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Get Kafka-Nated S2E3: Yingjun Wu on Streaming Databases, SQL-First Processing, and Real-Time Data

Mar 12, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
March 11th, 4PM GMT Yingjun Wu is the founder and CEO of RisingWave Labs, a company building a distributed SQL database for stream processing, with over a decade of experience spanning academic research and large-scale production systems. In this episode we'll be sitting down for a coffee and a conversation with Yingjun's about what a streaming database actually is, how message brokers and streaming databases fit together in real-world architectures, and what his journey from database researcher to founder has taught him.
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Introducing Aiven's PG Studio

Mar 12, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
Aiven's PG Studio is now in Early Availability, allowing you to work with your Aiven for PostgreSQL instances, directly in the Aiven Console. Over the last several decades, PostgreSQL has been steadily climbing its way to the top of popularity amongst DBAs and app developers. With the rise of AI development, PG has become the tool that you can build with at many different development stages. This starts at the home of your data, which is the Aiven for PostgreSQL service page in the Aiven Console.
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Say Goodbye to ZooKeeper

Mar 10, 2026 By Anton Agestam In Aiven
Automated, Zero-Downtime KRaft Migrations Now Available on Aiven The Apache Kafka ecosystem has been steadily moving toward a simpler, more scalable architecture with KRaft (Kafka Raft), leaving ZooKeeper behind. In March 2025, Kafka 4.0 dropped support for ZooKeeper entirely. Since June 2025, all new Aiven for Apache Kafka services have been deployed with KRaft by default, allowing our users to benefit from faster partition scaling and simplified cluster management.
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Deterministic Simulation Testing in Diskless Apache Kafka

Mar 5, 2026 By Ivan Yurchenko In Aiven
Aiven put Diskless Kafka through 2,200 logical hours of chaos testing using Antithesis. Here's how it held up. Testing is a necessary pillar in any software development lifecycle. At the same time, it's a fundamentally incomplete process - a cat-and-mouse game. You can't test what you can't imagine and distributed systems have a nasty habit of producing failures that no one on the team imagined.
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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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