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Introducing YugabyteDB with Enhanced Postgres Compatibility: Postgres Without Limits

September 19, 2024

By Karthik Ranganathan and Suda Srinivasan

Introducing YugabyteDB with Enhanced Postgres Compatibility: Postgres Without Limits

We are thrilled to announce powerful new capabilities and architectural enhancements — collectively called enhanced Postgres compatibility — that allow a broader range of Postgres apps to run on YugabyteDB. This latest development makes YugabyteDB the perfect database for companies building cloud-native applications and modernizing existing applications to a cloud-native RDBMS. Click to discover what’s new in YugabyteDB and why we decided to build these new capabilities.

How to Architect a Robust Data Pipeline with Microsoft Fabric and YugabyteDB

September 16, 2024

By Balachandar Seetharaman

Integrations

How to Architect a Robust Data Pipeline with Microsoft Fabric and YugabyteDB

Integrating Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines with YugabyteDB using incremental data loading is an efficient and scalable solution for managing large datasets. This blog explores how you can easily ingest data from YugabyteDB and process and store it in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse using Microsoft Fabric’s Data Pipeline. The result is seamless data flow, centralized storage, and robust analytics capabilities, enabling effective data-driven decision-making.

Embracing Chaos: Testing Resiliency and Consistency in YugabyteDB

September 13, 2024

By Dmitry Sherstobitov

Jepsen Tests

Embracing Chaos: Testing Resiliency and Consistency in YugabyteDB

Jepsen tests and a chaos-driven testing framework play a crucial role in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities. However, traditional testing methods fall short for cloud-native applications and distributed systems. This blog provides the latest Jepsen updates for YugabyteDB, as well as sharing information on additional in-house built frameworks for resiliency and consistency testing that go far beyond Jepsen.

Achieving AI-Driven Innovation with YugabyteDB and IBM watsonx.data

September 10, 2024

By Balachandar Seetharaman

Integrations

Achieving AI-Driven Innovation with YugabyteDB and IBM watsonx.data

Combine the power of cloud-native distributed database YugabyteDB with real-time, scalable data lake intelligence from watsonx.data. This blog explores how YugabyteDB can be seamlessly integrated with watsonx.data (IBM’s Presto-based data lake) using the Postgres driver, and details critical business use cases.

Unlocking the Power of Low Code/No Code with Budibase and YugabyteDB

August 27, 2024

By Balachandar Seetharaman

How To

Unlocking the Power of Low Code/No Code with Budibase and YugabyteDB

Combining Budibase’s intuitive low-code platform with YugabyteDB’s scalable and reliable distributed database allows businesses to streamline operations, reduce costs, and speed-up time to market. Discover how you can leverage the powerful combination of Budibase and YugabyteDB to build a robust order management application.

Postgres to YugabyteDB in 100 Apps: Join the Postgres App Century Challenge

August 22, 2024

By Denis Magda

PostgreSQL

Postgres to YugabyteDB in 100 Apps: Join the Postgres App Century Challenge

We aim to prove YugabyteDB’s enhanced Postgres compatibility by migrating 100 popular open source Postgres applications to YugabyteDB! Discover how you can get involved in the Postgres App Century Challenge.

Does Open Source Work as a Long-Term Business Model?

August 19, 2024

By Karthik Ranganathan

Open Source

Does Open Source Work as a Long-Term Business Model?

Cockroach Lab’s decision to move away from open source has reignited the debate on the long-term viability of open source projects, and how companies can find success with this business model. Discover why Yugabyte co-founder Karthik Ranganathan believes that open source (and PostgreSQL) is the future, and the reasons why YugabyteDB is (and will continue to be) fully open.

How to Build Low-Latency Global Applications with Google Apigee and YugabyteDB

August 12, 2024

By Brett Hoyer

Google Cloud Platform

How to Build Low-Latency Global Applications with Google Apigee and YugabyteDB

Looking to deliver a low-latency experience across multiple cloud regions? Discover how to deploy a high-performance multi-region application on Google Cloud by leveraging Apigee to proxy requests to local backend services and YugabyteDB for data distribution.

How We Test Distributed PostgreSQL Performance and Scalability

August 5, 2024

By Shaharuk Shaikh

PostgreSQL

How We Test Distributed PostgreSQL Performance and Scalability

Conducting extensive and diverse performance and scalability testing ensures that YugabyteDB remains a reliable and high-performance distributed PostgreSQL database, ideal for handling mission-critical, global-scale, applications. This blog gives a deep dive into our comprehensive testing framework.

How to Build a Robust Distributed FIFO Job Queue in YugabyteDB

July 30, 2024

By Premkumar Thangamani

How To

How to Build a Robust Distributed FIFO Job Queue in YugabyteDB

When developing applications and distributed systems, understanding and implementing distributed job queues can dramatically improve your infrastructure and ensure your apps remain robust, scalable, and efficient. This blog demonstrates how you can design a simple ordered distributed job queue using YugabyteDB, and covers architecture, advantages, and typical applications.

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