January 2021 Summaries

Ancient corporate data architectures may not support modern business goals. Modernize your data environment now by rebuilding old data architecture into a flexible, extendable, collaborative, resilient, and secure one. Start with the needs of users and build back towards the data sources. Consider using managed open-source cloud-based database services for better security and ease of maintenance.

Aiven has released support for Apache Kafka version 2.7, which includes security updates and performance improvements. Key enhancements include PEM support, connection creation rate limiting, quota throttling for create topic, create partition, and delete topic operations, sliding window aggregations in the DSL, and getting rid of ZooKeeper dependencies. Users can either launch a new cluster or upgrade to the latest version.

Aiven commits to a 99.99% uptime, ensuring that customers' systems stay up by using the output from availability checks to trigger automatic recovery actions. If these actions fail, an on-call ops team member is alerted to investigate and resolve the issue. The company also compensates customers for any downtime under their responsibility. Aiven proactively detects and heals issues before they cause services to fail, including those outside of their SLA such as cloud provider outages. They provide a status page where customers can find current and historical system performance information. Their highly rated customer service helps troubleshoot issues and prevent future problems.

This article discusses the benefits of using public cloud services over traditional on-premises setups, especially for companies with less specialized data system needs. The advantages include lower total cost of ownership, only paying for what you use, easy setup and maintenance, better security, global access out of the box, and more. Public cloud services also offer flexibility in scaling up or down, responding to changing business needs, and adopting new features quickly. By subscribing to a public cloud service, companies can reach their business goals faster with more flexibility and lower risk.