June 2020 Summaries

The Aerospike Standup Vol. 7 is a newsletter for developers that covers various topics such as blog posts, community questions, documentation, releases and events. It is released every other week and can be subscribed to via email. Community questions addressed include restoring backups with expired keys and partition-level scans. Upcoming webinars include "Viettel's Journey to an International-Awarded Online Charging System With Aerospike" on July 7, 2020, and "What to Look for in a Globally Distributed System" on July 14, 2020.

The Aerospike standup is a newsletter written by developers for developers, featuring blog posts, community questions, documentation, releases, and events. The newsletter includes articles on topics such as partition-level scanning, globally distributed systems, and what to look for in such systems. It also announces upcoming webinars and virtual tradeshows, including Aerospike-related events, and provides release notes for the latest updates. Additionally, it shares questions from the community, including one about restoring a backup with expired keys, and documents new developments in the Go client.

The COVID crisis has accelerated the need for digital transformation across industries, with businesses in Asia adapting to new realities by embracing remote work, digital payments, and telecommunication innovations. As a result, companies like Tencent, AliPay, PhonePe, PayTM, and GrabPay have become household names in the region. The pandemic has also pushed people towards digital banking and payments as safer options. Telecom industry leaders in Asia, such as Airtel, Telstra, and Viettel Corporation, have adapted their services to cater to changing needs during the crisis by offering affordable internet access, educational content, and free wallet-to-wallet money transfers. Online commerce companies like Snapdeal, Flipkart, Alibaba, Tencent, and Dream11 have also faced scale challenges but managed to handle supply chain issues and delivery challenges while catering to the essential needs of consumers during lockdowns.

Aerospike Database 5 introduces multi-site clusters, which are designed to provide strong resiliency against various failures. These clusters enable businesses to respond quickly to customers and partners across the globe by offering a global footprint, always-on availability, strong consistency, and cost efficiency. Multi-site clusters consist of multiple nodes distributed evenly across sites, with data sharded into partitions and replicated for synchronous updates. They support zero downtime upgrades and automatic recovery from most node, site, and link failures. The failure detection and recovery process ensures that the cluster is ready to process new requests while new replicas are populated from their respective masters. A 3-site cluster provides superior resiliency compared to a 2-site cluster, automatically recovering with full availability of data from any single site failure and node failures spanning any two sites.

Aerospike and Forrester Research recently collaborated on a webinar called "AI Innovation in Banking" as part of BrightTALK's Digital Transformation in Financial Services summit. The discussion focused on how banks can effectively utilize their vast amounts of customer data, particularly through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Jost Hopperman from Forrester Research discussed the evolving data architecture and how financial institutions are transitioning from traditional banking platforms to future-ready digital platforms. Aerospike's Chief Strategy Officer Lenley Hensarling shared valuable use cases for Financial Services institutions in utilizing their new and improved data platforms, including more data for tighter SLAs, passive identity validation, risk scoring for anomaly detection, and behavioral profile store. The webinar emphasizes the importance of leveraging customer data to enhance services and meet evolving consumer expectations in a rapidly changing world.

The Aerospike Standup Vol. 6 is a newsletter for developers, featuring blog posts, community questions, documentation updates, releases, and events from the Aerospike team. Upcoming events include an online Aerospike User Group talk on June 25th about transactions in Aerospike, Natalie Pistunovich's talk at GoWayFest 4.0 on July 11-12 about infrastructure for machine learning applications, and CeFPro Fraud & Financial Crime Europe 2020 in London on September 1-2, where Aerospike will speak about combating fraud and financial crime.

Aerospike has launched a standup newsletter, `Aerospike Standup`, which serves as a central hub for developers to access blog posts, community questions, documentation, releases, and events written by the Aerospike team. The newsletter includes articles on resolving uncertain transactions in Aerospike and twelve do's of consistency in Aerospike, as well as updates on new documentation and upcoming events such as an online user group talk and a conference appearance for Aerospike at CeFPro Fraud & Financial Crime Europe 2020.

Aerospike stands against racism and inequality, acknowledging the suffering of minorities due to violence and discrimination. The company is taking action by empowering its employees with initiatives such as matching donations to non-profit organizations, granting paid days for personal efforts towards change, and reimbursing expenses for educational materials on overcoming biases. Working together, Aerospike aims to make a difference in society.

To spot a bad benchmark, consider the following points: 1) Ensure that the physics and measurements involved make sense. Avoid confusing academic terms or misleading marketing claims. 2) Verify if the benchmark provides valuable information about real-world deployments by checking the dataset size and relevance. 3) Be cautious of absurdly overprovisioned benchmarks, as they may not reflect actual usage scenarios. 4) Ensure fairness in benchmark comparisons by avoiding intentional hobbling or unrealistic configurations for competing systems. 5) Check if the benchmark is understandable and reproducible, with clear details on hardware, configurations, and methodologies. Lastly, maintain a critical mindset when evaluating benchmarks.