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Inkless clusters upgrade classic topics with 90% faster recovery and 10x faster scaling with infinite storage, while adding diskless topics.

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.

After reviewing all the submissions, we realised we could not have chosen just one winner. When we launched Aiven's Free Tier Kafka competition with a $5,000 prize pool, we wanted to see what the community could build. What we got back was incredible: genuine creativity, technical depth, and projects that are truly inspiring to the Apache Kafka community. After reviewing all the submissions, we realized we could not have chosen just one winner.

We are thrilled to announce that the OpenSearch major version 3 (3.3.2) is available on Aiven for OpenSearch, only a few weeks after its upstream release! The major version 3 of OpenSearch is a foundational upgrade, built on a new, high-performance core, marking a significant step forward in performance and usability. This means that as an Aiven customer, you get immediate access to a faster, more efficient search experience, all fully managed.

How streaming architecture and vector databases power instant, personalised retail experiences.

The Valkey JSON module implements native JSON data type support within Valkey, allowing users to efficiently store, query, and modify complex, nested JSON data structures directly. This overcomes previous architectural complexities, such as needing to serialize entire documents as strings or flatten data into hashes, by providing native handling for nested data models.

Win $5,000 by building a cool project using Aiven’s new free tier Kafka, and sharing it online with or.

Introducing Aiven’s New PG AI Editor - A simpler, faster, developer-friendly way to work with PostgreSQL.

Traversing the Gap Between Sparse and Dense Vector Spaces.

How I used Aiven's free Kafka tier to monitor my smart bird feeder in real-time.