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However you Postgres, we've got you covered

Mar 3, 2026 By Tibs (Tony Ibbs) In Aiven
From free hobby projects to $5/month developer setups and enterprise-scale clusters, Aiven for PostgreSQL scales with you. Find the perfect tier for your data. Our aim is to make your use of PostgreSQL in the cloud as easy as possible, however you’re using it. Whether you are just starting to learn the ropes or you're managing a global-scale enterprise database, the platform should adapt to you, not the other way around.
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Elephant in the Room, Episode 3: Building a CFP Review Platform with PostgreSQL & Django Live

Mar 2, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
In Episode 3 of Elephant in the Room, we move from discussion to delivery with a hands-on, live build of a real, community-focused application. Join Jay Miller, Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe and Andres Pineda as they collaboratively design and build a CFP (Call for Proposals) review platform using PostgreSQL and Django. The aim: create a practical tool that helps speakers receive better feedback and helps organisers discover new and diverse voices.
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Log Management for your Homelab with Fluentd and Aiven for PostgreSQL

Feb 25, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
Tired of not knowing why your home lab containers are crashing? In this video, we’ll walk through how to set up a consolidated logging pipeline using Aiven for PostgreSQL (with TimescaleDB), Fluentd and Grafana — all running on my upgraded Mac Mini home lab. The key insight: never keep your troubleshooting tools on the same machine that's giving you problems!
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Get Kafka-Nated S2E2: Viktor Kessler on Apache Iceberg, OSS, and Community

Feb 23, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
In this episode, we sit down with Viktor Kessler, co-founder of Vakamo, major contributor to Lakekeeper, and organiser of Apache Iceberg Meetup Europe, to explore the evolving world of Apache Iceberg. From architectural deep dives to open-source governance, Viktor shares insights from building an Iceberg REST catalog in Rust, launching a company around open data governance and growing the European Iceberg community from Dublin to Vilnius.
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New high availability architecture for Aiven for PostgreSQL in limited availability

Feb 23, 2026 By Alexander Fridriksson In Aiven
At Aiven, we use and contribute to open source to build our managed data platform. In the early days of Aiven for PostgreSQL, robust cloud-native tools for high availability and streaming backups did not exist at the level we needed. So we built our own. We created pglookout to monitor replication and handle failovers, and we built pghoard for backup and restore using object storage. These tools served us and thousands of our customers well for years. But the open-source PostgreSQL ecosystem has grown.
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Elephant in the Room, Episode 4: Protecting Customer Data with PostgreSQL Anonymizer & Django

Feb 20, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
In Episode 4 of Elephant in the Room, we tackle a question many teams struggle with: how do you protect sensitive customer data from your own developers while still running and improving your web application? Join Jay Miller (Aiven) and Tim Schilling of Djangonaut Space as they explore a real-world privacy challenge. Djangonaut Space’s application process requires collecting personal information from applicants, but reviewers and contributors should not have access to identifying details. The goal: enable fair review and active development without exposing sensitive data.
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