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2023-07 Edition: What’s Up With DevRel @ Aiven?

❓Who are we and what do we do?

The Developer Relations team at Aiven

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


💻 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

ClickHouse CTO Alexey Milovidov at the Amsterdam meetup

🚀 (General)

🐜 Apache Kafka

🏠 ClickHouse®

🐬 MySQL

🐘 PostgreSQL®

🏗 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!

Jenn at the NYC OSDI meetup

🌍 EMEA

Matty Stratton at AWS Summit

🌎 AMER

🌏 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!

The July Jakarta Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup


📆 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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