We’re excited to announce that a beta version of our Aiven for Apache Flink service is now publicly available for anyone to try. Find out more!

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to perfectly predict the future? We are a long way from being able to do that, but that is basically the goal of anybody working in the data science field — take a bunch of historical data and then try to make future predictions based on that data.

Panu Kalliokoski is here to tell you AND your boss why Aiven is the way to go. Read on, and then send the link along to the higher-ups in your company!

Conventional databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB are great at safekeeping the state of your system in a tabular or document format, but what about time-dependent data: systems metrics, IoT device measurement or application state change? For those things, you need a more suitable type of database, one designed to manage better semi-structured data with a time characteristic.

CloudFabrix solution provides a holistic approach for enterprises to implement proactive operations with the objective of eliminating/reducing critical incidents and improving customer satisfaction. The solution primarily relies on applying regression/forecasting models on any time-series data to detect and forecast anomalies. One of the unique features of the solution is the ability to convert unstructured data such as logs/incidents/alerts into time-series data to be used for running prediction models.

Programmers spending their time on tool issues is an old problem. The new solution in town is a separate team that takes care of it for them.

It’s that season of sharing, and in the spirit of sharing, we have a new feature to share with you — notebook sharing. Now you can take your favorite InfluxDB notebooks and share them with whoever you would like. They don’t need to have an InfluxDB Cloud account. They just click on the link you share with them, and they can see the notebook that you shared, for the time range that you selected.

Aiven invites startups to our new startup program. Find out why Aiven is helping fresh early-stage startups with discounts and other opportunities.