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Aiven
Company blog · aiven.io/blog · on HN as oskaridataprogramming
Aiven is the company blog at aiven.io, writing about data and programming. Since 2016, 51 different Hacker News readers have linked it 165 times, most often “TimescaleDB turns managed PostgreSQL into time series database”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Aiven runs managed open source data services such as PostgreSQL, Kafka and Valkey. HN mostly links its pages as hosting options, and some blog posts on Postgres and Valkey topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Aiven is an AI-ready open source data platform that combines open-source services to rapidly stream, store and serve data across major cloud providers — simply and securely.
Most-linked posts?
- /9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-02-23
- /postgresql7 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2016-04-18
- /6 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2016-03-18
- TimescaleDB turns managed PostgreSQL into time series database3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-18
- Kafka Performance on AWS, GCP, Azure3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-21
- Hiring EU2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-03-02
- Aiven statement on license changes for the Confluent Platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-20
- Teach Yourself Apache Kafka and Python with a Jupyter Notebook2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-10
- SQL query optimization: a comprehensive developer's guide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-21
- Time travel: two-dimensional time with bitemporal data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-27
What Hacker News says?
>Nobody has performed any kind of automatic or default transition from Redis to valkey for existing customers. >My claim that statistically zero (cloud provider) customers are using valkey should, I sincerely hope, be self-evident. This is simply not true. For example, Aiven (a cloud provider) completely ended support for Redis at the end of March and migrated existing users to Valkey. https://aiven.io/docs/platform…
Comment linking /docs/platform/reference/end-of-life
on “Redis is open source again”Submitted Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support as a story · 282 points
HN discussion> Imagine.. RDS is literally the ONLY place where you can buy a 10 GB data multi-AZ replicated, snapshotted and managed postgresql. Not true. I was looking for a hosted Postgres provider and discovered these two: https://aiven.io/postgresql (tried it, worked excellently) https://www.elephantsql.com
Comment linking /postgresql
on “Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service”Submitted Hard truths about scaling data intensive applications as a story · 51 points
HN discussionPostgreSQL 10 will be available in Aiven (managed Postgres and other databases in multiple clouds including AWS and GCP, see https://aiven.io ) within a couple of days after we've completed our validation process with the final version.
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on “PostgreSQL 10 Released”Submitted Data Infrastructure for All: Free Kafka and $5 PostgreSQL as a story · 33 points
HN discussionWhile not Microsoft offerings, there are some options available: my company Aiven ( https://aiven.io/postgresql ) offers managed PostgreSQL service on Azure as well. ElephantSQL ( https://www.elephantsql.com/ ) is an another provider with hosted Postgres on Azure.
Comment linking /postgresql
on “Google Cloud SQL for Postgres”Submitted Aiven introduces free plans for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis as a story · 28 points
HN discussionIf you need plv8, high availability or replication features today in Google Cloud, our Aiven PostgreSQL service may fit your needs, have a look at https://aiven.io/postgresql
Comment linking /postgresql
on “Google Cloud SQL for Postgres”Submitted Open Source as a Service – going from 0 to $800M valuation as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThere are vendors running managed Postgres services on Google Cloud Platform, like ElephantSQL [1] and Aiven [2]. And you can of course run your own on GCE, even to the extent of 24/7 commercial support - you can run EnterpriseDB from Cloud Launcher [3]. And, you can also run Kubernetes on AWS - we have a group focused on making sure it's an excellent experience. I work for Google Cloud Platform; ping me if you'd li…
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on “Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud”Submitted SQL query optimization: a comprehensive developer's guide as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThere's some indications that Google would support Postgres as part of the CLoudSQL in the future. But there are already multiple DB-as-a-Service offerings that provide PostgreSQL in Google Cloud. My company, Aiven ( https://aiven.io ) is one of the providers and I believe Compose, DatabaseLabs and ElephantSQL also provide managed PG in Google Cloud.
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on “Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS”Submitted High level overview of the current data and event ecosystem as a story · 11 points
HN discussionAiven | Site Reliability Engineers & Leaders | Toronto, Berlin, Sydney | https://aiven.io/careers 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…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Diskless Kafka: 80% Leaner, 100% Open as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMy company does managed Postgres on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean and UpCloud - https://aiven.io/postgresql . Compose offers managed Postgres ( https://www.compose.com/postgresql ), as does ElephantSQL ( https://www.elephantsql.com/ ). Database Labs is one more provider ( https://www.databaselabs.io/ ). Google recently added beta version of Postgres to Cloud SQL as well ( https://cloud.google.com/s…
Comment linking /postgresql
on “Why Use Postgres?”Submitted Aiven Now Provides Kafka Connect as a Service as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWhile not AWS product, Aiven ( https://aiven.io/postgresql ) has a hosted offering with 9.6 support on AWS as well as on Azure, GCE and DigitalOcean.
Comment linking /postgresql
on “PostgreSQL 9.6 Released”Submitted TimescaleDB turns managed PostgreSQL into time series database as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWe are Aiven—a cloud technology startup launched in 2016. We create managed cloud services from the best open source technologies that take the infrastructure worries away from our customers. Our products are used daily by hundreds of customers across the globe to power their next-gen event streaming and analytics applications with more joining every single day. Backed by Europe's leading investors, we’re now lookin…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”Submitted MySQL now offered in 6 clouds through Aiven as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAiven | Site Reliability Engineers, Customer Success Engineers, Developer advocates | Helsinki / Boston | ONSITE / REMOTE | https://aiven.io/careers 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 ma…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted Kafka Performance on AWS, GCP, Azure as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAiven | Site Reliability Engineers, Customer Success Engineers, Developer Advocates | Helsinki, Boston, Berlin, Sydney | ONSITE / REMOTE | https://aiven.io/careers 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 awe…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”Submitted Kafka vs. RabbitMQ – A Comparison as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAiven | Python Backend Engineers, SREs, DevOps | Berlin, Helsinki, Toronto, Sydney | Full-time, remote/onsite | https://aiven.io/careers/ We are Aiven — a cloud technology startup launched in 2016. We create managed cloud services from the best open source technologies that take the infrastructure worries away from our customers. Our products are used daily by hundreds of customers across the globe to power their ne…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Aiven Open Sources Google Cloud Storage Kafka Sink Connector as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAiven | Python Backend Engineers, SREs, DevOPs | Berlin, Helsinki, Toronto, Sydney | Full-time, remote/onsite | https://aiven.io/careers/ We are Aiven — a cloud technology startup launched in 2016. We create managed cloud services from the best open source technologies that take the infrastructure worries away from our customers. Our products are used daily by hundreds of customers across the globe to power their ne…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted Updating Apache Kafka Benchmarks and Pricing Write Throughput on Largest Clouds as a story · 7 points
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