April 2016 Summaries

The Inglorious Developer Experience (DX) has been focusing on improving APIs and enhancing developer experience since its manifesto launch. Key updates include Docker integration, production-ready Geospatial, asynchronous programming support with C/C++ client v4.0, Python 3 support, Node.js client v2.0, Indexed List, Map & GeoJSON, Play Framework integration, and Spring Data integration. The team plans to deliver features like Sorted Map and Last Time Updated in the first half of this year while maintaining currency with OSs, Distros, and Client Languages. They also aim to improve API usability, error messages clarity, provide standard UDFs, enhance documentation & examples, and extend native datatype support. Developers are encouraged to contribute their feedback, ideas, and questions to the user forum or Github for continuous improvement of DX.

Aerospike has released version 3.8 of its server software, which includes new features such as secondary indexes on list, map and geospatial data types, Geospatial as a Generally Available feature, and improvements to clustering algorithms for environments like Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Amazon EC2. Other enhancements include reduced memory footprint during migration, improved duplicate resolution, better cache alignment for SSD-backed namespaces, and more predictable TTL eviction. The release also includes support for new O/S platforms such as Centos 7, Debian 8, and Ubuntu 14.04.