December 2022 Summaries

The text discusses the role of a software architect in making decisions about event streaming solutions. It emphasizes that an event streaming platform is any infrastructure or technology that event-driven apps run on or integrate with, to provide data updates at short intervals. The post highlights the importance of understanding the risks and factors involved in choosing an event streaming solution and how a software architect's job is to ask more questions than they have answers for. It also covers topics such as thinking about downtime, team impact, integrations, tooling, open source, total cost of ownership, and other perspectives that impact team efficiency. The text concludes by encouraging readers to take the first step today in exploring managed data infrastructure options.

DevRelCon Prague 2022 focused on the importance of growing healthy communities and driving value for businesses during a downturn. The event highlighted the role of Developer Relations in aligning with other business units, such as Sales, Product Engineering, and Customer Success, to create value-driven company cultures. Measuring DevRel's impact through metrics like growing member numbers, reduced answering times, or accelerated pipeline was emphasized. Additionally, building bridges between DevRel and Sales can lead to faster Go-To-Market strategies. The event also discussed the role of Product Led Growth (PLG) in DevRel and how focusing on fundamentals during economic downturns is crucial for success.

Aiven has announced the general availability of its fully managed data warehouse service, Aiven for ClickHouse®, which is designed to run analytics pipelines and other workloads. The service offers a 99.99% availability SLA and supports production use. It is built on ClickHouse®, an open-source software that allows users to derive analytical insights in near real-time using advanced SQL queries. Aiven for ClickHouse is supported by Aiven's cloud management platform, which provides reliable operations, easy analytics pipelines, no provider lock-in, security and compliance features, DevOps friendliness, and easy observability. The service is immediately available on major cloud platforms with pricing starting from $0.26027/h ($190/month).

The SOFT methodology is an approach to designing future-proof and effective data platforms based on four pillars: scalable, observable, fast, and trustworthy. Scalability involves handling variability in load volumes, use-cases, development platforms, and cost. Observability includes monitoring service options and discovering data assets. Speed refers to the time taken for data delivery, pipeline development, and recovery from problems. Trustworthiness encompasses security, auditable results, and consistency. The methodology helps data architects and decision makers evaluate current implementations and future architectures across these criteria.

Aiven introduces a complete ecosystem of technologies and tools around Apache Kafka, aiming to offer an end-to-end open source based solution that can fit the data streaming needs and workloads of any organization. The company's vision is to support organizations in each stage of their Apache Kafka journey, from setting up clusters to building an end-to-end platform service team around Apache Kafka. Aiven's ecosystem includes services such as Aiven for Apache Kafka, Aiven for Apache Kafka Connect, Aiven for Apache Kafka MirrorMaker2, Karapace, and Aiven for Apache Flink. The company is committed to open source technologies and values the active communities that support them.

Lyyti is transforming the event management space by utilizing data to improve event planning and organization. The company offers an event management suite that includes registration management, communication tools, and event platform connectors. Additionally, they provide a measurement suite and integrations with analysis and marketing tools, allowing customers to analyze attendance numbers and identify trends and correlations. Lyyti's tech stack is built on Aiven for PostgreSQL®, PHP, Laravel, Terraform, Ansible®, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The company aims to make event management more data-driven and provide analysis and forecasting tools to help customers gauge the impact of their events.