In my last blog post I announced our Series C funding round and wrote about the future I saw for Aiven. Although it was only seven months ago, a lot has happened since then. We have roughly doubled our revenue run rate. We’ve grown our team from 140 to over…

Dear all, We’ve been working through a couple of security issues this month already here at Aiven and like many security teams, we’re feeling a little run down and thought you could all use an update on what we’ve been doing about these issues. Both of these issues represent some…

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform, and it’s open source. Today’s post isn’t about the cool things you can do with it. This time we talk about Kafka’s internals. Specifically, we discuss one of the latest tasks being done at Aiven’s Open Source Program Office: migration of Apache…

What is Aiven Cluster? The Aiven Cluster Startup Program offers fast-growing startups free credits worth up to US$100,000 to be used over 12 months. You can use it to build up a modern data infrastructure in the cloud without any management headaches. For example, you can spin up a single database like PostgreSQL or…

We’re happy to announce that Aiven services now support AWS PrivateLink for secure network connectivity. This new capability is an addition to the previously supported VPC peering and AWS Transit Gateway options as we continue to strengthen our customers’ ability to securely connect cloud and on-premise applications in their environments. …

Our mission at Aiven is to make developers’ lives better. Today I’d like to share our new tool that makes Laravel developers’ lives better by adding some helpful functionality to their projects. Laravel is the most popular PHP framework in use today, and is usually backed by either MySQL or…

At Aiven, we’re frankly pretty proud of how we make life easier for DBAs and application developers. They really appreciate our quick and hassle-free services that allow them to store and process data in the cloud. …

Being part of a community is what humans are largely designed for. People cluster up. We support each other and provide companionship by coexisting in shared spaces. The fact that today these spaces are increasingly virtual, online and asynchronous does not change the foundational workings of human groups. But no…

Replicating data in your Apache Kafka? Good idea! Read the top 5 reasons why. MirrorMaker 2.0 is a robust data replication utility for Apache Kafka. It acts as a consumer and producer for multiple Kafka clusters, so that users can easily and reliably copy data from one cluster to another…