Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native
It’s a new year 🎉! And Yugabyte is hiring for new positions across a wide variety of departments. In this blog post, we will share with you some of the recent announcements we’re proud of so you can get a flavor for the kinds of things we work on; introduce you to a member of the team, so you can “meet” some of the amazing people you could work alongside of in helping us carry out our mission;
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Read More2020 has been quite an unusual year. Many aspects of business and life have been radically transformed. Words can’t fully express the suffering experienced this year as individuals, families, societies, and as a global community. But simply put – 2020 was challenging and hard. We wish everyone a kind and gentle new year ahead.
As we eagerly welcome 2021,
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Read MoreAt the Distributed SQL Summit 2020, Ken Owens – Vice President, Cloud Native Engineering, Mastercard, presented the talk, “The Data Divide: An End User’s Cloud Native Journey to Distributed Databases.”
Because Ken has been working at the intersection of technology and financial services for more than 20 years,
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Read MoreOur mission at Yugabyte is to build the default distributed SQL database for cloud native applications in a multi cloud world. We recently announced the general availability of Yugabyte 2.5, which brought new features like Geo-Partitioning and Enterprise-Grade security features in addition to major enhancements in multi-region deployments and performance – while also improving on high availability,
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Read MoreEarlier this year, we held the second annual Distributed SQL Summit, a free online conference to push the boundaries of cloud native RDBMS forward. (You can view all the talks on our Vimeo channel) Attendee feedback was very positive, the engagement level was high, and the talks were amazing! We heard the request from several community members to take the show on the (virtual) road to other timezones to make it easier to join live.
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Read MoreWelcome to this latest post on 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.
As a reminder, YugabyteDB provides two distributed SQL APIs:
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Read MoreThis blog post is written by guest author Bhavin Gandhi, Software Engineer at InfraCloud Technologies, Inc., in collaboration with the teams at Buoyant, the creator of Linkerd, and Yugabyte.
As more organizations turn to microservices architectures for their applications, Kubernetes naturally emerges as a perfect complement to those applications. But for application developers,
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Read MoreWe were delighted to have Joe Hellerstein, professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Trifacta, give the day 2 opening keynote at this year’s 2020 Distributed SQL Summit.
If you weren’t able to attend or want a refresher, here’s the summary and playback of his keynote presentation.
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Read MoreWe are excited to have teamed up with O’Reilly Media to offer developers a free copy of the SQL Cookbook, 2nd Edition. SQL remains the lingua franca of the relational database world. But where do you turn when you have questions you need to answer in your day-to-day use of the query language? Let the new SQL Cookbook,
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Read MoreAt the Distributed SQL Summit 2020, Tobias Meixner – CTO & Co-Founder at BRIKL, presented the talk, “A Migration Journey from Amazon DynamoDB to YugabyteDB and Hasura.”
Switching databases is painful, even more so when going from NoSQL to SQL. In this talk Tobias gave us insights into BRIKL’s two key elements of their migration path.
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