March 2021 Summaries

The text discusses the use of Aiven's API, which is an HTTP API with token authentication and JSON-formatted data. It provides a step-by-step guide on how to access the API, including obtaining an auth token, using cURL for terminal commands, and utilizing Postman for GUI applications. The text also demonstrates how to create Aiven services from the API. Additionally, it mentions other resources available such as the Aiven API reference, command line tool, and Terraform provider.

This tutorial demonstrates how to use Apache Kafka Connect to update an old app-to-db design, making it more efficient by incorporating up-to-date tech tools without disrupting the original solution. The example provided uses the Kafka Connect JDBC Connector to source data from an existing table in PostgreSQL and populate a Kafka topic with only the changed rows. This approach is beneficial for many use cases, but when additional query load on the source system is not allowed, change data capture solutions like Debezium can be used instead. The tutorial guides users through creating a PostgreSQL database to act as backend data storage and then adding a Kafka cluster with Kafka Connect. It also provides an example of the Kafka Connect JDBC Source based on a PostgreSQL database.

Oskari Saarenmaa, CEO of Aiven, shares the story of how his company has grown from a startup to a global enterprise with over 140 employees and a valuation of more than $800 million since its inception in 2017. He discusses his journey as a self-taught programmer and his experiences with open source software, which led him to co-found Aiven. The company's mission is to create simple solutions for complex problems, automate everything, and hire the best people. With its recent Series C funding round, Aiven plans to increase its contributions to open source projects and communities while continuing to grow and innovate in the cloud data platform space.

The text discusses the importance of disaster recovery planning for data storage systems, emphasizing the need to balance redundancy and resiliency. It highlights Aiven's features that provide multiple tiers of systems with varying levels of redundancy and resiliency. The article also provides tips on how users can ensure system-level redundancy, distribute HA plans securely, and set up read replicas and mirrored copies for their data storage systems. Additionally, it mentions the Shared Responsibility Model of Cloud Computing in disaster recovery planning and encourages readers to explore Aiven's services further.

The article discusses the difference between public and private clouds in cloud computing, as well as virtual private clouds (VPCs). A public cloud is a service made publicly available by the company providing it, while a private cloud is created by a company for its own use. VPCs are a pool of resources that live inside a public cloud, isolated from all other VPCs and reserved for one single organization. The article also mentions managed cloud services as an option for most companies.