September 2023 Summaries

Aiven, an open-source data technology management platform, has been recognized as a leader in Event Stream Processing by G2, a peer-to-peer software review website. The company's operational excellence and industry-leading technical expertise have earned it the Enterprise High Performer badge. Customers appreciate Aiven for its flexibility, control, and ease of use, which enable them to focus on innovation and creating exceptional products. The platform is designed to help businesses solve problems more easily, foster innovation, and create data applications with confidence.

Aiven for Grafana® has been upgraded to Grafana® 10, offering improved customization and contextualization of data. The latest version includes the canvas panel for creating dynamic visualizations, time region support for defining specific time ranges as annotations, a streamlined data source picker, and updates to Azure Monitor data source with support for Application Insights Traces. Existing Aiven for Grafana instances will be automatically upgraded during the next scheduled maintenance window, while customers can apply the update manually via their Aiven console.

Bonsai, an e-commerce platform, has turned to Aiven for an automated, event-driven data architecture on Google Cloud using Aiven's managed services. The company faced challenges with expanding its product catalog from a couple of thousand products to millions of products receiving constant updates. By leveraging Kafka and the MongoDB connector through Aiven, Bonsai has improved its data processing capabilities and tackled technical debt in its application ecosystem.

This tutorial guides developers through deploying a JAMstack web application on Netlify with data services provided by Aiven. It follows Alex, a front-end developer, as she learns to integrate her Next.js applications with MySQL and Redis databases. The process involves setting up the development environment, pushing code to GitHub, and deploying the application on Netlify. By following this tutorial, developers can create robust, secure, and scalable web applications that seamlessly communicate with production-grade databases.

Arif Rakham, Technical Lead and Senior Software Engineer at eFishery, shares insights into his career path and how he's built a creative tech team to help transform Indonesian aquaculture. eFishery is a fast-growing, tech-enabled unicorn with a mission to build a sustainable, integrated value chain for Indonesia’s shrimp- and fish-farming businesses — and so strengthen global food security. Arif's team uses Aiven to manage PostgreSQL and Apache Kafka on its behalf, allowing them to focus on developing the applications that eFishery needs. With a big imagination and a thirst for original thinking, Arif is always on the lookout for disruptive technologies to spark new ideas.

Aiven for OpenSearch® introduces advanced security features including single sign-on (SSO) authentication, role-based access control, audit logging, and multi-tenant Dashboards. These enhancements provide a robust security framework for controlling user access, enforcing policies, and monitoring resource usage. The new features are particularly beneficial to organizations with centralized identity management or regulatory responsibilities. OpenSearch Security is an opt-in feature that existing Aiven for OpenSearch® customers can enable without any configuration changes.

The Aiven Platform has introduced centralized organization units, users, and groups for efficient user management. This feature streamlines the process of managing users and their access to projects and services on the platform, making it easier to scale setups and gain visibility into users' permissions across organizations. Organizational units are now generally available, allowing users to refine the hierarchy of projects and services. The new groups feature replaces the old teams concept, providing an efficient way to control user access to organizational units, projects, and services.

Shu Toh joined Aiven as Senior Field Marketing Manager on Valentine's Day 2022. She attributes her success to her parents who instilled the importance of kindness, contentment and positivity in life. Shu maintains a healthy lifestyle through regular exercise and has found fulfillment at Aiven where she works with the APAC Regional Marketing team on various field campaigns and digital activities. In 2023, Shu was recognized twice for her exceptional work, receiving the Openness award during the January quarterly business review meeting and the Antennae award during Crab Week in Portugal. She enjoys Aiven's open culture that encourages sharing ideas and fosters collaboration among team members.