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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Oct 30, 2019
October 30, 2019
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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Oct 30, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.3 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 50 new enhancements and bug fixes.

What’s YugabyteDB? It is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner. YugabyteDB’s SQL API (YSQL) and drivers are PostgreSQL wire compatible

[#1845] YSQL: Support for TLS Server to Server Encryption

TLS encryption is now supported between yb-master and yb-tserver processes.

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YugabyteDB Community Engineering Update, Tricks and Tips – Oct 18, 2019
October 18, 2019
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YugabyteDB Community Engineering Update, Tricks and Tips – Oct 18, 2019

Welcome to this week’s community update where we recap a few interesting questions that have popped up in the last week or so on the YugabyteDB Slack channel, the Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. We’ll also review upcoming events, new blogs and documentation that has been published since the last update. Ok, let’s dive right in:

Running yb-ctl status does not give node information

Question

AndrewLiuRM over on the forums asked why the yb-ctl command doesn’t give node information when issued after a manual deployment onto a Docker container.

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Oct 14, 2019
October 14, 2019
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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Oct 14, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.1 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 36 new enhancements and bug fixes.

What’s YugabyteDB? It is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner. Yugabyte’s SQL API (YSQL) and drivers are PostgreSQL wire compatible

[#1851] YSQL: Support for Pushdown of Aggregate Queries

With the YCQL API,

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2019 Distributed SQL Summit Recap and Highlights
October 2, 2019
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2019 Distributed SQL Summit Recap and Highlights

Well, that’s a wrap! Yugabyte would like to extend a special thanks to JD and Amanda from the Postgreconf.org team, and to all the speakers from Facebook, Google, Amazon, Pivotal, Salesforce, Narvar, Plume Design and others that presented at the first-ever Distributed SQL Summit on Sept 20, 2019.

If you couldn’t make it out to this year’s event, have no fear!

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Andrew Nelson: Why I Joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate
August 21, 2019
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Andrew Nelson: Why I Joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate

I recently joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate focused on Kubernetes. I will focus on the usability and extensibility of YugabyteDB as a data platform within the Kubernetes and public cloud ecosystem. However, in broader terms, I will be able to leverage YugabyteDB as a cloud-native database that can easily deployed in multi-cloud environments. There are a few things I am looking forward to in my new role:

  • Working for another fast-growing startup
  • Being able to leverage my skills in Kubernetes
  • Learning more about a next-generation database at the ground floor
  • Working for an open-source company

Early Years

When I was graduating from college with a degree in Software Engineering,

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2019 Distributed SQL Summit Confirmed Speakers & Schedule is Live!
August 9, 2019
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2019 Distributed SQL Summit Confirmed Speakers & Schedule is Live!

YugaByte is excited to announce that speaker schedule for this year’s Distributed SQL Summit is live!

Distributed SQL Summit is a full day of talks from experts on what it takes to build, deploy and scale distributed SQL databases in the cloud and on Kubernetes.

Presented in partnership with PostgresConf, the inaugural Distributed SQL Summit is taking place on September 20, 2019 in San Jose,

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YugabyteDB Engineering & Community Update – July 19, 2019
July 19, 2019
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YugabyteDB Engineering & Community Update – July 19, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 1.3.0 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 24 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Beyond enhancements and fixes, the other big news is that we have open sourced the entire core database code! This means that previously closed features like distributed backups, data encryption and replicas are now open sourced. This also means that upcoming features like change data capture and 2 datacenter deployments will open source as well.

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Why We Changed YugabyteDB Licensing to 100% Open Source
July 16, 2019
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Why We Changed YugabyteDB Licensing to 100% Open Source

We are excited to announce that YugabyteDB is now 100% open source under the Apache 2.0 license. This means previously closed-source, commercial, enterprise features such as Distributed Backups, Data Encryption, and Read Replicas are now available in the open source project and are completely free to use. The same applies to upcoming new features like Change Data Capture and 2 Data Center Deployments. The result of this change is that we no longer have a Community Edition and an Enterprise Edition of YugabyteDB.

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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.3 with Enterprise Features as Open Source
July 16, 2019
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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.3 with Enterprise Features as Open Source

We are very excited to announce the arrival of YugabyteDB 1.3. This post will outline some of the major milestones in this release.

Enterprise Features Move To Open Source

In this release, all the enterprise features in the core DB are now available in open source under the Apache 2.0 license! Effective v1.3, there is no more EE vs CE distinction, there is just one database with all the features you want.

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