edition-of-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup-in-berlin/370
🌎 AMER
- 🇺🇸 FOSSY 2023 (Portland, OR): Angie Byron spoke on Lessons Learned From Scaling An Open Source Community By 10,000%. This was the inaugural year of the conference, organized by the Software Freedom Conservancy.
- Session Recording: (forthcoming; here are the slides)
- 🇺🇸 NYC OSDI Meetup (July 27): run by Jenn Junod, with Brooke Jamieson, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS speaking about vector databases, following AWS Summit.
🌏 APAC
- 🇮🇩 Jakarta OSDI Meetup: Aiven's Budi Kusuma Utama ran the meetup, July 27, 37 people showed up and we're asking about when the next event would take place!
📆 Meetups & Events (Upcoming)
Here are the events you will find us at next: https://aiven.io/events.
🌍 EMEA
- 🇳🇴 Javazone (September 6-7, Oslo): Make sure you join Olena Kutsenko for her talk “ClickHouse: what is behind the fastest columnar database?”
- 🇬🇧 DevRelCon London (September 7-8): @ugbot will talk about improving the visibility and buy-in of DevRel work, and @floord will lead the Unconference.
- 🥨 AWS Community Day DACH (September 13): Meet the AWS community, and join Olena Kutsenko for her talk “Using OpenSearch and Apache Kafka to explore Mastodon”.
- 🇩🇪 Containerdays Hamburg (September 11-12): Floor Drees will be one of the room hosts for Containerdays Hamburg.
🌎 AMER
- 🇺🇸 Devopsdays Chicago (August 9-10): Dewan Ahmed will run a workshop titled “Enforce fine-grained policy control across development and production environments”. Join the Chicago Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup in August, at Discover, for an evening full of inspiring conversations and exciting talks.
- 🇺🇸 Google Cloud Next (August 29 - 31): Ben Gamble and Ian Massingham, among a much larger Aiven delegation, will join Google Cloud Next - which we joined as a Velocity sponsor.
- 🇺🇸 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: Current.
- 🇺🇸 OpenSearchCon (September 27-29, Seattle): Join Jonah Kowall at OpenSearchCon for his session “18 months of operating OpenSearch at scale”.
🌏 APAC
- 🇸🇬 OSDI Singapore (August 2): Join the Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup at Google Asia Pacific, for talks by Bhanu Jamwal (PingCap) and Kaijun Xu (Google Cloud).
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