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Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL Spring
April 9, 2020
by Nikhil Chandrappa

Scaling Relational Spring Microservices Without Load Balancers

This article was originally posted on JAXenter.com.

Modern cloud native applications demand relational databases to be highly available while being able to scale to millions of requests (RPS) and thousands of transactions per second (TPS) on demand. This is becoming essential to meet the seamless experience demanded by business applications and their users. High availability and scalability in NoSQL databases like Apache Cassandra and MongoDB are well understood,

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Databases Distributed SQL GraphQL How To PostgreSQL
April 7, 2020
by Vladimir Novick

Scaling a Hasura GraphQL Backend with Distributed SQL

GraphQL is taking the modern development world by storm having been adopted by companies like Facebook, GitHub and Intuit because it solves many of the common problems developers encounter when working with REST APIs. For example, it solves issues like overfetching (getting more data than your response needs) and underfetching (having to make multiple fetches to get all the data you need),

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Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL
April 6, 2020
by Michelle Brinich

INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring, April 2020)

Since our last hiring post, a lot has changed in the world around us (and even that is an understatement). The coronavirus is having a devastating effect on people and communities around the globe. Now more than a million people have gotten sick (or worse), many others are economically impacted, losing jobs, businesses are shutting down, and activities we perhaps once took for granted–everything from dining out,

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Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform How To PostgreSQL
April 2, 2020
by Andrew Nelson

Automating YugabyteDB Deployments with Google Cloud Deployment Manager

This is the second post in the Getting Started with YugabyteDB on Public Cloud series. In our first post, we covered Automating YugabyteDB Deployments with AWS CloudFormation templates. In this post we will show you how to achieve the same with Cloud Deployment Manager templates when using Google Cloud.

For redundancy across multiple fault domains inside a single region,

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Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform GraphQL How To Kubernetes PostgreSQL
March 31, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Basic CRUD Operations Using Hasura GraphQL with Distributed SQL on GKE

GraphQL is an MIT-licensed project originally developed at Facebook in 2012 and open-sourced a few years later. It is rapidly increasing in popularity with more than 29 million downloads to date. Why? Think of GraphQL as a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API,

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Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL
March 30, 2020
by Michelle Brinich

An Introduction to Distributed SQL: Glossary of Terms

In 2017 we introduced YugabyteDB, an open source, high performance, cloud native database for mission-critical applications. As a team, we have worked first hand on a number of databases such as Apache HBase, Apache Cassandra (from even before it was open sourced), Oracle, and RocksDB. We were the team that built and ran Facebook’s NoSQL platform that powered a number of user-facing,

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Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL
March 26, 2020
by Bryn Llewellyn

Document Data Modeling in YugabyteDB with the JSON Data Types

YugabyteDB has two JSON data types, json and jsonb, to let you store documents in a column in a YSQL table and to do content-based queries with index support. YSQL is PostgreSQL compatible and it therefore supports every one of the rich set of about thirty five JSON-specific operators and functions that users of PostgreSQL’s JSON functionality might already know,

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Amazon Web Services Databases Distributed SQL How To
March 19, 2020
by Andrew Nelson

Automating YugabyteDB Deployments with AWS CloudFormation

YugabyteDB is easy to get started with on the infrastructure of your choice including public cloud platforms, private cloud environments, and any Kubernetes distribution. For example, you can quickly customize and deploy in AWS thanks to CloudFormation templates. AWS CloudFormation is one of the many ways to automate a public cloud deployment in a consistent manner.

Before we dive in,

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