2023-07 Edition: What’s Up With DevRel @ Aiven?
Tags: opensource, database, mysql, postgres
Published: 2023-08-04 18:56:50

# ❓Who are we and what do we do?

![The Developer Relations team at Aiven](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/oro9v66pizqgytfgjt5o.jpeg)

We’re a team that helps our customers (technical ones, but that’s basically all of them with a platform like Aiven) work with Aiven more easily. We work to boost awareness of Aiven among developers, and boost awareness of developers within Aiven.

More specifically we:

* produce (and review) [technical content](https://aiven.io/developer) and [videos](https://www.youtube.com/aiven_io)
* present (and help Aiven present) at [tech events](https://aiven.io/events)
* provide community spaces at [meetups](https://www.meetup.com/pro/open-source-data-infrastructure-community/) and our [forum](https://aiven.io/community/forum/)
* work closely with product teams to provide feedback
* connect with customers and prospects
* represent Aiven in the community and industry (appearing on podcasts, live streams, etc)

To learn more about our team, see [Aiven DevRel team: enabling success in open source data tech](https://aiven.io/community/devrel).

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# 👀 Month At-A-Glance

* 💕 Read about awesome community members we’re collaborating with in the Community Shout-Outs section.
* 📆 We did talks at Events including Europython and FOSSY 2023.
* 🌍 Additionally, Meetups were held around the world in Berlin, Amsterdam, Jakarta and New York.
* 💻 Our team delivered tons of great Technical Content, like on OPA (Open Policy Agent) and much more!

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# 💕 Community Shout-Outs

* [Mattias Jonsson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjonss/?originalSubdomain=nl), a senior database engineer from[ PingCAP](https://www.pingcap.com/) gave an introduction into an open source distributed SQL database[ TiDB](https://www.pingcap.com/tidb/), at the July [Berlin Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup](https://www.meetup.com/berlin-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup/).
* The July [Paris OSDI meetup](https://www.meetup.com/paris-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup/) was hosted by our friends at [Scaleway](https://www.scaleway.com/en/).
* At the July [NYC OSDI meetup](https://www.meetup.com/new-york-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup/), @brooke_jamieson, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS spoke about vector databases.

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# 💻 Technical Content

This section covers new technical content published on Aiven’s…

📣 [Blog](https://aiven.io/blog): thought-leadership pieces, announcements

🔧 [Developer Center](https://aiven.io/developer): tutorials, example code

📺 [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/Aiven_io): how-tos, conference talks, meetup recordings, livestreams

💬 [Forum](https://aiven.io/community/forum/): frequently asked questions, release announcements

![ClickHouse CTO Alexey Milovidov at the Amsterdam meetup](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ietzul177uwh5nzxysfm.jpeg)

## 🚀 (General)

* 📣 @dewanahmed authored a blog: [Enforce fine-grained policy control across your data infrastructure with Open Policy Agent and Terraform](https://aiven.io/developer/enforce-fine-grained-policy-control-across-your-data-infrastructure-with-opa-terraform).
* 📺 The [video for the OSDI meetup in Paris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIRSQ8BITHg) hosted at Scaleway is now live. The topic discussed was database testing through simulation.

## 🐜 Apache Kafka

* 📺 The [video for the Milan Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup on scaling machine learning and GitOps for Kafka](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH__EnuivUQ), is now live.

## 🏠 ClickHouse®

* 📺The [video recording of the Amsterdam Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbdeJzJ2hl0) with ClickHouse CTO [Alexey Milovidov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexey-milovidov-7b658135/) and our @olena_kutsenko is available for on-demand viewing.

## 🐬 MySQL

* 📣 [Scale up: a MySQL bug story, or why Aiven works](https://aiven.io/blog/mysql-bug-story-or-why-aiven-works) - by Celeste Horgan & Leon Bezuidenhout
* 📺 [Getting started with SQL series](https://youtu.be/eAGXJio6Zj0) - by @jennjunod 

## 🐘 PostgreSQL®

* 📺 [Creating Databases, Schemas, and Tables on pgAdmin](https://youtu.be/6DzCWzeVFD0) - by Jenn Junod 
* 📺 [Connecting PostgreSQL to pgAdmin](https://youtu.be/bonsKCHHS3k) - by Jenn Junod

## 🏗 Terraform

* 💬 [Terraform provider v4.8.0 is out](https://aiven.io/community/forum/t/terraform-provider-v4-8-0-is-out/383/1) - Google’s Private Service Connect (PSC) is now supported in Aiven’s Provider for Terraform.

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# 📆 Meetups & Events

Each month, we host[ Open Source Data Infrastructure (OSDI) Meetups](https://www.meetup.com/pro/open-source-data-infrastructure-community/) around the world for a developer audience, and speak at conferences, make podcast appearances, create livestreams, and more!

