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How to Set Up a Scalable and Highly-Available GraphQL API in Minutes

April 21, 2022

Databases Distributed SQL Ecosystem Integrations GraphQL

How to Set Up a Scalable and Highly-Available GraphQL API in Minutes

A modern GraphQL API layer for cloud native applications needs to possess two characteristics: horizontal scalability and high availability.

Horizontal scalability adds more machines to your API infrastructure, whereas vertical scalability adds more CPUs, RAM, and other resources to an existing machine that runs the API layer. While vertical scalability works to a certain extent, the horizontally scalable API layer can scale beyond the capacity of a single machine.

When it comes to high availability,

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New Product Names: YugabyteDB Managed and YugabyteDB Anywhere

April 15, 2022

By Michael Haag

Company News Databases Distributed SQL

New Product Names: YugabyteDB Managed and YugabyteDB Anywhere

Today, we are announcing new names for our product offerings that were previously referred to as Yugabyte Platform and Yugabyte Cloud. The features and capabilities of these products aren’t changing. However, we hope the new names better capture their underlying features and benefits.

We realized that our previous product names did not properly communicate our vision for the product nor easily identify what our products do. But don’t worry, both YugabyteDB and our company name,

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Retail Application Migration: Lessons Learned Moving from On-Prem to Cloud Native

April 14, 2022

By Denis Magda

Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL

Retail Application Migration: Lessons Learned Moving from On-Prem to Cloud Native

Recently, I came across a sample e-commerce application that demonstrates how to use Next.js, GraphQL engine, PostgreSQL, and a few other frameworks to build a modern web application. The application supports basic e-commerce capabilities such as product inventory and order management, recommendation system, and checkout function. This made me curious as to how much effort it would take to complete a retail application migration from an on-premise to cloud native solution. So I decided to try.

April 8, 2022

By Priyanshi Gupta

Databases Distributed SQL Ecosystem Integrations How To Open Source

Using Ebean ORM with YugabyteDB

Ebean is a Java-based Object–Relational Mapping (ORM) application. It is more user-friendly and understandable than traditional ORM tools, such as Hibernate. It achieves this by employing a session-less design that eliminates the concepts of detached/attached beans as well as the difficulties related with flushing/clearing.

Even better, Ebean supports YugabyteDB, a 100% open source, distributed SQL database built to accelerate cloud native agility, lower costs, and reduce risks without vendor lock-in.

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Five Benefits to Running a Distributed SQL Database in Kubernetes

April 7, 2022

By Amey Banarse

Databases Distributed SQL Kubernetes Open Source

Five Benefits to Running a Distributed SQL Database in Kubernetes

A distributed SQL database is a single logical relational database deployed on a cluster of servers. The database automatically replicates and distributes data across multiple servers. These databases are strongly consistent and support consistency across availability and geographic zones in the cloud.

At a minimum, a distributed SQL database has the following characteristics:

A SQL API for accessing and manipulating data and objects
Automatic distribution of data across nodes in a cluster
Automatic replication of data in a strongly consistent manner
Support for distributed query execution so clients do not need to know about the underlying distribution of data
Support for distributed ACID transactions

But should you run a distributed SQL database in Kubernetes?

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Securing YugabyteDB: Part 2 – Client-to-Server Encryption in Transit

April 4, 2022

By Sanketh Indarapu

Databases Distributed SQL Open Source PostgreSQL

Securing YugabyteDB: Part 2 – Client-to-Server Encryption in Transit

In the first post in this series, we covered how to secure YugabyteDB’s internal RPC protocol using the TLS encryption protocol, also referred to as server-to-server encryption in transit. In this post, we secure the communication between SQL clients and the PostgresQL query interface of YugabyteDB, also called client-to-server encryption in transit.

YugabyteDB—a 100% open source, distributed SQL database built to accelerate cloud native agility—stores important user and customer data at an organization.

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Achieving PCI DSS Compliance with YugabyteDB

March 31, 2022

By Cyrus Wadia

Company News Databases Distributed SQL

Achieving PCI DSS Compliance with YugabyteDB

Welcome back to our blog series about how different compliance and regulatory frameworks work and how YugabyteDB can be an essential part of a company’s compliance efforts. In this third installment, we focus on the PCI Security Standards Council’s Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). More specifically, we reveal how companies can use YugabyteDB to enable compliance with certain key PCI DSS requirements.

For further details, read our recently published Yugabyte PCI DSS Compliance Guide.

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Automation Workflows: Using GitOps for YugabyteDB with Argo CD and Helm

March 31, 2022

By Srinivasa Vasu

Databases Distributed SQL How To Open Source

Automation Workflows: Using GitOps for YugabyteDB with Argo CD and Helm

GitOps is an operational framework for declarative-driven systems such as Kubernetes. More specifically, it provides a set of best practices that converge the runtime state of the services with the declarative state defined in Git. On the other hand, Argo CD is a declarative, continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Argo CD follows the GitOps pattern of using Git repositories as the source of truth for defining the desired application state. Both tools can be used for automation workflows.

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Performing Flexible IO Testing in YugabyteDB

March 18, 2022

By Frits Hoogland

Databases Distributed SQL Open Source PostgreSQL

Performing Flexible IO Testing in YugabyteDB

ybio is a PL/pgSQL based load generator for PostgreSQL and YSQL. This YugabyteDB-specific IO testing toolkit performs flexible IO testing to specific parts of the YugabyteDB infrastructure with no client installation. And because this toolkit is PL/pgSQL-based, it can also work on native PostgreSQL.

ybio is strongly inspired by Kevin Closson’s SLOB and pgio. Yugabyte Developer Advocate Franck Pachot took pgio and turned it into ybio.

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March 11, 2022

By Lakshmi Suresh

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL Open Source

Three Reasons Why I Joined Yugabyte APJ

Hello Everyone! I am Lakshmi, a tech product marketing intern for the Yugabyte Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) team. It has been my first month working at Yugabyte and I am thankful for the opportunity. Beyond my internship, I am a final year student at the NUS Business School in Singapore, specializing in Business Analytics.

A bit about me

Prior to joining Yugabyte APJ, I had always been interested in the world of startups.

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