Chirag Narang, Author at Yugabyte

January 11, 2021

A Practical Multi-Cloud Distributed SQL Strategy for 2021

In order to meet the needs of the growing demand of businesses, many global enterprises are choosing cloud infrastructure from multiple providers like AWS, Azure, Google, or private data centers. According to a Gartner survey of public cloud users, 81% of respondents are already using multiple clouds. Leveraging multiple clouds to support data infrastructure provides these benefits:

Reduced operating and infrastructure costs by avoiding vendor lock-in.
Improved application resilience and redundancy with geographically distributed data centers.

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Introducing Yugabyte Platform on Azure – Beta Release Announcement

November 12, 2020

By Chirag Narang

Databases Distributed SQL Microsoft Azure

Introducing Yugabyte Platform on Azure – Beta Release Announcement

We have been hard at work expanding our ecosystem to be available across major cloud infrastructure providers so we can power applications in any cloud or across clouds. In addition to deploying the Yugabyte Platform, our commercial database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering, natively in AWS and GCP, we’re excited to announce the beta release of the Yugabyte Platform on Microsoft Azure. While it’s true Yugabyte Platform can already be deployed on Azure as an on premise cloud provider,

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Service Mesh Era: Building Modern Apps with YugabyteDB and Istio

October 21, 2020

By Chirag Narang

Databases Distributed SQL How To Kubernetes

Service Mesh Era: Building Modern Apps with YugabyteDB and Istio

Microservices architectures are becoming the de facto way developers are thinking about how their applications are constructed. But security remains a top concern for many organizations. Given the general trends of the proliferation of threats within the production network and the increased points of privileged access, it is increasingly necessary to adopt a zero-trust network security approach for microservices architectures.

One of the most common security approaches is to set up mTLS.

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October 8, 2020

By Chirag Narang

Community News Company News How It Works Release Announcements

Yugabyte Adopts a New Versioning System

Many users in the YugabyteDB community simply love the velocity with which new and exciting features are introduced through frequent releases. However, as more and more business-critical applications start depending on YugabyteDB as the system of record database, there is an increasing need for enterprises to operate existing versions in production longer and avoid adopting fast-moving releases which can go through radical design changes. It’s clear we have different groups of users, each with important needs: those who need to go into production now with the generally available features,

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Heroku Add-on for Yugabyte Cloud Now Available in Public Beta

September 17, 2020

By Chirag Narang

Cloud Providers Databases Distributed SQL GraphQL

Heroku Add-on for Yugabyte Cloud Now Available in Public Beta

Today, we are pleased to announce the public beta release of the Heroku Yugabyte Cloud add-on. With new accessibility to the Heroku marketplace, the process of deploying a fully-managed distributed SQL database in the cloud is now radically simple. For those of you who are new to distributed SQL, YugabyteDB is a Google Spanner-inspired, cloud native distributed SQL database that is 100% open source. It puts a premium on high performance, data resilience,

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Author: Chirag Narang

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