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Inkless clusters are ready for Aiven Cloud. In the current 'Kafka-compatible' market, many engineers are forced to manage multiple clusters for them to balance performance and cost. Inkless fixes this. As an open-source fork of Apache Kafka, Inkless introduces a composable design that allows you to run classic and diskless topics side-by-side in the same cluster, powered by Open Source innovations like KRaft, Tiered Storage, and KIP-1150. The engineering impact is significant: Inkless allows you to scale and rebalance up to 10x faster than Apache Kafka, while slashing recovery times for node and disk failures by up to 90%. By utilising unlimited storage without the need for pre-provisioning, you can eliminate disk-related bottlenecks After maturing in our BYOC offering, Inkless clusters are ready for Aiven Cloud. You can leverage 100% Kafka API compatibility and the performance benefits of KIP-1150 today. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/ecYVYYaY #Kafka #ApacheKafka #Disklesskafka

How do you protect customer data from your own team while still running and improving your web application? That was the challenge Tim Schilling, our guest for Episode 4 of Elephant in the Room, faced with Djangonaut Space, a mentorship program focused on welcoming new contributors into the Django ecosystem. The application process requires collecting personal information, but reviewers and developers should not have access to identifying details. In this episode, we’ll unpack the privacy problem and walk through a practical solution we designed using PostgreSQL Anonymizer and Django middleware. The result is an approach that anonymizes sensitive data without breaking workflows or slowing development. Watch the episode to learn how to build stronger privacy protections into your architecture while keeping your team productive: https://lnkd.in/emf4uNFA

We’ve been listening to our customers, and are excited to share that we've released our new high availability architecture in limited availability (LA). When enabled at the project or organisation level, it becomes the default for all new Aiven for PostgreSQL services. The means faster backups, quicker startups, shorter maintenance windows, and stronger protection against network outages, helping your services stay up and running when it matters most. You can try it out today for new services, with migration of existing services becoming available later when the service becomes generally available (GA). https://lnkd.in/eD3GRUHJ

Huge congratulations to our Kafka competition winners and thank you to all the incredible participants. This is just the beginning, with our Open Source Awards and a new PostgreSQL-focused competition on the way, we’re doubling down on making it simple to build with Aiven. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eYHtX-JP

As it’s Valentine’s Day, we decided to do what every serious data company should do. Write the best (possibly cringiest) pick up lines we could think of for developers. Are you OpenSearch? Because I can Lucene a life together Are you MySQL? A Cutie that Is Dear to me Are you Kafka? We've been messaging all day Are you ClickHouse? You keep the TableEngine of my heart beating Are you PostgreSQL? I'd never query our relationship after all these years Which one has your heart? Or do you think can you do better? Comment below!

We’re excited to share that Aiven for OpenSearch now brings a whole new level of performance, efficiency and search power to your managed search workloads with the release of v3.3. Built upon Apache Lucene 10, this upgrade reduces search latency and delivers faster queries with smarter storage and enhanced vector search. If you care about pushing the limits of search performance and getting the most out of your data platform, read the full blog post below for a deeper look at what’s new and how to get started. https://lnkd.in/eTG3Um7i

Viktor Kessler is both co-founder of Vakamo, a company specialising in governance for Iceberg, and a major contributor to Lakekeeper, an open-source Iceberg REST catalog. His contributions to the Iceberg aren’t limited to pull requests: Viktor is also the organiser of the Apache Iceberg Meetup Europe and hosted some fantastic events in 2025 that brought the Iceberg community together all over Europe from Dublin to Vilnius. In this episode we’ll be picking Viktor’s brains about Iceberg Rest and his experiences working with Iceberg: as a founder building a business on Open Source, as a contributor pushing new features, and as a community organiser.

Season 2 of Get Kafka-Nated continues Wed, Feb 11, 4pm GMT. Viktor Kessler (Vakamo co-founder and Lakekeeper Committer) joins Hugh Evans to discuss building Iceberg governance, the open-source Lakekeeper REST catalog, and his 2025 European Iceberg meetup tour. If you’re building open-source data infrastructure, you won’t want to miss this one. https://lnkd.in/eTWhY9An

Just sat down with our panel of judges from the team at Aiven to pick a winner for the Free Tier Kafka competition and it wasn't easy! We were totally blown away by the quality of the entries, and the creativity and variety of projects submitted. Everyone who participated should be proud of their work, we were extremely impressed at how you all brought Kafka to life. The winner of the $5k prize will be announced next week, watch this space for the news. #freetierkafka #kafkafreetier #aiven Velmurugan Manoharan ⚽️ Arun C Yusuf Ganiyu Jaime López Vinícius Pereira de Oliveira Dan CYTERMANN Naci Simsek Damian Bemben Haziq Hakimi Mazlisham Kuba Nowakowski Daniel De Burgo 🐿️ Ben Gamble🧑🏾🦯 Jack Murphy

We loved working with the team at Katana Cloud Inventory on this latest case study. It was rewarding to see firsthand how they are transforming the way e-commerce and retail SMBs handle their data. By rebuilding their platform with Aiven for Apache Kafka and ClickHouse, they’ve shown how the right data infrastructure can unlock both performance and meaningful business impact. The shift delivers analytics queries that run in seconds instead of hours, real-time inventory visibility across channels, and a scalable foundation for AI-driven innovation. Read the full case study to see how Katana did it: https://lnkd.in/ehTtCfve