February 2024 Summaries

Aiven's inaugural Customer Champion awards recognized GLOBO, Avaya, Priceline and Sway AI for their remarkable achievements in innovation, excellence and global impact. These companies were awarded for using technology to drive positive change in the world, transforming businesses, delivering exceptional customer experiences, and making AI accessible to all. Aiven's data platform has played a significant role in helping these companies achieve their goals and create amazing experiences for their customers.

Lili, a single platform for managing business finances, was established in 2019 by Co-Founder and CTO Liran Zelkha and Co-Founder and CEO Lilac Bar David. The platform offers US customers banking, accounting, and tax software on one platform, allowing small business owners to handle their own bookkeeping without the help of an accountant. To optimize its databases and preempt performance issues, Lili uses EverSQL by Aiven, a database optimization software powered by AI that automatically rewrites and indexes PostgreSQL® and MySQL® queries. This helps development teams accelerate their databases and saves valuable developer time. The platform's entire environment and database run on AWS, with the customer-facing part enabling business owners to check their bank balance and view transactions in the accounting component. Lili is dependent on its very large database running optimally at all times, which EverSQL by Aiven helps achieve through automatic identification and optimization of SQL performance issues. This reduces the need for hiring a DBA and allows developers to take ownership of their SQL queries and optimize them, saving the company from potential issues.

The advent of OSS managed service providers aims to protect businesses from license changes and challenges with skills access while offering value, innovation, and a more vibrant community for enterprises. These OSSMS providers often employ committers to various open-source projects and contribute resources to upstream projects, ensuring the sustainability and growth of these projects in the future.