YugabyteDB Friday Tech Talks

YFTTs take place weekly on Fridays at 9:30 am – 10 am PT

The aim of the YugabyteDB Friday Tech Talks (YFTT) is to share information and spark conversation about distributed SQL and YugabyteDB. YFTTs give the database community the chance to interact live with the engineers, dev advocates, and solutions architects behind YugabyteDB, along with guest presenters. Topics vary week-to-week, but focus on use cases, product features, and best practices.

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Date
Engineer(s)
Talk
04/18/2025
Hari Krishna Sunder
Say Goodbye to Painful PostgreSQL Upgrades – YugabyteDB Does It Live!
04/04/2025
Sanyam Singhal
YFTT: Migrating to YugabyteDB - Assess the migration - Part 2
03/21/2025
Priyanshi Gupta
Migrating to YugabyteDB - Assess the migration - Part 1
03/07/2025
Karthik Ramanathan
Debugging queries with Query Diagnostics
02/14/2025
Ishan Chhangani
Debugging queries with Query Diagnostics
01/31/2025
Sushant Mishra
PostgreSQL 15 compatible YugabyteDB
01/17/2025
Kai Franz
How to Eliminate Redundant Indexes for Better Performance
12/13/2024
Jason Kim
Faster INSERT ON CONFLICT for YugabyteDB
11/15/2024
Naitik Shah
Follower Reads and Read Replicas
11/08/2024
Sfurti Sarah
Custom Plugins in the YCQL Java Driver
11/01/2024
Patnaik Balivada
1000x Fewer Retries with Amazon Time Sync Service in Concurrent Workloads
10/25/2024
Harsh Daryani
Node-Type Aware Load-Balancing in YSQL Drivers
10/18/2024
Anubhav Srivastava
Help, I dropped my table! Instant Database Cloning to the rescue!
10/11/2024
Timothy Elgersma
Postgres Bitmap Scans in YugabyteDB
10/04/2024
Anton Rybochkin
Backward scan improvements in YugabyteDB
09/27/2024
Don Bizzell
Building a Modern Retail Product Catalog with YugabyteDB
09/20/2024
Devansh Saxena
Sneak peek - YugabyteDB Partition Management with pg_partman
09/13/2024
Saurav Tiwary
Postgres compatible Logical Replication in YSQL
09/06/2024
Hari Krishna Sunder
Simplified schema management with xCluster DB Scoped
08/30/2024
Sasha Sinkevich
Data Protection in YugabyteDB with Federal Cryptography Standards
08/23/2024
Jim Knicely
Colocate YSQL tables to optimize for low-latency, high-performance access
08/16/2024
Aman Nijhawan
Yugabyte K8s (Kubernetes) Operator
08/09/2024
Piyush Jain
Scalable jobqueue on YugabyteDB
08/02/2024
Hari Krishna Sunder
pg_cron in YugabyteDB
07/26/2024
Amit Chauhan
Building Real-Time Data Pipelines with Amazon Kinesis and YugabyteDB
07/19/2024
Rahul Barigidad
Sneak peek : Connection Manager
07/12/2024
Naitik Shah
YCQL Data Modeling in YugabyteDB
06/28/2024
Andrei Martsinchyk
Sneak peek: Postgres Parallel Query in YugabyteDB
06/21/2024
Gaurav Kukreja
Performance Improvements with new Cost Models in Query Planner
06/14/2024
Bryan Whitmore
Ensuring Business Continuity Through Gray Failures
06/07/2024
Abhinab Saha
Active Session History - Part 2 - Query recipes for debugging
05/31/2024
Amitanand Aiyer Swaminathan
Active Session History - Part 1 - Concepts, Use Cases and Architecture
05/24/2024
Arpan Agrawal
Sneak peek into PostgreSQL 15 compatible YugabyteDB
05/17/2024
Kavya Shivashankar
pg_hint_plan in YugabyteDB
05/10/2024
Alan Caldera
YugabyteDB YCQL vs. Cassandra
05/03/2024
Shikhar Sahay
Day-2 Ops with YugabyteDB OSS
04/19/2024
Bvsk Patnaik
Optimizing YSQL Transaction Performance
04/12/2024
Jim Knicely
