In this talk, Field CTO & Co-founder of Aiven, Heikki Nousiainen will talk through the common challenges that go into managing database and streaming infrastructure over the course of an architecture and applications lifetime. The team at Aiven and the platform we have built solves these problems to deliver the best open source DBaaS, like Postgres and Apache Kafka, across the public cloud reliably. Supporting truly zero-downtime operations such as when applying maintenance updates, upgrading resources, or staying up to date with software versions is difficult. Here’s what we’ve learned!