I’m super excited about entering into a tech-alliance with Aiven. Ever since I first spoke to Oskari, Aiven’s CEO, I was intrigued by how complementary our offerings are: Humanitec on the application layer and Aiven on the database layer. Our technical alliance provides an entirely new degree of never-before-seen Developer Experience.
Aiven offers managed versions for the most relevant open source databases on all the major public cloud platforms. This removes managing databases from your Ops team’s to-do list and enables you to innovate faster. You can also avoid provider lock-in by Aiven’s standardization of different database-types between clouds.
With Humanitec, as you are probably aware of, your developers can deploy applications seamlessly between cloud providers — without any knowledge of the underlying infrastructure. You again avoid provider lock-in, but on the application layer. A development team can, for instance, effortlessly run their development and staging environment in GCP, and production environment in AWS or Azure.
I don’t have to tell you how powerful this combination of tools is.
For the first time in history, you can shift an entire application between different cloud providers with a single click of a button or an API call. This is indeed revolutionary. It’s hard to believe, but infrastructure becomes an implementation detail.
This layer drastically simplifies both the maintenance of applications and databases for the Ops team while relieving pressure. Meanwhile, you can streamline the developer experience from a bunch of hard-to-maintain scripts to a well-oiled machine.
If you’re interested in learning more, we are organizing a joint webinar to show this powerful combination: DBaaS + Kubernetes: The key to multi-cloud developer productivity?
You can also try it yourself. Sign up for our community edition and check out our documentation about Aiven.
Keep building!
Kaspar
