My blog post from this March describes how we (founding team of 4 programmers) got started with Aiven:<p><a href="https://aiven.io/blog/building-aiven-from-zero-to-usd800m-a-letter-from-our-ceo" rel="nofollow">https://aiven.io/blog/building-aiven-from-zero-to-usd800m-a-...</a>