I’m working almost entirely with docs-as-code setups for prose at work these days and while I do use vim for most of what I do, VSCode is increasingly in the mix. It’s just about accessible enough with keyboard shortcuts and the command palette for me, and I thought I’d share…

What happened to my blog? Nothing happened, I still blog … except then I looked at my site the other day and realised, it’s been a while. The blog here at lornajane.net is mumble years old. It is full of things I wanted to write down, and tells the story…

Our mission at Aiven is to make developers’ lives better. Today I’d like to share our new tool that makes Laravel developers’ lives better by adding some helpful functionality to their projects. Laravel is the most popular PHP framework in use today, and is usually backed by either MySQL or…

What immediately strikes me about M3 is how it is designed to fit in alongside the other tools in a likely architecture. It has interfaces to match the ones we already know and love from Prometheus and InfluxDB. The integration with Grafana is also seamless. It’s as if M3 is…

How do I ensure that I keep my attendees’ attention when I’m presenting virtually? I don’t. I have seen a few tactics for holding people’s attention during virtual events. One is to require everyone present to perform a particular action such as typing a message or clicking an icon, several…

Time series data can be defined as a collection of data points or measurements taken at different times (as opposed to data about many objects concerning a single point in time). So structurally, time series data shares many characteristics with event streams. In this article, we will go through some…

Getting the different components in your systems talking nicely to one another relies on a rather mundane but crucial detail: a good data structure in the message payloads. …

There are some excellent articles around about what a Developer Advocate does, but have you ever wondered WHY we do what we do? I tried to articulate this when chatting with another developer lately, and I’m still thinking about it! …

Perhaps you recognise Aiven as the multicloud platform for all your open source data needs, the one with the lovely web interface. And perhaps, if you didn’t already, you recognise us that way now :) But Aiven is more than just the Aiven Console, we also have an API for…