February 2021 Summaries

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming industries through modernization and transformation efforts during the global health crisis. Industrial and manufacturing sectors are at the forefront of IoT adoption, with a focus on practical use cases such as production monitoring, predictive maintenance, and inventory tracking. Digital Twins, 3D models built from sensor data, are increasingly being used to improve operational efficiency and safety in these industries. The rise of IoT has highlighted the multi-polarity of workload venues, with a diverse range of data storage and analysis locations including cloud, datacenters, and edge devices. Industrial organizations are leveraging their sensor data more than ever before, leading to a smarter future for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Aerospike has introduced new administrative capabilities for its Asadm tool. With the latest Aerospike Tools 5.1.0, users can now manage user and roles, add and remove User-Defined Functions (UDFs), and create and delete secondary indexes using Asadm. Additionally, a new privileged mode has been added to access risky commands like asinfo and the new suite of manage commands. The manage command is accompanied by a show command for users, roles, UDFs, and sindexes. These features make it easier to administer Aerospike Databases with ease.

In this tutorial, we built a simple web application using Java, Spring Boot, the Aerospike Database, and Docker. The steps involved setting up an Aerospike Database Docker container, creating a simple web Java Spring Boot server, and testing the E2E flow by simulating RESTful API requests to create, read, and delete records from the Aerospike Database using Postman. The source code for this demo can be found at aerospike-examples/simple-springboot-aerospikedemo.

Aerospike has released version 5.5, which introduces XDR Convergence support. This feature prevents concurrent updates from causing bin values to become out of sync indefinitely by using a conflict detection and resolution strategy based on last-update-time (LUT) and source id (src-id). Aerospike 5.5 also includes minor features such as the ability to specify multiple feature key files, new duplicate resolution statistics, support for boolean values in maps & lists, and systemd startup script improvements.

The Aerospike Standup Vol. 22 is a newsletter for developers, featuring blog posts, community questions, documentation updates, releases, and events from the Aerospike team. Subscribers receive updates every other week. Upcoming events include the Aerospike Digital Summit 2021 on May 4-6 with a tentative agenda available now. The deadline for talk submissions is March 15th.

The Aerospike Standup is a newsletter written by developers for developers, featuring blog posts, community questions, documentation, releases, and events from the Aerospike team. The Aerospike Digital Summit 2021 is taking place on May 4-6 with a tentative agenda available, inviting speakers to submit their talks by March 15. The newsletter aims to share updates every other week, and subscribers can receive email notifications by subscribing to the newsletter. New articles are regularly added, including release notes, and community questions and discussions are featured.

The digital transformation race is accelerating in response to increased demand for goods and services, with enterprises needing to level up their digital capabilities. Poor data management can hinder these efforts, as many digital transformations are data intensive. In 2021, three trends are emerging in data management strategies: (1) Attention and advancement on customer data profiles, driven by the shift away from third-party cookies; (2) Shrewd decisions on where workloads run, with a focus on hybrid cloud patterns for cost efficiency; and (3) Augmentation to accelerate digital transformation, allowing modern technologies to be added around existing processes and systems.

Registration is open for the Aerospike Digital Summit 2021, taking place from May 4th-6th. The theme this year is "Reimagine Real-time," with a focus on scaling real-time data initiatives. Notable keynote speakers include John Dillon, CEO of Aerospike; Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist at Canva and former Apple executive; Lior Mozel, SVP of Engineering at Cybereason; and Ella Vidra, VP of IT Ops & Engineering at Playtika. The event will feature over 40 presentations, training sessions, and workshops aimed at helping attendees learn from Aerospike product experts and customers on building modern, real-time data applications to scale their businesses.

The Aerospike Standup newsletter provides updates on blog posts, community questions, documentation, releases, and events. Upcoming events include the Aerospike Digital Summit 2021 from May 4-6 and the launch of the Developer Hub. Release notes for January include updates to various clients and Docker images. New/Updated Documentation includes information on removing Primary Keys without altering record TTLs, FAQs about node failures during quiescing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes device errors. The user summit will take place from May 4-6, with the Call for Papers open until February 15.

Aerospike's Developer Hub is a comprehensive resource center for developers to build fast, scalable, and secure applications using the Aerospike database. The hub offers tutorials, hands-on material, content such as articles and videos, links to extended ways of using Aerospike, and more. With general availability, new content like documentation for the Enterprise Edition in the cloud and tutorials for supported clients will be added regularly. Developers can access the Developer Hub at https://developer.aerospike.com/.

Aerospike Data Browser is a tool designed to enable developers to quickly browse or discover data stored in Aerospike clusters visually, along with the ability to run ANSI SQL queries. The browser leverages Presto, a highly parallel and distributed SQL query engine, and its connector for Aerospike. This allows users to view data stored in Aerospike without needing to know the schema beforehand, run SQL queries, and visualize data. The browser is dockerized and can be easily installed using the GitHub repository. It provides features such as a DB Explorer, SQL editor, notebook manager, and charting capabilities, making it an essential tool for developers working with Aerospike databases.