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Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.2
July 15, 2020
by Sid Choudhury

Announcing YugabyteDB 2.2 – Distributed SQL Made Easy

We are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.2! The highlight of this release is that YugabyteDB now supports fully-transactional distributed backups thus making mission-critical distributed SQL deployments operationally simple, even for the most demanding enterprise environments. This release also includes critical new features such as online index builds, colocated tables, and deferred constraints. The end result is that YugabyteDB continues to make distributed SQL easy.

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Community News Distributed SQL GraphQL How To PostgreSQL
July 10, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

GraphQL & Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – July 10, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we explore topics related to combining GraphQL and YugabyteDB to develop scalable APIs and services. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been published since the last tips and tricks post.

This next section is for those of you who might be new to either GraphQL or distributed SQL.

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Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL GraphQL Open Source PostgreSQL Spring
July 8, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring Developer Advocates)

It has been an exciting last few weeks here at Yugabyte! We closed our Series B funding round, Bill Cook (formerly of Pivotal and Greenplum) joined as our new CEO, we reaffirmed our commitment to open source, and achieved a bunch of cool community adoption milestones. We are hiring for several roles across engineering,

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Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL
July 7, 2020
by Michelle Brinich

INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring, July 2020 Edition)

Recent Highlights and Happenings

It’s been another fast-moving month here at Yugabyte. Although it remains a difficult time nationally and globally, it’s our hope that sharing this information and our currently open positions may be some good news at a time when it’s needed most.

On the momentum front, we recently announced that we raised $30 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by 8VC,

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Community News Distributed SQL Open Source
June 11, 2020
by Karthik Ranganathan

100% Committed to Open Source, YugabyteDB Community Update – June 11, 2020

While it is still early days, it is exciting to see the YugabyteDB community hit some cool milestones! We wanted to share them with you, plus update you some additional community related news.

Our Commitment to Social Justice

First things first. Recent events that resulted in the death of George Floyd at the hands of police have been traumatic and painful for many of us,

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Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL
May 13, 2020
by Michelle Brinich

New 451 Research Report: Distributed SQL

Today, we are releasing a new 451 Research report: Distributed SQL, An Enabler for Globally Consistent Transactional Workloads. The report, which we commissioned, explores how database systems, sitting at the heart of the enterprise, play a key role in digital transformation initiatives.

At Yugabyte, we partner with our customers daily to help accelerate their digital initiatives,

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