| Aiven monthly update 2023-07-02 | | | | | February is short, read fast | | | Hi,
Well, what can we say about the January-February period? There’s been a lot happening, most of it exciting, some of it challenging … how have you been?
I mean, there’s not really any way for you to answer that (although you can always feel
free to drop us a reply!), so let’s get on with it. We have a lot of ground to cover! | | |  Aiven brings PostgreSQL® version
15
(1 min read)
After only a three-month gap since its October release, we’re delighted to bring PostgreSQL® 15 to Aiven. The new version comes with a wealth of new capabilities and performance enhancements that make managing workloads in local and distributed environments more efficient, and provide a better developer experience.
Find out what the key improvements are and how you can get the new version.
And if you're curious to learn more about our recent product updates, take a look at our changelog. | |  Decoupling systems to scale for growth: The experience of Simplilearn
Concerned about system outages affecting your customer experience? Decoupling is a smart path to stable scalability. But what does that look like in practice?
In
this session with Aiven customer Simplilearn - one of the world’s leading certification training providers - we’ll be
exploring: - How to reduce the amount of manual work, standardize processes and scale for growth
- How to design a solution that puts the users (customers, staff, partners, etc.) at the heart of the
system
- How a managed vendor like Aiven can help along the way
Sign up for our webinar below to find out more! 👇
📅 March 15
🕕 16:00 SGT / 13:30 IST / 10:00 EEST. | | Apache Kafka® for tech leaders
What is Apache Kafka? Why are people talking about it, and what does it do for modern companies on the rise? What’s the big deal?
Our new ebook lays it all out - the basics, the benefits, and the next steps for a tech leader on the lookout for a better approach to data. Check it out, and pull into the fast lane! | | | | |
 Why you should offload your PostgreSQL analytical workloads to ClickHouse
(7 min read)
Many companies are still using a general-purpose
database for every project. If you already have a lot of expertise in that database, why would you use something else?
The answer is performance.
When it comes to query performance, a general RDBM doesn't stand a chance.
We’re going to demonstrate this with our new Aiven for ClickHouse® database. And not just with some standard benchmarking tools - we’ll test drive it with some real world data, something that can answer real questions that businesses might be interested in. | |  (Re)Create Apache Kafka® topics with Terraform
(4 min read)
One of the joys of cloud data
platforms is the ability to quickly and easily create and configure services.We often find ourselves working on more than one project at a time, so by using Terraform to create/recreate the setup, we can swiftly get going again when we return to the task.
Lorna has recently been working with Apache Kafka® quite a bit, using Terraform to recreate the topics that the application uses, and she shares her approach in this post. |
| Webhook data from Apache Kafka®️ to the world
(5 min read)
One of the best Kafka connectors available is the HTTP sink connector because it's so
adaptable.
Today we'll use an HTTP Connector to send the data from a Kafka topic to any HTTP endpoint, giving you an easy way to integrate your data with your own code or any platform that supports webhooks.
This lets you send your data to places that might not have a prebuilt connector! | | | Another month, another heartfelt and clear-eyed commitment to openness. What have
we seen and done in the big wide world of open source this month? - Our Open Source Engineering Director, Josep Prat, has been invited by the Apache Kafka project to become a new Kafka committer! 🎉We're proud to support the open source community and the Apache Kafka open source project. Congratulations to Josep!
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- Our Senior Software Engineer, Michael Hoffmann, is now a maintainer of Perkeep. Perkeep is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing, and synchronizing data in the post-PC era.
- The new version of Klaw 1.2.0 has been released! Klaw, the latest OS tool by Aiven, helps enterprises cope with Apache Kafka topics, schema registry, and connectors governance by introducing roles/authorizations to users of various teams.
- Lukáš Vlček, our staff Software Engineer, has a demo OpenSearch plugin that adds an endpoint so everyone can inspect the available analyzers, tokenizers, token filters, and the list goes on. Check it out here and leave some
feedback!
| | |  Worth a look
But wait, there’s more! What else has been going on as we launch ourselves enthusiastically, face-first into 2023? If you’re curious, take a look at some of these:
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