Past Newsletters

2023

• Schema-based sharding for Postgres August
• New distributed database benchmarks June
• Citus 11.3 is out! May
• Check out the videos from Citus Con 2023! April
• Path to Citus Con March
• Citus 11.2 released February
• 4 Tips for debugging Postgres CLI failures January

2022

• Best of Citus newsletter in 2022 December
• Citus blogs & PG 15 IO concurrency November
• Citus 11.1 is out! September
• The Growth of Citus & Distributed Postgres August
• Monitoring distributed PG activity w/Citus July
• Citus 11—now fully open source June
• PG15 sort performance May
• Talks from Citus Con: An Event for Postgres April
• Citus 11.0 beta & Citus Con March
• CFP for Citus Con & Citus packages January

2021

• Best Citus & Postgres content of 2021 December
• Marco’s new video, Flex Server GA, a PG book November
• Time series data, Postgres 14, memory tuning October
• Citus 10.2, PostgreSQL 14, and more September
• Citus 10.1 is out! August
• How Citus distributes PostgreSQL July
• Read replicas, foreign keys & Citus SIGMOD paper June
• Citus demo & more new Citus 10 blog posts May
• Basic Tier in Hyperscale (Citus) April
• Citus 10 blog posts, videos, & more March
• Undistribute table & Postgres failover tips February
• Get started w/Citus, Oracle to Postgres migration January

2020

• Best of Citus & Postgres items for 2020 December
• Citus 9.5 and Postgres stored procedures November
• Postgres connection scalability & pg_cron October
• Citus 9.4 what’s new & t-digest September
• Citus demo, calculating percentiles & Bitnami August
• SCRAM, channel_binding, & bloat July
• Citus 9.3, HTAP demo, & