May 2020 Summaries

This tutorial provides a quickstart guide for using Redis as a cache for your Node.js Express app. It demonstrates how to create two apps, one with Redis caching and another without, to show the benefits of Redis in terms of speed and efficiency. The API used is Alpha Vantage's Bitcoin health information API. The tutorial also covers setting up Redis, connecting it to your server, creating a new route for caching data, running benchmarks, and moving forward with more complex projects.

Aiven now supports Apache Kafka version 2.5 as a fully managed service, allowing users to launch a managed Kafka service on any of their supported clouds and regions. This release enhances support for Kafka's administrative API, deprecates ZooKeeper, and includes features to support exactly once semantics (EOS). Users can get Aiven for Apache Kafka 2.5 by selecting '2.5' in the drop-down menu from the Kafka service box or using the appropriate switch from the Aiven REST API, command line interface, or Terraform tooling.