The fastest Redis ever, the last release of Apache Kafka together with ZK

#1: Tech product updates of the first week of November (2 minutes)

There were 2 major updates this week from Redis and Kafka and ElasticSearch beat everyone in frequency of posting posts in their tech blog.

Major updates

• The fastest Redis ever (Redis 8.0-M02)

• The 3.9 is the last release of Apache Kafka together with ZooKeeper

  • And an essential addition: Tiered storage is now production-ready in Kafka 3.9

Upcoming release

• Kubernetes v1.32 sneak peek with the main changes of:

  • adding a resource health status to the Pod status making troubleshooting of Pod crashes easier.

  • an API removal of flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3

Product updates

• Debezium project is joining the Commonhaus Foundation

  • Other projects in the foundation that you may know of are: Hibernate, Jackson, and Quarkus

• ClickHouse has an OpenTelemetry integration and here are the highlights

• Date and Time function support for a distributed SQLite - rqlite

SaaS updates

• Jenkins Brownout on Update Center

  • The service https://updates.jenkins.io will switch its implementation to a new system during 1 day

• Introducing User Groups for InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated

• AutoOps — the popular monitoring and management product — is now integrated into Elastic Cloud

• Improving Neon’s SQL editor with (you guessed it) AI features

  • Neon is Serverless Postgres

• Datasentinel got support for PostgreSQL 17

  • Datasentinel is a cloud database monitoring and performance optimization tool

Use cases of the week

• Use a hot frozen data tier lifecycle in Elastic Cloud to optimize the cost of storing

  • Move the data you don’t need on a daily basis to the more slow but less expensive storage tier

• Redis as a Vector DB?

  • Asurion archived sub-10ms vector search response times by using Redis on AWS

How many GitHub stars have each product from today's digest

• Redis - 67k / main language - C

• Apache Kafka - 28.8k / main language - Java

• Kubernetes - 111k / main language - Go

• Debezium - 10.7k / main language - Java

• ClickHouse - 37.6k / main language - C++

• rqlite - 15.8k / main language - Go

• Jenkins - 23.2k / main language - Java

• InfluxDb - 28.9k / main language - Rust

• ElasticSearch - 1.1k / main language - Java

• Neon - 15.1k / main language - Rust