The Aerospike Standup Vol. 18 is a newsletter for developers that covers various updates and resources related to the Aerospike database system. It includes answers to community questions, such as handling different disk sizes in a cluster or troubleshooting warnings in logs after node restarts. News articles include topics like the power of Aerospike expressions in version 5.2+. Release notes for November and December are provided, along with updates on Ruby, C#, and Java clients. New/Updated documentation includes information about Aerospike Connect for Presto (beta) and monitoring client traffic and connections to Aerospike. Upcoming events include a virtual meetup on building infrastructure for ML applications in NYC and a virtual meetup on high availability in Tel Aviv.