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Build The Future: Building a Startup Inside a Scaleup

Sep 30, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
TL;DR Stan's experience ranges from raising millions for his own startups to working across programming, marketing, and PR. Here is how that versatile founder mindset fuels his Product Director role at Aiven today. Stan has had a lot of ownership from day one, in the most literal sense. Aiven headhunted him to build a new product from the ground up. "My onboarding was thirty minutes with my boss, who gave me a handful of really good and original ideas, he says. "After that, I had to figure it out.
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Bring Your Own Key: Encryption sovereignty without the headache

Sep 30, 2026 By Dirk Krautschick | In Aiven
Let's start with an uncomfortable question that tends to surface exactly once, usually in front of an auditor, a customer's security team, or your own CISO: who can actually decrypt your data right now? For most managed databases and message queues, the honest answer is "the provider, technically, if they really wanted to." That's not a scandal. It's just how managed encryption-at-rest normally works: the provider generates the key, holds the key, rotates the key, and you trust them not to misuse it.
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Right-size your analytics stack with Aiven for ClickHouse

Sep 30, 2026 By Tony Piazza | In Aiven
TL;DR If most of your Snowflake or Databricks spend goes to dashboards and reports, you are paying for a platform built for much bigger problems. Aiven for ClickHouse runs those workloads on a fixed plan, so adding dashboard users does not add to your compute bill. Native integrations with PostgreSQL and Apache Kafka also replace most of the ingestion and orchestration tools around your current platform. Move one dashboard at a time, and keep Snowflake or Databricks for work such as model training.
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Valkey Observability with BetterDB on Aiven Runtime - Kristiyan Ivanov

Sep 30, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
My interview guest is Kristiyan Ivanov creator of BetterDB. In this conversation we talk about building tools to observe Valkey and Redis as well as AI Observability, the Valkey Community and More! Learn more about AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.
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Opensearch, AI, and a Grab-bag of topics with Jay Miller and Dima Kan

Sep 30, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
Fireside chat between Jay Miller, Developer Advocate at Aiven and Dima Kan, Staff Product Manager for OpenSearch about the role of search in AI. AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.
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Never lose quorum in Apache Kafka - and what to do when you do

Sep 29, 2026 By Anton Agestam | In Aiven
Apache Kafka's documentation and operational lore for KRaft are clear on one point: you shall never lose controller quorum. It is good advice, because a Raft quorum that can no longer elect a leader cannot commit metadata, and a Kafka cluster without a functioning controller cannot create topics, change ACLs, elect partition leaders, or otherwise make progress on its control plane.
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Manage Context with Aiven DataHub

Sep 29, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
Aiven DataHub is a managed data catalog that helps you and your agents find, understand and reason on top of your data in data sources like PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka or BI Tools. In this video Stan dives into Aiven DataHub and shows how to set it up so context is derived from metadata, or the lineage between services. He also dives into examples on how to get deeper insights about your data through prompting Aiven DataHub.
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How to Build an App on Base44 with a Production-Ready Aiven Database

Sep 25, 2026 By Yonatan Dvir | In Aiven
Base44 is fast at the part that used to take a week. Describe an application, and you have a working interface in minutes. Base44's built-in Cloud backend, enabled by default, is a reasonable place to start. But it doesn't put your data in an account you already own, in the cloud and region you picked, next to the rest of your data platform. That's the gap this post closes.
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Know Your data, Trust Your AI: Aiven DataHub is now GA

Sep 23, 2026 By Stan Dmitriev | In Aiven
Ask a simple question "who are our most profitable customers?" and things fall apart. The data lives in six systems, nobody agrees which table is canonical, the column called profit is actually revenue, and the business rules that matter live in someone's head or a Confluence page nobody's touched since 2023. Now point an AI agent at that same mess.
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Deploy Your Apps and Agents Where Your Data Lives With Aiven Runtime

Sep 23, 2026 By Cara Baestlein | In Aiven
Everything that makes an app or agent real happens after it works on your machine. Locally coding an app is a joy: hot reload, a seeded database, a mocked API key. Then you go to ship it, and "deploy" quietly expands into a Dockerfile that behaves in CI, somewhere to actually run the container, a database it can reach, TLS, secrets wired into the environment, and a pipeline to hold it all together. The feature took an afternoon. The plumbing takes the rest of the week.
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Let Builders Build, and Agents Cook.

Sep 23, 2026 By Alex Mercer | In Aiven
Software used to be built by engineers. Not any more. Low-code tools brought in domain teams. AI copilots brought in everyone else. And now agents are building and acting alongside humans; marketing, finance, HR and legal are all shipping the apps they used to file tickets for. The number of people (and things) building on your data has exploded, and it isn't slowing down. And there's no single, standardized way to build, there likely never will be.
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Your users already know what's relevant. Are you listening?

Sep 23, 2026 By Dima Kan | In Aiven
TL;DR If you work on search relevance, you know the feeling. You ship a synonym. You boost a field. You add a vector model. You stare at a judgment set that was labeled six months ago and hope the next NDCG number moves in the right direction. Somewhere between offline metrics and production traffic, a quiet gap opens: you optimized for what you think users want, not for what they actually do when the results appear. That gap is not a failure of effort. It is a missing feedback loop.
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Diskless Topics on Aiven for Apache Kafka

Sep 22, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
Diskless moves Kafka replication into object storage, removing cross-AZ fees. See how diskless topics work, then create one live on Aiven for Apache Kafka. AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.
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Build The Future: Leading Through Change

Sep 2, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
TL;DR Katja Rantala thought her dream job involved international relations and diplomacy. Turns out leading people and companies through change is what she was meant to do. “Some days everything is on fire and it's a catastrophe. The important question is whether the big picture moved.” That is Katja Rantala's description of what it is like to work in an environment that keeps changing shape.
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