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Introducing YugabyteDB 2.7: The Most Comprehensive Coverage of Kubernetes Environments for Microservices

May 5, 2021

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Introducing YugabyteDB 2.7: The Most Comprehensive Coverage of Kubernetes Environments for Microservices

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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Distributed SQL Databases on Kubernetes Webinar Recap

April 26, 2021

By Amey Banarse

Databases Distributed SQL How To Kubernetes

Distributed SQL Databases on Kubernetes Webinar Recap

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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YSQL Development Intermediate Training Recap – April 22, 2021

April 23, 2021

By Jimmy Guerrero

Community News Databases Distributed SQL

YSQL Development Intermediate Training Recap – April 22, 2021

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…

Course Content

In this 90 min training aimed at beginner and intermediate SQL developers, we covered the following topics:

YugabyteDB review and setup
Constraints
UDFs, expressions, and operators
Indexes
Views
Triggers
Extensions

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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April 21, 2021

By Marko Rajcevic

Databases Distributed SQL How To

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – April 21, 2021

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:

Importing a Large Table Using Smaller Transactions

When first playing around with YugabyteDB many users import existing data from other databases,

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Creating a Centralized Consent Database for 80M Citizens Across 100k+ Companies

April 20, 2021

By Jimmy Guerrero

Community News Databases Distributed SQL How To

Creating a Centralized Consent Database for 80M Citizens Across 100k+ Companies

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.

A Quick Introduction to Softtech

Cem kicked things off with a quick introduction to Softtech.

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April 7, 2021

By Marko Rajcevic

Community News Databases Distributed SQL How To

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – April 7, 2021

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:

How to create client certs and propagate those on the yb-nodes using the YSQL API

There was a behavior change for the YSQL API after YugabyteDB version 2.5.2 where client certs are no longer required to authenticate to a TLS enabled cluster.

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An Adventure in Multi-Cloud with Kubernetes and Distributed Data

April 1, 2021

By Marko Rajcevic

Cloud Providers Distributed SQL How It Works Kubernetes

An Adventure in Multi-Cloud with Kubernetes and Distributed Data

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.”

Setting the Scene

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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Creating Standard Patterns to Load Data into YugabyteDB with Apache Airflow

March 25, 2021

By Jimmy Guerrero

Databases Distributed SQL How It Works

Creating Standard Patterns to Load Data into YugabyteDB with Apache Airflow

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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What’s New in YugabyteDB Docs – March 2021

March 24, 2021

By Alex Ball

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL

What’s New in YugabyteDB Docs – March 2021

Welcome to the latest edition of what’s new and improved in Yugabyte Docs. We’re always adding new and updating existing documentation to provide you with the most up-to-date information on YugabyteDB, Yugabyte Platform, and our database ecosystem.

YugabyteDB Core

We had previously launched the Explore section to help users get started with YugabyteDB. YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database that uniquely combines enterprise-grade RDBMS capabilities with the horizontal scalability and resilience of cloud native architectures.

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Fortune 500 Financial Services Company Chooses YugabyteDB to Support Microservices and Mainframe Migration Initiatives

March 23, 2021

By Amey Banarse

Customers Database Migration Distributed SQL

Fortune 500 Financial Services Company Chooses YugabyteDB to Support Microservices and Mainframe Migration Initiatives

A large, global financial services company is pursuing digital transformation initiatives across the board, with its biggest priorities focused around application modernization. Their goals were to untether from the mainframe, consolidate its numerous database technologies, and migrate to a modern microservices-oriented, cloud native architecture. Learn how they did it and the benefits they achieved.

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Course Content

Importing a Large Table Using Smaller Transactions

A Quick Introduction to Softtech

How to create client certs and propagate those on the yb-nodes using the YSQL API

Setting the Scene

YugabyteDB Core

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