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The platform we operate today is fundamentally different and far more resilient than it was five years ago. We've scaled significantly (recently passing $100M ARR) because we took those early lessons seriously and continue to prioritize reliability.
https://aiven.io/blog/building-aiven-from-zero-to-usd800m-a-...
Aiven is a series B startup with hundreds of customers creating fully managed cloud services from the best open source data technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL.)
Our cloud services allow clients to focus on building awesome applications instead of worrying about data infrastructure management. All our services are based on open source technologies and we're active open source contributors.
We're now looking for new SREs for our offices in Helsinki, Berlin and Sydney and a SRE leader to work on building a new SRE team in Toronto.
See https://aiven.io/careers for more information.
Aiven is a rapidly growing, well funded startup creating fully managed cloud services from the best open source data technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL.)
Our cloud services allow our clients to focus on building awesome applications instead of worrying about data infrastructure management. All our services are based on open source technologies and we're active open source contributors.
We're headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and also have offices in Berlin, Boston and Sydney. We're now looking for new team members for engineering and go-to-market positions.
See https://aiven.io/careers for more information.
Aiven is a rapidly growing, well funded startup creating fully managed cloud services from the best open source data technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL.)
Our cloud services allow our clients to focus on building awesome applications instead of worrying about data infrastructure management. All our services are based on open source technologies and we're active open source contributors.
We're headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and also have offices in Berlin, Boston and Sydney. We're now looking for new team members for engineering and go-to-market positions.
See https://aiven.io/careers for more information.
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Free trial for a managed Kafka service in the cloud has been available from various other vendors including us (https://aiven.io) for a while.
Aiven is a rapidly growing series A startup creating fully managed cloud services from the best open source database and event streaming technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL.)
Our cloud services allow our clients to focus on building awesome applications instead of worrying about data infrastructure management. All our services are based on open source technologies and we're active open source contributors.
We're headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and can help you relocate here, but we also have employees in other cities across European Union, United States and Australia and welcome remote applications. We're now looking for new team members for site reliability engineering, customer success and developer advocacy.
See https://aiven.io/careers for more information on our open positions.
Our cloud services allow our clients to focus on building awesome applications instead of worrying about data infrastructure management. All our services are based on the best open source technologies, and we're also active open source contributors.
We're headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and can help you relocate here, but we also have employees in other cities across European Union and United States and welcome remote applications. We're now looking for new team members to work on site reliability engineering, customer success and developer advocacy.
https://thehub.fi/jobs/company/aiven lists more of our open positions. Please note that while the site lists the positions in Helsinki, many of them are also available for remote employees in other locations across EU and US.
Our managed Kafka service has no artificial limits to throughput as shown in a recent blog post comparing price & performance across different clouds: https://aiven.io/blog/benchmarking-kafka-write-throughput-pe...
There are various other ways you can access the system outside PG once you're a superuser which is why most hosted PG providers (like us) don't allow superuser access.
I gave a talk on this subject at PostgresConf NYC a couple weeks ago, my slides are here: https://postgresconf.org/conferences/2019/program/proposals/...
I'll follow up with a blog post in the near future.
"select * from table1 keft join table2 using (somecol)" is an inner join of table1 and table2, but table1 is assigned the alias "keft", because "AS" between table and its alias is optional.
Aiven is a cloud technology startup creating fully managed cloud services from the best open source database and event streaming technologies.
Our cloud services allow our clients to focus on building awesome applications instead of worrying about data infrastructure management. All our services are based on the best open source technologies, and we're also active open source contributors.
We're headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and can help you relocate here, but we also have employees in other cities across European Union and United States and welcome remote applications. We're now looking for new team members to work on site reliability engineering, customer success and developer advocacy.
https://thehub.fi/jobs/company/aiven lists more of our open positions. Please note that while the site lists the positions in Helsinki, many of them are also available for remote employees in other locations across EU and US.
Our original announcement of PGHoard at https://aiven.io/blog/postgresql-cloud-backups-with-pghoard/ lists some of the reasons we had for building a new system from scratch.
Nowadays there are many good options for handling basebackups and WAL, and one of the largest remaining issues is the lack of parallel WAL apply in PostgreSQL itself, which limits restore throughput quite severely.
Implementing a SFTP backend using e.g. paramiko in PGHoard should be pretty simple.
You can find startup jobs in Nordics from e.g. https://thehub.fi (Finland) or https://thehub.se (Sweden)
The same Linux, PostgreSQL, etc versions were used on all platforms. We didn't use RDS, CloudSQL or other managed services from the infrastructure providers, but the PDF version of the presentation does include comparison of our managed PostgreSQL service with RDS PG and Aurora PG if you're interested.
We are not the upstream for any of the engines running in Aiven, so we work with the upstream developers and communities to resolve any issues found. Often our involvement in fixing the issues is through providing logs, stack traces and other debugging information to the original authors of the code, but in some cases we also fix the issues ourselves and always contribute such fixes back upstream, see e.g. this commit for a PostgreSQL bug that was found by our customers and fixed by us: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/07ef035129586ca2...
The summary is that we're committed to open source software and this change won't affect our users. We'll follow-up with a more details about our plans in early January.
Our services utilize T3, M5, R5 and I3 instance types, so we offer e.g. 4GB RAM PostgreSQL service which isn't available in RDS, but right now we don't have instances smaller than that in AWS.
This makes it possible to easily update your event processing logic or add new components to the mix while maintaining a clean architecture.
I gave a talk about this at PostgresConf US a few weeks ago, the talk's not yet available as an article, but you can get the slides from https://aiven.io/blog/aiven-talks-in-postgresconf-us-2018/ if you're interested.
We'll update that with other managed services soon.