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

Team Aiven — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 18:56:50 +0000

❓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).

DEV Community: Team Aiven

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

❓Who are we and what do we do?

👀 Month At-A-Glance

💕 Community Shout-Outs

💻 Technical Content

🚀 (General)

🐜 Apache Kafka

🏠 ClickHouse®

🐬 MySQL

🐘 PostgreSQL®

🏗 Terraform

📆 Meetups & Events

🌍 EMEA

🌎 AMER

🌏 APAC

📆 Meetups & Events (Upcoming)

🌍 EMEA

🌎 AMER

🌏 APAC