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Containers Databases Distributed SQL Kubernetes PostgreSQL
March 11, 2020
by Andrew Nelson

Monitoring YugabyteDB with Prometheus and Grafana in Kubernetes

Prometheus has matured into a robust time-series metrics monitoring solution since it was first open-sourced in 2012. CNCF incubated it as its second project after Kubernetes in 2016 followed by graduation in 2018. Today it is arguably the most popular option for monitoring Kubernetes cluster metrics as well as container-based applications. Combined with Grafana for visualization, it becomes a potent combination for dashboarding performance of applications.

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Cloud Providers Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform How To Kubernetes
March 9, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Getting Started with Falco Runtime Security and Cloud Native Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine

Falco is an incubating CNCF project that provides cloud native, open source runtime security for applications running in Kubernetes environments. Falco monitors process behaviors to detect anomalous activity and help administrators gain deeper insights into process execution.  Behind the scenes, Falco leverages the Linux-native extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology to analyze network traffic and audits a system at the most fundamental level,

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Cloud Providers Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform How To Kubernetes PostgreSQL
March 5, 2020
by Andrew Nelson

Cloud Native Meets Distributed SQL: Bringing Microservices, Kubernetes, Istio & YugabyteDB Together with Hipster Shop Demo

Polyglot persistence is the widely accepted database implementation strategy when it comes to decomposing monoliths into microservices. In practice, this requires every microservice to model its data needs independently using a database that is purpose-built for that particular model, and thereafter store the data in an independent database instance. While independent database instances as a deployment paradigm makes sense from an decoupled microservices architecture standpoint,

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Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL
March 4, 2020
by Karthik Ranganathan

5 Query Pushdowns for Distributed SQL and How They Differ from a Traditional RDBMS

A pushdown is an optimization to improve the performance of a SQL query by moving its processing as close to the data as possible. Pushdowns can drastically reduce SQL statement processing time by filtering data before transferring it over the network, filtering data before loading it into memory, or pruning out entire files or blocks that  do not need to be read.

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Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL
March 2, 2020
by Michelle Brinich

INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring!)

If you’re looking to turn your passion for Yugabyte into your profession, then we have great news for you! Yugabyte is currently looking for talented people to join our team and help us keep the momentum going. In addition, the Yugabyte community more broadly is looking for people to help them create and operate global, internet-scale apps built with our distributed SQL database.

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Databases Distributed SQL Open Source PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.1
February 28, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Feb 28, 2020

We are excited to announce that YugabyteDB 2.1 went GA earlier this week! You can read the official release notes here. This release shipped with almost 70 new enhancements and fixes.

What’s YugabyteDB? It is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner.

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Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform How To PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.1
February 27, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Getting Started with Distributed SQL on Yugabyte Cloud

With the release of YugabyteDB 2.1 earlier this week, we introduced many exciting new features: performance optimizations, 2DC and read replica support, and more. We also announced that Yugabyte Cloud is now officially in Beta! In this blog post we’ll show you how to quickly get up and running with a YugabyteDB cluster on Yugabyte Cloud,

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Databases Distributed SQL GraphQL Open Source PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.1
February 25, 2020
by Sid Choudhury

YugabyteDB 2.1 is GA: Scaling New Heights with Distributed SQL

Team Yugabyte is excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.1! The highlight of this release is that Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible API, has not only improved performance 10x since the 2.0 release in September 2019 but is also production ready for multiple geo-distributed deployment scenarios. For those of you who are new to distributed SQL,

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Databases Distributed SQL Open Source Performance Benchmarks PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.1
February 25, 2020
by Karthik Ranganathan

Achieving 10x Better Distributed SQL Performance in YugabyteDB 2.1

When starting the YugabyteDB project, our founding thesis was to build a high-performance distributed SQL database for the cloud native era. Achieving high performance will always remain an ongoing initiative, especially when additional optimizations are required to support new features and new use cases. We are excited that the current YugabyteDB 2.1 release has a number of improvements that make Yugabyte SQL’s performance 10x better on average than the previous 2.0 release (from September 2019).

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