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Thoughts on distributed databases, open source and cloud native

Amazon Web Services Distributed SQL How To Spring
October 19, 2020
by Nikhil Chandrappa

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,

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Cloud Providers Databases Distributed SQL GraphQL
September 17, 2020
by Chirag Narang

Heroku Add-on for Yugabyte Cloud Now Available in Public Beta

Today, we are pleased to announce the public beta release of the Heroku Yugabyte Cloud add-on. With new accessibility to the Heroku marketplace, the process of deploying a fully-managed distributed SQL database in the cloud is now radically simple. For those of you who are new to distributed SQL, YugabyteDB is a Google Spanner-inspired, cloud native distributed SQL database that is 100% open source.

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Databases Distributed SQL Docker Ecosystem Integrations How To Kubernetes PostgreSQL
August 26, 2020
by Sid Choudhury

Using Envoy Proxy’s PostgreSQL & TCP Filters to Collect Yugabyte SQL Statistics

Layer 7 proxies like NGINX and HAProxy have been popular since the mid-2000s. The term “proxy” refers to their role as an intermediary for the traffic between an application client and an application server. The “layer 7” classification comes from the fact that these proxies take routing decisions based on URLs, IPs, TCP/UDP ports, cookies, or any information present in messages sent over a layer 7 (aka application layer) networking protocol like HTTP and gRPC.

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Databases Distributed SQL GraphQL How To PostgreSQL
August 25, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Webinar Recap: CRUD Operations with Hasura GraphQL and Distributed SQL

For those of you who missed last week’s YugabyteDB Community Q&A session, which covered GraphQL fundamentals, here’s the playback:

If you are interested in further exploring the possibilities of Hasura GraphQL and Distributed SQL, check out these resources.

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Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform GraphQL How To Kubernetes Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL
August 24, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Getting Started with Hasura GraphQL Remote JOINs on Multi-Cloud Distributed SQL

Remote Joins in Hasura GraphQL extend the concept of joining data across tables, to being able to join data across tables and remote data sources. In this blog post we are going to demonstrate this capability by configuring the following set up.

  • A 3 node YugabyteDB cluster running on GKE with a Hasura GraphQL Engine attached
  • A 3 node YugabyteDB cluster running on AKS with a Hasura GraphQL Engine attached
  • A Remote Schema and Remote Relationship configured
  • The ability to issue GraphQL queries that join data from two different databases,

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Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform GraphQL How To Kubernetes
August 21, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Deploying a Real-Time Location App with Hasura GraphQL Engine and Distributed SQL

Hasura is one of the leading vendors in the GraphQL ecosystem. They offer an open source engine that connects to your databases and microservices, and then auto-generates a production-ready GraphQL backend. GraphQL is a query language (more specifically a specification) for your API, and a server-side runtime for executing queries by using a type system you define for your data.

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Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes Spring
August 20, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Run the REST Version of Spring PetClinic with Angular and Distributed SQL on GKE

Java developers know that Spring Data makes it easy to use data access technologies, relational and non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud-based data services. When YugabyteDB is combined with Spring, Java developers are able to leverage their familiarity with PostgreSQL while gaining the added benefits of Distributed SQL. These “out-of-the-box” benefits include geo-data distribution, high performance, and horizontal scalability,

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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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