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Develop IoT Apps with Confluent Kafka, KSQL, Spring Boot & Distributed SQL
May 23, 2019
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Develop IoT Apps with Confluent Kafka, KSQL, Spring Boot & Distributed SQL

In our previous post “5 Reasons Why Apache Kafka Needs a Distributed SQL Database”, we highlighted why Kafka-based data services need a distributed SQL database like YugabyteDB as their highly scalable, long-term persistent data store. In this post, we show how Confluent Kafka, KSQL, Spring Boot and YugabyteDB can be integrated to develop an application for managing Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensor data.

The Scenario – IoT-Enabled Fleet Management

A trucking company wants to track its fleet of IoT-enabled vehicles that are delivering shipments across the country.

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Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with YugabyteDB’s Helm Chart
April 10, 2019
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Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with YugabyteDB’s Helm Chart

The glory days of the heavy-weight hypervisor are slowly fading away, and in the last few years, containerization of applications and services is the new reality. With containerization, enterprises can prototype, deploy, and meet scale demands more quickly. To systematically and efficiently manage these large-scale deployments, enterprises have bet on technologies like Kubernetes (aka k8s), a powerful container orchestrator, to get the job done. Kubernetes was originally developed by Google, but it has been open sourced since 2014 and is today developed by a large community of contributors.

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How to Monitor YugabyteDB with Prometheus on Docker?
February 12, 2019
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How to Monitor YugabyteDB with Prometheus on Docker?

Observability is absolutely vital to operating business-critical data infrastructure at scale. This is why observability is not an afterthought in the YugabyteDB architecture. Every layer of YugabyteDB exposes metrics in the Prometheus format at the /prometheus-metrics endpoint. Given that Prometheus is essentially the de-facto standard for build-your-own infrastructure monitoring and alerting, you can get started with monitoring YugabyteDB in almost no time.

This post details how to install and configure both YugabyteDB and Prometheus on Docker so that you can run simple queries on the Prometheus UI.

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How to Migrate Data from Cassandra or MySQL to YugabyteDB?
January 23, 2019
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How to Migrate Data from Cassandra or MySQL to YugabyteDB?

If you work with databases, at some point you are going to need to get data in and out them using a format that can be consumed by a completely different system. YugabyteDB makes use of CSV files to make this as easy as possible. The CSV format is arguably the most universally portable way to get data migrations accomplished.

TL;DR – YugabyteDB makes use of Cassandra’s COPY FROM command and a forked version of Cassandra’s Bulk Loader to get data into the system.

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YugaByte Database Engineering Update – Nov 27, 2018
November 27, 2018
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YugaByte Database Engineering Update – Nov 27, 2018

Lots has happened since our last engineering update about 3 months ago. Below are some of the highlights.

PostgreSQL API Updates & PostgresConf Silicon Valley Wrap-Up

We have made a lot of progress on YSQL, the PostgreSQL compatible distributed SQL API for YugabyteDB! You can also read about YSQL architecture which covers how distributed SQL is implemented in YugabyteDB.

We were at the first ever PostgresConf Silicon Valley in October 2018.

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Distributed Backups in Multi-Region YugabyteDB Clusters
November 19, 2018
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Distributed Backups in Multi-Region YugabyteDB Clusters

Our post Getting Started with Distributed Backups in YugabyteDB details the core architecture powering distributed backups in YugabyteDB. It also highlights a few backup/restore operations in a single region, multi-AZ cluster. In this post, we perform distributed backups in a multi-region YugabyteDB cluster and verify that we achieve performance characteristics similar to those observed in a single region cluster.

We configured a 9 node cluster with 3 availability zones across 2 regions and repeated the benchmark introduced in the post.

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Getting Started with Distributed Backups in YugabyteDB
November 19, 2018
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Getting Started with Distributed Backups in YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB is a distributed database with a Google Spanner-inspired strongly consistent replication architecture that is purpose-built for high availability and high performance. This architecture allows administrators to place replicas in independent fault domains, which can be either availability zones or racks in a single region or different regions altogether. These types of multi-AZ or multi-region deployments have the immediate advantage of guaranteeing organizations a higher order of resilience in the event of a zone or region failure.

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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Public IPs to Simplify Multi or Hybrid Cloud Database Deployments
October 2, 2018
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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Public IPs to Simplify Multi or Hybrid Cloud Database Deployments

Welcome to another post in our ongoing series that highlights new features from the latest 1.1 release announced last week. Today we are going to look at the importance of public IP addresses and hostnames in simplifying multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.

In modern cloud deployments, servers often have a combination of private IP addresses (used in the private LAN and often the IP address of the network interface on the server),

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