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September 2, 2021

Spring Data YugabyteDB – Getting Started!

Spring Data modules are widely used Spring Framework projects for implementing database access in Java applications. Spring Data provides consistent and familiar APIs for querying the data by supporting Data Repository and Template methods, reducing the boilerplate code required for establishing database connection and queries.

For developers and architects, the standard set of APIs provided by Spring Data abstracts away the need to learn the database-specific query language, reducing ramp-up time and increasing developer velocity.

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September 1, 2021

By Suda Srinivasan

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL

Announcing Spring Data YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB is the database of choice for building stateful cloud native apps that require resilience and scale. YugabyteDB offers Spring developers an easy way to deploy a transactional, resilient and geo-distributed database in their application stack from the outset, while also providing flexibility and scalability as requirements change. The Spring community has always been a major influence on what we build at Yugabyte. Many of our customers rely on the immensely popular Spring Boot framework to build microservices.

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Connecting a Spring Boot Application to YugabyteDB Managed and Deploying It on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

August 27, 2021

By Suda Srinivasan

Amazon Web Services How To Kubernetes YugabyteDB Managed

Connecting a Spring Boot Application to YugabyteDB Managed and Deploying It on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Spring Boot is an extremely popular framework for building cloud native applications. It makes configuring an application easy and offers lots of starters to get you off the ground quickly. Each Spring Boot application is stand-alone and self-contained, which makes them easy to deploy in a distributed fashion – to containers or, even better, on Kubernetes.

YugabyteDB Managed (formerly Yugabyte Cloud) is a perfect match for Spring Boot applications,

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Schema Versioning in YugabyteDB Using Flyway

August 25, 2021

By Amogh Shetkar

Databases How To YugabyteDB Anywhere

Schema Versioning in YugabyteDB Using Flyway

Introduction

As developers, many of us are aware of source versioning which helps us easily track and manage changes to the source code of our applications. Schema versioning is to databases what source versioning is to the applications. It helps track and manage the changes to the databases that our applications rely on.

In this blog post, we will talk about using Flyway – one of the most popular tools that simplify schema versioning for databases –

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – August 18th, 2021

August 18, 2021

By Marko Rajcevic

Databases Distributed SQL How To

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – August 18th, 2021

Welcome back to our bi-weekly tips and tricks blog where I have the pleasure of recapping some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. I had a month long hiatus this summer, so we are making it up by adding an extra entry into this week’s edition. As always, this blog series would not be possible without all of the behind the scenes work done by Yugabeings such as Dorian Hoxha and Frits Hoogland.

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Announcing DSS ’21: Third Annual Distributed SQL Summit

August 17, 2021

By Bron Campbell

Community News Company News Distributed SQL

Announcing DSS ’21: Third Annual Distributed SQL Summit

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the third annual Distributed SQL Summit! DSS 2021 will happen on September 21-23, bringing together the YugabyteDB open source user community, customers, partners and industry thought leaders to explore opportunities and experiences of embracing modern cloud native data architectures. We are planning sessions and workshops that will dive into use cases, technologies, and best practices for adopting distributed SQL databases for any app at any scale across any cloud.

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August 13, 2021

By Sanyam Singhal

How To

Using Sequelize with YugabyteDB

Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM tool that allows us to interact with databases using javascript instead of SQL. In simple terms, Object Relational Mapping is a process for accessing a relational database using object-oriented languages like javascript. For more information on the features in Sequelize, you can check out their documentation site.

Sequelize Node.js package already has support for databases like Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.

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August 4, 2021

By Yogesh Mahajan

Community News Company News Databases Release Announcements

Announcing YugabyteDB 2.6

Yugabyte is on a mission to build the default database for cloud native applications and simplify operational data infrastructure. Our latest release, YugabyteDB 2.6, is a big step forward towards that goal. YugabyteDB 2.6 includes significant enhancements to the open source database and our self-managed DBaaS offering, Yugabyte Platform. These enhancements, including point in time recovery (PITR), default encryption in transit, availability of Yugabyte Platform on Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware Tanzu, and Yugabyte Platform high availability,

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YugabyteDB Open Source Community Spotlight – July 2021

July 29, 2021

By Gavin Johnson

Community News Databases

YugabyteDB Open Source Community Spotlight – July 2021

The Yugabyte community is always active and its members are constantly having interesting conversations and making valuable contributions. We spotlight members of the community to recognize their contributions to making the Yugabyte community a great place.

Radek Gruchalski, Managing Director & Software Engineer @ Klarrio GmbH

GitHub: https://github.com/radekg/, LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/radgruchalski,

Blog: https://gruchalski.com/

If you’re on the Yugabyte community Slack often,

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Connecting to YugabyteDB with Arctype, a Collaborative SQL Client

July 23, 2021

By Franck Pachot

Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL

Connecting to YugabyteDB with Arctype, a Collaborative SQL Client

YugabyteDB is PostgreSQL compatible. It uses the same protocol and SQL layer as PostgreSQL. This makes YugabyteDB compatible with a majority of database tools, because PostgreSQL is the most popular open source database on the planet. Here is an example with Arctype, a user-friendly collaborative SQL client to query and visualize data.

Setting up a database connection

1. I went to https://arctype.com/ and downloaded the client for Windows.

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