YugabyteDB.Tips
04/05/2024
Bretty Hoyer
Building an A.I. Agent backed by YugabyteDB
03/29/2024
Bala Seetharaman
Open Lakehouses with YugabyteDB and Hudi
03/22/2024
Naitik Shah
Counting Rows of Large Tables
03/15/2024
Premkumar Thangamani
Distributed SQL Data Modeling
03/08/2024
Hari Krishna Sunder
Rolling Back Upgrades in YugabyteDB
03/01/2024
Srinivasa Vasu
App Resilience with Adaptive Retry Policies
02/23/2024
Dorian Hoxha
Best Practices: Schema Migrations
02/16/2024
Anand Srinivasan
Transactional Change Data Capture (CDC)
02/09/2024
Saurav Tiwary
OIDC Authentication with Azure AD & YSQL
02/02/2024
Hari Krishna Sunder
Transactional xCluster
01/26/2024
Shawn Sherwood
Connection Pooling with Spring Boot and Hikari
01/19/2024
Franck Pachot
How Postgres Joins Work in YugabyeDB
01/12/2024
Alan Caldera
Schema Management using Event Triggers
12/08/2023
Franck Pachot
Serializable Errors and Retry Logic
12/01/2023
Premkumar Thangamani
On-Demand Horizontal Scaling
11/27/2023
Mikhail Bautin
Enhancing RocksDB for Speed and Scale
11/10/2023
Hari Krishna Sunder
Handling Format Changes During Upgrades
11/03/2023
Basava Kolagani
Faster bootstrap from nearest replica
10/27/2023
Tanuj Nayak
Pushing Down DISTINCT Queries
10/13/2023
Andrei Martsinchyk
Expression Pushdown
10/06/2023
Shawn Sherwood
YSQL Connection Metadata Caching
09/29/2023
Fizaa Luthra
Superfast ADD COLUMN with default values
09/22/2023
Jason Kim
Fast Aggregates with Pushdown
09/15/2023
Hemant Bhanawat
Statement Metrics in YCQL
09/08/2023
Sushant Mishra
Query Latency Histogram
09/01/2023
Karthik Ramanathan
EXPLAIN ANALYZE for Distributed Execution
08/18/2023
Taylor Vesely
Transaction Locking
08/11/2023
Piyush Jain
High Availability of Transactions
08/04/23
Premkumar Thangamani
Scaling Sequences with Server-Level Caching
07/28/23
John Meehan
Improving Read Performance via Smarter Full Compactions
07/21/23
Bala Seetharaman
Extending Data Lakehouses with YugabyteDB
07/14/23
Denis Magda
Building Geo-Distributed Applications: A Blueprint
07/07/23
Mike LaSpina
Tenant Migration with (Nearly) No Down-Time
06/30/23
Kavya Shivashankar
JSONB Datatype & Secondary Indexes in YCQL
06/23/23
Frits Hoogland
Deep Dive into auto_explain
06/16/23
Amit Chauhan
Test Driving Scalability & Resilience
6/2/23
Valerie Parham-Thompson
Fuzzy Matching
05/26/23
Anubhav Srivastava
Cluster Balancing
05/19/23
Franck Pachot
Range Indexes for LIKE Predicates in YugabyteDB
05/12/23
Jason Kim
Online Index Creation
05/05/23
Hemant Bhanawat
Performance Debugging in YugabyteDB
04/28/23
Amogh Shetkar
Bulk Data Loading in YCQL
04/21/23
Amit Jambure
Bulk Data Loading in YSQL
4/14/23
Naitik Shah
Using Apache Spark with YugabyteDB
4/7/23
Premkumar Thangamani
Multi-Region Deployment Best Practices
3/31/23
Yifan Guan
Colocation in YugabyteDB
3/17/23
R.K.N.
CDC Enhancements in YugabyteDB
3/10/23
Franck Pachot
Best Practices Using Sequences
3/3/23
Rajat Venkatesh
Login Policy Feature & Password Checker
2/24/23
Premkumar Thangamani
Don't Let Tombstones Affect Scan Performance
2/17/23
Dmitry Sherstobitov
TAQO - Testing Accuracy of Query Optimizer
2/10/23
Val Kulichenko
Disaster Recovery in YugabyteDB
2/3/23
Tanuj Nayak
Batched Nested Loop Joins
1/27/23
John Meehan
Full Compactions in YB & How to Schedule Them
1/20/23
Brett Hoyer
Auto ID Generation in PostgreSQL & YugabyteDB
1/13/23
Raghavendra T. K.
