SELECT News From Yugabyte - July 22

Welcome to the July edition of Yugabyte’s SELECT newsletter. ??

As we head into Summer, we are ramping up ready for our fourth annual Distributed SQL Summit (DSS) on September 14th.?

DSS 2022 will expand on the success of past years to be our biggest global virtual event to date and will be followed by a series of in-person DSS days around the world.?

Discover more and register for free today!

We'd love to hear your feedback on the newsletter! Anything missing, or that you’d like to hear more of? Just post below or join our YugabyteDB Community Slack channel to share your experience and get advice from our active community.

Our team continues to deliver new innovations, so we are excited to announce our latest stable release—YugabyteDB 2.14 , which delivers higher performance, security and YugabyteDB Anywhere enhancements.

Highlights include:?

• Automatic certificate lifecycle management with HashiCorp Vault?
• Support for customer NTP (Network Time Protocol) server?
• Significant performance enhancements, like bulk data import?
• Fixes and updates to further enhance YugabyteDB Anywhere

Check out our latest blog for full details of what’s new in 2.14.

Don’t forget that YugabyteDB Voyager Beta is also now available for anyone to try. Take advantage of our new data migration engine that enables the safe and easy migration of application data from legacy databases and cloud databases to YugabyteDB.

Get started today!

Don’t miss our upcoming events, including:

Yugabyte Friday Tech Talks (YFTT) - This regular webinar series takes place weekly on a Friday from 9:30am - 10am PT

Cocktails, Curry, and Distributed SQL (Atlanta) - August 18th

Cocktails, Curry, and Distributed SQL (New York) - August 31st

The Temenos High Water Benchmark with YugabyteDB webinar - September 22nd

View our full list of events and register here .

Start your YugabyteDB learning journey today!

Yugabyte University offers free training options, courses, and practical workshops to provide learners with real insight into YugabyteDB’s functionality along with practical examples to apply those insights in real-world scenarios.

Check out our upcoming Yugabyte University training and join our online global community of cloud native developers and database practitioners here .?

Upcoming highlights include:

YugabyteDB YSQL Development Fundamentals - August 3rd

Build a Pet Clinic website with Spring Data and YugabyteDB Managed - August 31st

We publish regular Tips and Tricks blogs , where Yugabyte expert Marko Rajcevic answers distributed SQL questions from around the internet!

The July edition addresses these pressing questions:

• When should I use range sharding instead of hash sharding?
• Is it necessary to use the primary key in all queries, and how will it find the right tablet if I do not use the primary key?
• When should I set up Kafka versus using xCluster async replication?

All this, plus links to all the latest distributed SQL documentation, blogs, tutorials and videos.?

Discover the latest news and updates on YugabyteDB, distributed databases, open source, and cloud native via our regularly published Distributed SQL Blogs.?

Recent highlight include:

• Exploring Multi-Region Database Deployment Options with a Slack-Like Corporate Messenger?
• Stateful Applications: Design Considerations for Data in Edge Environments
• Three NoSQL Challenges That Can Be Solved with Distributed SQL

Check out the latest blogs here .??

If you're a developer - we have some great news! To deliver the best developer experience for our community we have created a dedicated GitHub org for sample projects and demos.

Presenting YugabyteDB-Samples

This space allows you to:

• Access all of the sample projects and code demos in a single place, making it easy to search and filter apps by your favorite language and framework?
• Contribute to this repo by adding your own sample apps?

We'd love to get your feedback - so let us know what you think by posting on the YugabytedB Slack .?

Join Our Team! We Are Hiring!

We are currently hiring for a number of open positions across Yugabyte. These include:

• Software Engineer, Cloud - Front-end
• Security Software Architect
• Software Engineer, Cloud - Backend Infrastructure

You can find the complete list of open roles on our Careers page . Spread the word!

Don’t forget to sign up for YugabyteDB's Community Slack , contribute to YugabyteDB on GitHub , or join one of our many meetup groups around the world, including: Austin , Bangalore , Berlin , Boston , Chicago , London , Minneapolis , New York City , San Francisco , Seattle , Silicon Valley , Singapore , and Toronto .