Hi, Igniters! As 2021 comes to a close, let's review and celebrate the amazing community-driven contributions that made Apache Ignite better throughout the year:
— The community produced 2 releases 2.10 and 2.11 (2.12 is on its way) which introduced: ‒ Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) technology - the Cache Key Rotation machinery. From now on the Apache Ignite fully satisfies the PCI DSS[1], which requires the protection of stored data at rest; ‒ Significant improvements to Ignite thin clients: Added async API, Kubernetes discovery, extended transaction, cluster and SQL API for various platforms, added Continuous Query support, partition awareness, and more; ‒ Change Data Capture (CDC) support, which allows users to build their deployments on a new type of architecture - asynchronous data replication between clusters; ‒ IndexQuery API, which enables building fast index queries over build-in Ignite indexes. Unlike SQL, it works without the overhead for queries parsing and planning — Ignite 3.0 Alphas were released [2][3] — We welcomed 10 new committers and 1 PMC member Check and celebrate the most active code contributors here: ‒ Core and Documentation[4] ‒ Extensions[5] ‒ Ignite website[6] — Downloads for 2021 exceeded downloads for 2020 by 65%, with hundreds of thousands of downloads per month. — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ranked Ignite second on the Top 5 Big Data user lists, third on the Top 5 Big Data dev lists, second on the Top 5 user lists, and third on the Top 5 repos by size [7][8] — In DB-Engines Ranking[9], Apache Ignite gained nine points (December 2021 versus December 2020). — The Apache Ignite website was updated and improved [10]. — The community organized 13 Ignite meetups[11]. — Ignite Summit[12] was hosted first in May and then in November—with 33 speakers, 8 pre-conference training, and 700 attendees. — Fifty-eight developers contributed to Project Awareness by creating blogs, tutorials, and demos and by presenting at online and offline events worldwide. — The Recognition service to track non-code Project Awareness contributions was launched[13]. I’ve recorded a video about the service for you[14] That’s what we as a community did in 2021. Impressive, isn’t it? Now, I’ll list 2021’s 10 most active non-code contributors, all of whom contributed to spreading the word about Ignite: Val Kulichenko Denis Magda Alexander Kozhenkov Stephen Darlington Pavel Tupitsyn Anton Vinogradov Courtney Robinson Maxim Muzafarov Nikolay Izhikov Semyon Danilov We are all proud of you! You did an outstanding job. My team and I want others to recognize your contributions! So, we created badges[15] that you can add to your LinkedIn profile (or to any other profile) to emphasize your role! Please check your emails. Have a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and stay awesome! Next year, we will rock again together! Cheers, Kseniya Apache Ignite PMC, Director of Community Relations at GridGain [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard [2]https://github.com/apache/ignite-3/ [3]Ignite 3.0 Alpha 3 Community Gathering recording https://youtu.be/XanOleiBLlU [4]Ignite Core & Docs top-contributors 2021 https://github.com/apache/ignite/graphs/contributors?from=2021-01-03&to=2021-12-22&type=c [5]Ignite Extensions top-contributors 2021 https://github.com/apache/ignite-extensions/graphs/contributors?from=2021-01-01&to=2021-12-22&type=c [6]Ignite website top-contributors 2021 https://github.com/apache/ignite-website/graphs/contributors?from=2021-01-01&to=2021-12-22&type=c [7] https://www.apache.org/foundation/docs/FY2021AnnualReport.pdf [8] https://blogs.apache.org/ignite/entry/apache-ignite-momentum-highlights-from [9] https://db-engines.com/en/ranking [10] https://ignite.apache.org/ [11] https://ignite.apache.org/events.html#meetups [12] https://ignite-summit.org/ [13] https://recognition.gridgain.com/main?date=this-year [14] https://youtu.be/AmO4dNdZHb8 [15] https://www.credly.com/org/gridgain/badge/ignite-project-awareness-top-contributor-2021
