Overcoming 5G Data Challenges to Realize Its Potential
5G is backed by a cloud native, service-based architecture. Hale from Rakuten Mobile describes the 5G data challenges and the solutions needed to fully realize its potential.
October 22, 2020
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October 21, 2020
Service Mesh Era: Building Modern Apps with YugabyteDB and Istio
Microservices architectures are becoming the de facto way developers are thinking about how their applications are constructed. But security remains a top concern for many organizations. Given the general trends of the proliferation of threats within the production network and the increased points of privileged access, it is increasingly necessary to adopt a zero-trust network security approach for microservices architectures.
One of the most common security approaches is to set up mTLS.
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October 20, 2020
Distributed SQL Summit Recap: Mainframe Modernization
At the Distributed SQL Summit 2020, Brenesh Stanslas Flower Mary – Senior Architect, Wipro Digital, presented the talk “Monolith to Microservices.” In the talk he demonstrated how it is possible to take a large, intertwined mainframe monolith and break it down into microservices using a practical approach. The end-to-end approach he demonstrated made use of Wipro’s “moderniZ” platform which addresses the modernization (or transformation) of UIs, data, and services.
Challenges with Mainframes Today
Brenesh pointed out that although many organizations are well down the path of moving new (and some legacy applications) to the cloud or cloud-native technologies so they can take advantage of the cost savings,
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October 19, 2020
Building Serverless Applications Using Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, and YugabyteDB
Introduction to Serverless Applications
Serverless applications allow developers to run code without having to provision or manage any servers; developers can just concentrate on implementing the business logic of their applications.
As workloads move to the cloud, serverless applications are gaining tremendous popularity with developers. Serverless frameworks allow developers to program for the cloud to take advantage of elastic scaling for workloads and provide cost benefits of using pay-for-use features, only getting billed for compute time they consume.
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October 16, 2020
Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Oct 16, 2020
Welcome to this week’s 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 Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:
How to use joins in UPDATE statements
Sometimes,
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October 15, 2020
The Distributed Database Behind Twitter
Twitter is one of the world’s favorite places for people and brands to connect online. Powering a global service that helps people share everything from breaking news and entertainment to sports, politics, and everyday interests takes infrastructure that can adapt and evolve over time.
In his talk at the 2020 Distributed SQL Summit, Mehrdad Nurolahzade, engineer on the real-time infrastructure team at Twitter, walks us through the distributed database behind Twitter,
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October 13, 2020
Presentation Recap: Kubernetes as a Universal Control Plane – Joe Beda, VMware
We were delighted to have Joe Beda, one of the original creators of Kubernetes, and Principal Engineer at VMware, give the opening keynote at this year’s 2020 Distributed SQL Summit. If you weren’t able to attend, here’s the summary and playback of his keynote presentation.
Kubernetes as a Universal Control Plane
Oftentimes systems start out with efficiency in mind (as Joe states, “to try and get as much out of your computers as you possibly could“),
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October 8, 2020
Yugabyte Adopts a New Versioning System
Many users in the YugabyteDB community simply love the velocity with which new and exciting features are introduced through frequent releases. However, as more and more business-critical applications start depending on YugabyteDB as the system of record database, there is an increasing need for enterprises to operate existing versions in production longer and avoid adopting fast-moving releases which can go through radical design changes. It’s clear we have different groups of users, each with important needs: those who need to go into production now with the generally available features,
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October 5, 2020
INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring, October 2020 Edition)
Recent Highlights and Happenings
It’s time for another monthly hiring blog post from the Yugabyte team! Although 2020 remains difficult in many ways both nationally and globally, it’s our hope that sharing this information and our currently open positions may be some good news to some of you at a time when it’s needed most.
Since our last post, we have had some very exciting events and announcements, including these highlights …
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October 1, 2020
Effortless Database Installation: Unveiling the Compatibility of YugabyteDB and PostgreSQL
Discover the seamless compatibility between PostgreSQL and YugabyteDB. Learn how the installation commands overlap, including connecting to databases, creating users, schemas, and executing files from the SQL shell.