Why I Joined Yugabyte as Director of Events and Campaigns
Read this post by our Director of Events and Campaigns, Bronwyn Campbell, to see why she chose Yugabyte and why you should too!
October 15, 2021
Open Source
June 8, 2021
Why I Joined Yugabyte as a Product Marketing Manager
In this blog post, our product marketer for YugabyteDB’s database-as-a-service, Gavin Johnson, explains why he chose Yugabyte over dozens of other companies.
May 25, 2021
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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May 7, 2021
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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March 4, 2021
How my Wish to Contribute to Open Source Lead me To Join Yugabyte
Databases are omnipresent
Back in 2016 I started at Nutanix, fresh after finishing my graduate studies. This was barely a couple of weeks after two of Nutanix’s employees, Karthik and Kannan, left to start Yugabyte with Mikhail Bautin. They were still the subject of a few watercooler chats at Nutanix, mainly because of their bold decision to enter the database market, one that is definitely not known for being easy.
It became apparent to me why databases are hard.
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February 25, 2021
YugabyteDB: Reimagining the RDBMS for the Cloud
Perspectives from 5 years of building a cloud native database
YugabyteDB just turned 5 years old, and I cannot help but reminisce about our journey in building this database over the last half-decade. I vividly remember the genesis of the YugabyteDB project, which started with Kannan, Mikhail, and myself meeting for lunch at a restaurant to discuss the future of cloud native databases. After iterating on the idea over a number of such discussions,
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December 22, 2020
The Planned 2021 YugabyteDB Roadmap
Our mission at Yugabyte is to build the default distributed SQL database for cloud native applications in a multi cloud world. We recently announced the general availability of Yugabyte 2.5, which brought new features like Geo-Partitioning and Enterprise-Grade security features in addition to major enhancements in multi-region deployments and performance – while also improving on high availability, horizontal scalability, and ease of managing the database. The Yugabyte team is currently working on even more exciting features,
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December 14, 2020
What’s New in YugabyteDB Docs – December 2020
Welcome to this latest post on what’s new and improved in YugabyteDB Docs! We’re continually adding to and updating the documentation to give you the information you need to make the most out of YugabyteDB.
As a reminder, YugabyteDB provides two distributed SQL APIs:
- Yugabyte Structured Query Language (YSQL) is a fully-relational, PostgreSQL-compatible API.
- Yugabyte Cloud Query Language (YCQL) is a semi-relational API with document data modeling and has its roots in the Apache Cassandra Query Language (CQL).
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November 18, 2020
YugabyteDB Open Source Community Update – November 2020
We just released YugabyteDB 2.5, and open source software like this doesn’t happen without an awesome open source community backing it. As the year draws to a close, we’d like to take the opportunity to call out some YugabyteDB community highlights from 2020.
Our commitment to open source
First, it is worth restating that YugabyteDB doesn’t pay lip service to open source like other database projects. We don’t trick you into downloading software that has time-bombed enterprise features that you can “try,” but ultimately have to “buy”.
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August 18, 2020
My Time as a Yugabyte Software Engineering Intern
February – A Unique Introduction
It was late February, and I had spent the past several weeks learning everything I could about the distributed database ecosystem. As an intern on the Investment Team at 8VC, I had gotten the chance to work on technical due diligence under Partner & CTO Bhaskar Ghosh, taking a multitude of pitches every week and constantly shifting contexts. One of those companies speaking with us was Yugabyte,
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