![Jenn at the NYC OSDI meetup](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/mvomv5n5sbdbri8s00ap.jpeg)

## 🌍 EMEA

* :eu: [Europython (Prague)](https://ep2023.europython.eu/): Tony Ibbs talked about "[Fish and chips and Apache Kafka®](https://ep2023.europython.eu/session/fish-and-chips-and-apache-kafka)" to a full room. The slides and demo code can be found at[ Aiven Labs](https://github.com/Aiven-Labs/fish-and-chips-and-kafka), updated with a link to the video recording soon.
* :de: [Berlin OSDI Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/berlin-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup/): @olena_kutsenko  spoke about how to in Apache Kafka correctly distribute data across partitions and prevent unbalanced partitions. [Mattias Jonsson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjonss/?originalSubdomain=nl), a senior database engineer from[ PingCAP](https://www.pingcap.com/) gave an introduction into an open source distributed SQL database [TiDB](https://www.pingcap.com/tidb/). The recording's up: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t-dvQb_uzc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t-dvQb_uzc) View an event recap at: https://aiven.io/community/forum/t/summer-edition-of-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup-in-berlin/370

![Matty Stratton at AWS Summit](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ke7s97lb72a08f4psbej.jpeg)

## 🌎 AMER

* :us: [FOSSY 2023](https://2023.fossy.us/) (Portland, OR): Angie Byron spoke on [Lessons Learned From Scaling An Open Source Community By 10,000%](https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/30/). This was the inaugural year of the conference, organized by the [Software Freedom Conservancy](https://sfconservancy.org/).
  * Session Recording: (forthcoming; here are the [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Fc4hdb8Y2mLqjsMa1QJDSpUPn5WSVspTordKsq8zQlA/edit#slide=id.g22ea887a526_0_1238))
* :us: [NYC OSDI Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/new-york-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup/events/294326349) (July 27): run by Jenn Junod, with Brooke Jamieson, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS speaking about vector databases, following [AWS Summit](https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/new-york/).

## 🌏 APAC

* :indonesia: [Jakarta OSDI Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/jakarta-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup/events/294758762/): Aiven's Budi Kusuma Utama ran the meetup, July 27, 37 people showed up and we're asking about when the next event would take place!

![The July Jakarta Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/kjju4303hakari1ujf96.jpeg)

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# 📆 Meetups & Events (Upcoming)

Here are the events you will find us at next: [https://aiven.io/events](https://aiven.io/events).

## 🌍 EMEA

* :norway: [Javazone](https://2023.javazone.no/) (September 6-7, Oslo): Make sure you join Olena Kutsenko for her talk “ClickHouse: what is behind the fastest columnar database?”
* :uk: [DevRelCon London](https://london-2023.devrelcon.dev/) (September 7-8): @ugbot will talk about improving the visibility and buy-in of DevRel work, and @floord will lead the Unconference. 
* :pretzel: [AWS Community Day DACH](https://www.aws-community-day.de/) (September 13): Meet the AWS community, and join Olena Kutsenko for her talk “Using OpenSearch and Apache Kafka to explore Mastodon”.
* :de: [Containerdays Hamburg](https://www.containerdays.io/) (September 11-12): Floor Drees will be one of the room hosts for Containerdays Hamburg.

## 🌎 AMER

* :us: [Devopsdays Chicago](https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-chicago/welcome/) (August 9-10): Dewan Ahmed will run a workshop titled “Enforce fine-grained policy control across development and production environments”. Join the [Chicago Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup](https://www.meetup.com/chicago-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup/events/294067714/) in August, at Discover, for an evening full of inspiring conversations and exciting talks.
* :us: [Google Cloud Next](https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/) (August 29 - 31): Ben Gamble and Ian Massingham, among a much larger Aiven delegation, will join Google Cloud Next - which we joined as a Velocity sponsor.
* :us: [Current 2023](https://www.confluent.io/events/current/) (September 26-27, San Jose, California): Chris Egerton, Greg Harris and @ftisiot will all be speaking at _the_ Apache Kafka® and real-time streaming event of the year: Current.
* :us: [OpenSearchCon](https://opensearchcon2023.splashthat.com/) (September 27-29, Seattle): Join Jonah Kowall at OpenSearchCon for his session “18 months of operating OpenSearch at scale”.

## 🌏 APAC

* :singapore: [OSDI Singapore](https://www.meetup.com/singapore-open-source-data-infrastructure-meetup/events/294569944) (August 2): Join the Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup at Google Asia Pacific, for talks by Bhanu Jamwal (PingCap) and Kaijun Xu (Google Cloud).