March 2021 Summaries

The Aerospike Standup newsletter for developers is released every two weeks and includes blog posts, community questions, documentation updates, releases, and upcoming events. With their annual user summit just over a month away, the team is working on creating valuable developer content. This edition celebrates the addition of Aerospike as a storage backend for Vault. Upcoming articles include Introducing Aerospike JDBC Driver by Eugene Rizhkov. The C# Client and C Client were released in March, along with updates to the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator. The team will be speaking at Developer Week and Conf42: Cloud Native conferences, as well as hosting their user summit on May 4-6.

Aerospike Standup is a developer-focused newsletter that compiles blog posts, community questions, documentation, releases, and events from the Aerospike team, with a current emphasis on preparations for their upcoming annual user summit themed "Reimagine Real-time." The newsletter highlights the integration of Aerospike as a storage backend for Vault, a contribution by Yevgeny Rizhkov, and features recent articles, such as the introduction of the Aerospike JDBC Driver by Eugene Rizhkov. It also provides updates on developer conferences where the team will present topics like AI/ML compatibility and building a Kubernetes operator for distributed databases. With the user summit approaching, the frequency of new articles may decrease, but regular biweekly updates continue, and interested readers can subscribe for email notifications.

The Aerospike Kubernetes Operator is an automated tool designed to efficiently deploy, manage, and update Aerospike clusters on Kubernetes platforms. It automates tasks such as configuration, provisioning, scaling, and recovery of applications, reducing the complexity of managing a Kubernetes deployment. The first release of the Operator supports capabilities like deploying new Aerospike clusters, scaling up or down existing ones, version upgrade/downgrade, configuring persistent storage, standardizing configurations, and monitoring cluster performance. This tool is crucial for handling modern traffic patterns and ensuring enterprise-level performance, scale, high availability, and application resilience in stateful databases running on Kubernetes.

The Aerospike Standup newsletter for developers provides updates on blog posts, community questions, documentation, releases, and events. Upcoming topics include efficient data processing with Presto and Kafka connectors, disk usage increase in all-flash systems, and Docker image updates. Subscribe to receive future updates. Community discussions have focused on disk usage and the Aerospike user summit is scheduled for May 4-6.

The Aerospike Standup is a newsletter written by developers for developers, bringing together various content such as blog posts, community questions, documentation, releases, and events. The summit's agenda is already live on the website, featuring discussions around disk usage and efficient data processing methods using Presto and Kafka connectors. New articles have been published on creating insightful dashboards with Aerospike, Tableau, and Presto, as well as a message transformer for Aerospike Connect for Kafka. Additionally, updates to documentation, release notes, and upcoming events have been shared, including the user summit taking place on May 4-6. Users can subscribe to receive updates via email every other week.

The Aerospike JDBC driver is a Java API for database-independent connectivity between Java and a wide range of databases, including Aerospike, which is a fast and durable No-SQL database. The driver requires Java 8 and supports SQL statements such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE, with some limitations, and can be used to interact with Aerospike using SQL without relying on UDFs or compute-intensive components. To get started, install the driver, specify the JDBC URL, and load the class, then use a connection to execute queries and retrieve results. The driver is designed to be simple and easy to start, without workarounds for unsupported features, and can be used with SQL client tools like DBeaver to browse and manipulate data in Aerospike.

Modern data strategies are crucial to underpin digital identity and authentication practices, which are essential for the success of digital transformation. The coming year will see a significant leap forward in digital customer experiences as enterprises accelerate their digital transformations. Rapid access to accurate data is vital for providing information, recommendations, and critical identity checks needed for contactless transactions. Modern data architectures can help make authentication simple, accurate, and frictionless while maintaining security and privacy. Advances in big data allow the use of multiple data points instantly for confirming identity, making passwordless methods more viable. Forward-looking financial services companies already leverage vast amounts of data to quickly pinpoint identity, and sophisticated database technology can help identify anomalies and false positives in real-time. The future of business is based on leveraging data, with privacy legislation playing a significant role in ensuring proper data usage and compliance.

The Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector allows streaming from Apache Kafka to Aerospike Database Enterprise Edition, enabling low-latency and high-throughput pipelines. The connector can be extended with a message transformer, which is a custom piece of code that transforms incoming Kafka messages into Aerospike records after performing operations or transformations on them. This feature enables users to perform complex operations on maps or lists in Kafka records before writing them as Aerospike records, develop custom code for functionality not natively supported by the connector, filter out sensitive data from records, create an Aerospike record with bins generated by tweaking Kafka message key/value, and more. The message transformer is thread-safe, easy to use, and flexible, allowing users to inject objects such as InboundMessageTransformerConfig and/or AerospikeReader. It can be deployed by copying the .jar file to the Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector directory and configuring it in the `aerospike-kafka-inbound.yml` file.

The Aerospike Standup newsletter provides updates every other week, including blog posts, community questions, documentation, releases, and events. In this edition, they celebrate the makeover of asadm, a tool for monitoring and configuring Aerospike. They also invite feedback on the updated tool at [email protected]. Additionally, updates to the Developer Hub are highlighted, along with an invitation to sign up for their user summit. The newsletter also includes questions from the community, news articles, release notes, and upcoming events such as the user summit taking place on May 4-6.

The Aerospike Standup newsletter provides updates on blog posts, community questions, documentation, releases, and events written by the Aerospike team. The newsletter is released every other week and covers various topics including a recent update to asadm, a tool for monitoring and configuring Aerospike, with detailed release notes and a walk-through available. The newsletter also features new articles, upcoming events such as a user summit on May 4-6, and releases of various tools including the Node.js client and Go client.