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Thoughts on distributed databases, open source and cloud native

Databases Distributed SQL How To Kubernetes
October 21, 2020
by Chirag Narang

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.

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Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL
October 20, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

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,

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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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Amazon Web Services Cloud Providers Databases Distributed SQL How To
October 7, 2020
by Bhavin Gandhi

Using Terraform to Provision a YugabyteDB Cluster

This blog post is written by guest author Bhavin Gandhi, Software Engineer at InfraCloud Technologies, Inc. InfraCloud helps startups, SMBs, and enterprises scale by adopting cloud-native technologies.

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool as well as a framework. It is used for writing the infrastructure configuration in a declarative way using HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) or JSON.

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Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL
October 1, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

A PostgreSQL-Compatible, Distributed SQL Cheat Sheet: The Basics

In this blog post, we’ll highlight how all the basic commands you end up using in the first few minutes after installing PostgreSQL are identical in YugabyteDB. We’ll cover connecting to the database, creating users, databases, schemas, and calling external files from the SQL shell. In the next blog post in this series we’ll tackle querying data to demonstrate that if you know how to query data in PostgreSQL,

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Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL
September 29, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Getting Started with IntelliJ IDEA and Distributed SQL

IntelliJ IDEA is a popular integrated development environment (IDE) written in Java for developing software. It is developed by JetBrains and is available as an Apache 2 licensed community edition and in a proprietary commercial edition. IntelliJ supports a variety of datasources within their IDE. Because YugabyteDB is PostgreSQL compatible, most third-party tools and apps will work “out of the box.” IntelliJ is no exception here.

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Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL
September 24, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Use Retool to Quickly Build Distributed SQL and React Apps

Retool is a next generation WSIWYG SaaS-based tool that enables you to quickly build React applications for internal consumption from your existing data sources using a variety of pre-built “building blocks.” Developers can choose from over 58 drag and drop components and combine them with custom JavaScript to create applications that can be securely deployed on-premise or hosted environments like Heroku.

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September 22, 2020
by Steve Bang

What’s New and Improved in YugabyteDB Docs – September 2020

Welcome to this month’s edition of what’s new and improved in YugabyteDB Docs. We’re continually adding to and updating the documentation to give you the information you need to make the most out of YugabyteDB. This post covers recent content added, and changes made, to the YugabyteDB documentation since the last posting.

YSQL

What is YSQL?

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Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL
September 9, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks for PostgreSQL and Oracle DBAs – Sep 9, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we explore both beginner and advanced YugabyteDB topics for PostgreSQL and Oracle DBAs. First things first, for those of you who might be new to either distributed SQL or YugabyteDB.

What is Distributed SQL?

Distributed SQL databases are becoming popular with organizations interested in moving data infrastructure to the cloud or cloud native environments.

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