Network and On-Disk Compression in YugabyteDB
1/6/23
Premkumar Thangamani
Avoiding Hot-Spots on Timestamp Based Indexes
12/16/22
Steve Song
Performance Analysis Using pg_stat
12/9/22
Franck Pachot
Achieving Zero-Downtime: Deployment Options
12/2/22
Valerie Parham-Thompson
Audit Logging in YugabyteDB
11/18/22
Timur Yusupov
Automatic Tablet Splitting in YugabyteDB
11/11/22
Hari Krishna Sunder
Using Preferred Regions in YugabyteDB
11/4/22
Balachandar Seetharaman
CDC from YugabyteDB to Elasticsearch
10/28/22
Srinivasa Vasu
Deploying Multi-Region YugabyteDB on GKE
10/21/22
Rajat Venkatesh
Stream Data to S3 Using YugabyteDB CDC
10/7/22
Sanketh Indarapu
Encryption in Transit in YugabyteDB
9/30/22
Franck Pachot
Row Level Security and Column Encryption
9/23/22
Deepthi Srinivasan
Row Level Geo-Partitioning in YugabyteDB
9/16/22
Bryn Llewellyn
Triggers Considered Harmful
9/9/22
Abhishek Mishra
RBAC Security Features in YugabyteDB
9/2/22
Franck Pachot
Postgres TABLESPACE in a Cloud Native World
8/19/22
Raghavendra T.K.
Packed Row Storage Format in YugabyteDB
8/12/22
Frits Hoogland
yb_stats in YugabyteDB
8/5/22
Rahul Desirazu
Encryption at Rest in YugabyteDB
7/29/22
Prasad Radhakrishnan
YugabyteDB Voyager – Data Migration Simplified
7/22/22
Sushant Mishra
YugabyteDB Performance Advisor
7/15/22
Bryn Llewellyn
Are Stored Procedures a Good Thing?
7/8/22
Nikhil Chandrappa
Managing Your YugabyteDB Cluster with yugabyted
7/1/22
Rob Sami
Optimistic & Pessimistic Locking in YugabyteDB
6/24/22
Denis Magda
Partitioning Tables in YugabyteDB
6/17/22
Piyush Jain
Transaction Isolation Levels
6/10/22
Suranjan Kumar
Change Data Capture in YugabyteDB
6/3/22
Bryn Llewellyn
Spotlight on YSQL JSON
5/27/22
Aravind Nallan
YCQL – Automatic Deletion of Data Using Time-To-Live (TTL)
5/20/22
Fizaa Luthra
YSQL Materialized Views
5/13/22
Frits Hoogland
Using the Orafce Extension in YugabyteDB
5/6/22
Rahul Desirazu
xCluster Replication
4/29/22
Rob Sami
Supporting Savepoints in YSQL
04/15/22
Ram Kannan
Optimizing Queries Using the pg_hint_plan PostgreSQL Extension
04/08/22
Franck Pachot
Partial Indexes & Expression Based Indexes
04/01/22
Sergei Politov
Point-in-Time Recovery in YugabyteDB
03/25/22
Franck Pachot
Indexes in YugabyteDB
03/18/22
Alan Caldera
Backup/Restore in YugabyteDB
03/11/22
Minghui Yang
YSQL Collation Support
03/04/22
Tanuj Nayak
yb_hash_code() built-in function in YSQL
02/25/22
Jason Kim
Generalized Inverted Indexes in YugabyteDB
02/18/22
Amitanand Aiyer
YSQL Follower Reads
02/11/22
Franck Pachot
Multi-Region Deployment Options
02/04/22
Neeraj Kumar
PostgreSQL-Compatible “Smart” Drivers
01/28/22
Rob Sami
Continuous Availability with YugabyteDB
01/21/22
Bogdan Matican
YugabyteDB Sharding Strategies
01/14/22
Mihnea Iancu
YugabyteDB’s SQL Layer
01/07/22
Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan, and Mikhail Bautin (Co-Founders)
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