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Real-Time Scalable GraphQL and JAMstack with Gatsby, Hasura, and YugabyteDB

June 17, 2020

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Real-Time Scalable GraphQL and JAMstack with Gatsby, Hasura, and YugabyteDB

JAMstack is a new way of building websites and apps. It’s not a technology but rather an architectural pattern that is growing in popularity. In JAMstack, the JAM acronym stands for JavaScript, API, and Markup, and the main idea behind the technology is that web applications don’t have to rely on the application server to be fully functional and robust.

There are four primary benefits of adopting a JAMstack architecture.

Higher performance driven by efficient use of static assets and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).

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June 11, 2020

By Karthik Ranganathan

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100% Committed to Open Source, YugabyteDB Community Update – June 11, 2020

While it is still early days, it is exciting to see the YugabyteDB community hit some cool milestones! We wanted to share them with you, plus update you some additional community related news.

Our Commitment to Social Justice

First things first. Recent events that resulted in the death of George Floyd at the hands of police have been traumatic and painful for many of us, nationally and globally. It’s clear there is an overwhelming need for racial justice,

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June 9, 2020

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

Company News Distributed SQL

Yugabyte Raises a $30 Million Series B

It is my pleasure to announce that Yugabyte has raised $30 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by 8VC, with participation from Wipro Ventures and existing investors, Lightspeed and Dell Technologies Capital. Bhaskar Ghosh from 8VC joins our board of directors along with Scott Yara, formerly of Greenplum and Pivotal Software. We are truly excited to partner with Bhaskar Ghosh and the dynamic team at 8VC,

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Getting Started with Distributed SQL on Red Hat OpenShift with YugabyteDB Operator

June 4, 2020

By Nikhil Chandrappa

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Getting Started with Distributed SQL on Red Hat OpenShift with YugabyteDB Operator

We are happy to announce that the YugabyteDB Operator is now certified and available as a Beta release on Red Hat OpenShift, a leading enterprise Kubernetes platform for deploying and managing cloud native applications. Achieving certification means that customers can deploy YugabyteDB on OpenShift with confidence because the YugabyteDB container image has been secured, validated, and is well-integrated to run on OpenShift. And the solution is backed by collaborative support between Red Hat and Yugabyte,

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Highly Available Prometheus Metrics for Distributed SQL with Thanos on GKE

May 26, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

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Highly Available Prometheus Metrics for Distributed SQL with Thanos on GKE

In the last few years, Prometheus has gained huge popularity as a tool for monitoring distributed systems. It has a simple yet powerful data model and query language, however, it can often pose a bit of a challenge when it comes to high availability as well as for historical metric data storage. Adding more Prometheus replicas can be used to improve availability, but otherwise, Prometheus does not offer continuous availability. For example, if one of the Prometheus replicas crashes,

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Building the Cloud Native Future – Why I Joined Yugabyte

May 19, 2020

By Bill Cook

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Building the Cloud Native Future – Why I Joined Yugabyte

I am incredibly proud and honored to be taking on a new role as CEO of Yugabyte. When I started talking with Yugabyte’s founders, Karthik, Kannan and Mikhail, about joining the Yugabyte executive team, I was hooked. I immediately felt a strong alignment between my experiences and goals, and the opportunities ahead at Yugabyte. A lot goes into finding the right role at the right time, but three things in particular really stood out and inspired me to join Yugabyte.

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May 19, 2020

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

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Welcome Bill Cook as Yugabyte’s New CEO

I’m excited to welcome Bill Cook to the team as the new CEO of Yugabyte! Bill is an extraordinary leader with an exemplary record of building and scaling enterprise infrastructure companies. Bill joins us from Pivotal Software where, as co-founder and President, he was part of the leadership team that helped solidify the company as the gold standard in cloud native software development and led Pivotal through its IPO and subsequent merger with VMware in 2019.

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New 451 Research Report: Distributed SQL

May 13, 2020

By Michelle Brinich

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New 451 Research Report: Distributed SQL

Today, we are releasing a new 451 Research report: Distributed SQL, An Enabler for Globally Consistent Transactional Workloads. The report, which we commissioned, explores how database systems, sitting at the heart of the enterprise, play a key role in digital transformation initiatives.

At Yugabyte, we partner with our customers daily to help accelerate their digital initiatives, and we get a front-row seat as their business-critical applications scale to billions and billions of operations per day,

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Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables

May 12, 2020

By Neha Deodhar

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Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables

In YugabyteDB v2.1, we released a new feature in beta: colocated tables. And we were excited to announce the general availability of colocated tables, along with many other exciting new features, in YugabyteDB 2.2. In this post, we’ll explain what colocated tables are in a distributed SQL database, why you would need them, and how to get started.

May 8, 2020

By Dorian Hoxha

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – May 8, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub, or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

How can I connect YugabyteDB with Apache Spark?

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