Stop Choosing Tech Just Because It's Popular
Giannis Polyzos joins Hugh Evans to challenge the idea of choosing technology based on popularity.
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Log Management for your Homelab with Fluentd and Aiven for PostgreSQL
Tired of not knowing why your home lab containers are crashing? In this video, we’ll walk through how to set up a consolidated logging pipeline using Aiven for PostgreSQL (with TimescaleDB), Fluentd and Grafana — all running on my upgraded Mac Mini home lab. The key insight: never keep your troubleshooting tools on the same machine that's giving you problems!
Get Kafka-Nated S2E2: Viktor Kessler on Apache Iceberg, OSS, and Community
In this episode, we sit down with Viktor Kessler, co-founder of Vakamo, major contributor to Lakekeeper, and organiser of Apache Iceberg Meetup Europe, to explore the evolving world of Apache Iceberg. From architectural deep dives to open-source governance, Viktor shares insights from building an Iceberg REST catalog in Rust, launching a company around open data governance and growing the European Iceberg community from Dublin to Vilnius.
New high availability architecture for Aiven for PostgreSQL in limited availability
At Aiven, we use and contribute to open source to build our managed data platform. In the early days of Aiven for PostgreSQL, robust cloud-native tools for high availability and streaming backups did not exist at the level we needed. So we built our own. We created pglookout to monitor replication and handle failovers, and we built pghoard for backup and restore using object storage. These tools served us and thousands of our customers well for years. But the open-source PostgreSQL ecosystem has grown.
Elephant in the Room, Episode 4: Protecting Customer Data with PostgreSQL Anonymizer & Django
In Episode 4 of Elephant in the Room, we tackle a question many teams struggle with: how do you protect sensitive customer data from your own developers while still running and improving your web application? Join Jay Miller (Aiven) and Tim Schilling of Djangonaut Space as they explore a real-world privacy challenge. Djangonaut Space’s application process requires collecting personal information from applicants, but reviewers and contributors should not have access to identifying details. The goal: enable fair review and active development without exposing sensitive data.
Is Paimon just Iceberg on steroids?
Giannis Polyzos sits down with Hugh Evans to discuss whether Paimon is really just Iceberg, only better.
Elephant in the Room, Episode 2: Working with Feature Flags, Read Replicas, and Postgres Analytics
Welcome to Elephant in the Room – presented by Aiven, the live series where we explore the real-world challenges developers face when working with PostgreSQL, the database that everyone depends on but few fully leverage. In Episode 2, Jay Miller, Staff Product Advocate at Aiven, is joined by Alexis Roberson, Senior Developer Educator and feature flag enthusiast, to break down how feature flags help teams ship faster, reduce risk and improve user experiences in PostgreSQL-backed applications.
Is 'Batch Good Enough'? Check Your User Experience
Giannis Polyzos chats with Hugh Evans about whether batch data processing is truly “good enough".
Get Kafka-Nated S2E1: Giannis Polyzos on Fluss, Lakehouse, and the Future of Streaming
Season 2 of Get Kafka-Nated kicks off with Giannis Polyzos, member of the Fluss PMC, for a deep dive into one of data infrastructure’s longest-running debates: streaming vs. batch, or both? What we’ll cover: Timestamps: Useful links.
Free Tier Kafka Competition: The Winners
After reviewing all the submissions, we realised we could not have chosen just one winner. When we launched Aiven's Free Tier Kafka competition with a $5,000 prize pool, we wanted to see what the community could build. What we got back was incredible: genuine creativity, technical depth, and projects that are truly inspiring to the Apache Kafka community. After reviewing all the submissions, we realized we could not have chosen just one winner.