December 2015 Summaries

The text discusses the importance of Developer Experience (DX) in application development. It emphasizes that APIs should be natural, simple, and current for developers to enjoy a compelling experience while creating applications. Aerospike's Winter 2015/16 Release includes various features such as Spring Data for Aerospike, Play 2.0 Framework Support, JDBC Connector, Docker Integration, AWS CloudFormation scripts, Geospatial Indexes & Queries, and List Manipulation. The company's focus for the next year is to maintain currency with languages and OS, provide fully asynchronous drivers, improve API usability, extend native datatype support, and enhance documentation and examples.

Aerospike has released version 3.7.0, which includes Geospatial support, allowing storage and querying of GeoJSON objects. This feature is experimental and open to feedback from users. Additionally, list operations have been improved with new server commands for manipulating lists stored in bins. Clustering improvements have also been made for environments like Google Compute Engine and Amazon EC2. The release also includes various other enhancements such as better statistics for migrations, state management improvements, and more. Aerospike is working on a "Phone Home" feature to gather data about cluster sizes, read/write rates, and features used, with the goal of making more informed decisions based on empirical data.