| Aiven monthly update 2023-16-03 | | | | | 3 juicy customer stories to make your data cravings go wild | | | Hi,
In this edition, we’re excited to share with you three customer stories that are the cherry on top of our data sundae - they'll give you a taste of the sweet success our users have experienced after moving their data to the cloud
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We'll also be diving into our cookbook with the most common Terraform setups, giving you expert insights and tips to make the most out of this powerful tool. You won't be terra-fied of Terraform anymore!
And if that wasn't enough, you can dive into our tutorial for building a streaming anomaly detection system with Flink, Kafka, and PostgreSQL. Let’s get into it! | | |  Multicloud drifting, with Dups and Supermetrics
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For Supermetrics’ Chief Technology Officer Duleepa "Dups" Wijayawardhana, mobility across clouds is a dream. A dream that is turning into a reality! ✨
Asked what his favorite thing about Aiven is, Dups doesn’t hesitate. “The fact that it’s built on open source. Aiven’s built some amazing technology on top of open source databases to move them around in different clouds in different regions.”
Watch this video or read the full story to see how Aiven has helped Supermetrics channel their data across the clouds! ☁️ | |  A healthy infrastructure and a stable pipeline for
Priceline
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Priceline, part of Booking Holdings, is a global provider of online travel,
distributing its streaming architecture globally with Aiven on Google Cloud.
Priceline chose to partner with Aiven to provide a fully managed and hosted Apache Kafka solution in the cloud, allowing them to gain valuable insights from real-time data and make data-driven decisions more efficiently.
"With Aiven, we now have the flexibility to enormously scale to accept new data and new users and ingest everything into the analytics layer," says Sachin Menon, Senior Director of Data. | | Digital Asset Research Boosts Resiliency and Reduces Downtime with Aiven
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Digital Asset Research is a high-growth startup setting new standards for digital asset data transparency and quality. DAR handles huge volumes of data in real time, 24/7. It cannot afford downtime.
The company was experiencing outages with its former Kafka platform, so it moved to Aiven for
Apache Kafka®. DAR now has a highly resilient, scalable streaming data infrastructure helping to ensure the smooth delivery of its services as it continues to grow.
“It was so easy, we decided to move our entire Kafka infrastructure to Aiven. Within three hours we were completely in production — without talking to anybody at Aiven. It was astonishing!” says Michael Zimberg, Chief Technology Officer. | | |  Tutorial: Streaming anomaly detection with Apache Flink®, Apache Kafka® and PostgreSQL®
Anomaly detection is a way to find unusual or unexpected things in data. It is immensely helpful in a variety of fields, such as fraud detection, network security, quality control and others. By following this
tutorial, you will build your own streaming anomaly detection system. In particular, we’ll cover the following: - How to create a fake streaming dataset
- How to create and use Apache Kafka for data streaming
- How to create and use PostgreSQL to store threshold data
- How to create and
use Apache Flink to define streaming data pipelines
- How to push the outcome of the anomaly detection system as a Slack notification
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 Aiven Terraform Cookbook
Are you using Terraform to manage data infrastructure?
We’ve put together some of the most common Terraform setups with sample code:
⭐ Apache Kafka®️ and OpenSearch®️ - take data from Kafka and ingest it into OpenSearch using Apache Kafka Connect.
⭐ Multicloud PostgreSQL®️ - learn how to deploy PostgreSQL services across different cloud providers and across geographies
using Aiven Terraform Provider. You will also learn the benefits of using termination protection functionality to prevent accidental deletion of your cloud resources. Follow this recipe with Dewan Ahmed on video!
⭐ Apache Kafka®️ and Apache MirrorMaker - replicate your data across Kafka clusters for disaster recovery, isolating data for compliance reasons, and more!
Check out Aiven Terraform cookbook and use our “recipes” to cook up resilient data infrastructure. | | |
Aiven’s Open Source Office keeps contributing and giving back to the open source community - look at what they’ve been up to in the past month:
- First things first, our Senior Software Engineer Sergey Nuyanzin is now a Flink committer. Congrats Sergey!
- We hosted an OpenSearch® fireside chat with BigData Boutique! Watch the recording to get some tips for maintaining Open Search clusters in production. You’ll hear the most common use cases and features of OpenSearch®, including live questions from the audience.
- Prometheus exporter plugin 2.5.0.0 has been released!
- Claude Warren, our Senior Software Engineer, talked at FOSDEM about Cultural Relativism: a Prism for Constructing Cross-Cultural Communities. Check out the recording!
- Francesco Tisiot and Andriy Redko wrote an article about Apache Flink Connector for OpenSearch. Have a read if you want to understand how the Apache Flink Connector for OpenSearch bridges both projects by enabling you to push the outcome of data transformations directly to an OpenSearch index.
- Want to stay on top of Aiven's latest product updates? Follow our changelog.
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