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June 10, 2021

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – June 10th, 2021

Welcome back to our bi-weekly tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been published recently. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub, or Stack Overflow. Let’s dive in:

Connection Pooling with YugabyteDB

When looking to pool your connections with YugabyteDB many users take a look at PgBouncer,

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June 2, 2021

By Frits Hoogland

Databases Distributed SQL How To

The YugabyteDB Vagrant Box

Using Vagrant, anyone running Windows, Linux or Mac OS X can run and test drive a YugabyteDB cluster without the need to install and configure YugabyteDB. Plus, you can start over if you want to test something different in a matter of minutes, or scale up the cluster, etc.

Please mind that the Vagrant images are non-official images for demo and test purposes, and not configured nor representative for performance.

This is how it works (Mac OS X):

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People and Potential: Why I Joined Yugabyte

May 25, 2021

By John Meehan

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL Open Source

People and Potential: Why I Joined Yugabyte

When I first started my graduate studies in databases in 2012, I remember reading a freshly-minted paper that was making big waves in the DB community: Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database. I remember being blown away by the scale of the problems being tackled. Synchronizing a globally-distributed database while maintaining a usable transaction latency seemed an impossible task, one that comes with challenges that only exist on the global scale. As a naive grad student,

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The Next Chapter for Falarica – Building the Default Database for the Cloud

May 19, 2021

By Neeraj Kumar

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL

The Next Chapter for Falarica – Building the Default Database for the Cloud

Hi there…a big hello from all of us at Falarica!!!

It is with immense pleasure and great pride that we, Falarica.io, decided to join hands with Yugabyte to build great data products together. Thanks to the entire Yugabyte team for extending a very warm welcome to us. And of course a very big thank you to the entire Falarica team for their hard work in creating considerable value in a short span of time.

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – May 17th, 2021

May 17, 2021

By Marko Rajcevic

Databases Distributed SQL How To

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – May 17th, 2021

Setting Firewall Rules for Cloud Deployments

When deploying a YugabyteDB cluster on a cloud,

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The Future of Databases – Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2021

May 11, 2021

By Jimmy Guerrero

Community News Databases Distributed SQL

The Future of Databases – Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2021

At this year’s Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2021, Dhaval Jagani from Infosys presented the talk, “The Future of Databases.” In this post you can find a summary of the talk, some of the presentation highlights, as well as links to this talk and others from the event.

New Data Trends and Demands

Dhaval kicked things off by exploring the data trends he’s spotted from his vantage at Infosys,

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YugabyteDB Open Source Community Update – May 2021

May 7, 2021

By Jimmy Guerrero

Community News Databases Distributed SQL Open Source

YugabyteDB Open Source Community Update – May 2021

We started off 2021 strong with exciting announcements, including:

The launch of Yugabyte University including free training and certification options
A successful Distributed SQL Summit Asia event, with 35 amazing speakers across 3 days
A $48M round of funding to accelerate all distributed SQL activities across the board
YugabyteDB turns 5 years old and Karthik Ranganathan, CTO and Co-Founder,

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Introducing YugabyteDB 2.7: The Most Comprehensive Coverage of Kubernetes Environments for Microservices

May 5, 2021

By Suda Srinivasan

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL Release Announcements

Introducing YugabyteDB 2.7: The Most Comprehensive Coverage of Kubernetes Environments for Microservices

YugabyteDB is the distributed SQL database of choice for building mission-critical microservices that deliver new customer experiences, improve operations, and drive innovation. We aim to make your experience of deploying and running YugabyteDB on any infrastructure seamless, be it Kubernetes, VMs, or bare metal across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.

With our latest release, YugabyteDB 2.7, we have added updates to give developers the scalability and resilience they need from systems of record for their microservices.

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Distributed SQL Databases on Kubernetes Webinar Recap

April 26, 2021

By Amey Banarse

Databases Distributed SQL How To Kubernetes

Distributed SQL Databases on Kubernetes Webinar Recap

We recently presented the live webinar on how to run distributed SQL databases on Kubernetes. This session focused on the design of stateful workloads in Kubernetes, the architecture and deployment of YugabyteDB in Kubernetes, and best practices to run cloud native stateful workloads with a real-world example.

In this blog post, we provide the playback recording and slides, and recap some highlights from the presentation.

If you have additional questions about running the YugabyteDB distributed SQL database on Kubernetes,

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YSQL Development Intermediate Training Recap – April 22, 2021

April 23, 2021

By Jimmy Guerrero

Community News Databases Distributed SQL

YSQL Development Intermediate Training Recap – April 22, 2021

Yesterday we delivered our free “YSQL Development Intermediate” community training and certification class. If you weren’t able to make it, here’s what you missed…

Course Content

In this 90 min training aimed at beginner and intermediate SQL developers, we covered the following topics:

YugabyteDB review and setup
Constraints
UDFs, expressions, and operators
Indexes
Views
Triggers
Extensions

We worked through over 40 exercises that showed how developers can immediately leverage their PostgreSQL knowledge and apply it to YugabyteDB.

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Connection Pooling with YugabyteDB

Setting Firewall Rules for Cloud Deployments

New Data Trends and Demands

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