Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native
We started off 2021 strong with exciting announcements, including:
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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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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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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…
In this 90 min training aimed at beginner and intermediate SQL developers, we covered the following topics:
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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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 get into it:
When first playing around with YugabyteDB many users import existing data from other databases,
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At this year’s Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2021, Cetin Yalcin Gulec, Shivam Arora, and Cem Aladogan from Softtech presented the talk, “Creating a Centralized Commercial Consent Database for 80M Citizens Across 100k+ Companies.” 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.
Cem kicked things off with a quick introduction to Softtech.
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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 since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub, or Stack Overflow. Let’s dive right in:
There was a behavior change for the
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It’s been an exciting time so far this year since our last hiring post. Yugabyte continues to hire across all roles in all regions! In this month’s post we’ll share with you recent company happenings, introduce a new diversity and inclusion program that we’re incredibly excited about, introduce a member of the team so you can “meet” some of your potential new coworkers, and share with you current job openings within Yugabyte and in the broader YugabyteDB community.
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At this year’s Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2021, Leon Kuperman from CAST AI presented the talk, “An Adventure in Multi-Cloud with Kubernetes and Distributed Data.”
CAST AI is an AI-driven cloud optimization platform for Kubernetes that helps companies cut their cloud bill and prevent downtime. In the presentation, Leon walks through how to deploy a highly available YugaybteDB cluster across three cloud providers (AWS,
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At this year’s Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2021, Viraj Parekh and Pete DeJoy from Astronomer presented the talk, “Creating Standard Patterns to Load Data in YugabyteDB with Apache Airflow.”
Apache Airflow is an open source workflow orchestrator that is used by data teams of all sizes. Airflow is trusted by organizations like Marriott, RBC, Zapier, and Sonos. Given its flexible nature, Airflow is used to interact with everything from legacy on-prem systems to distributed,
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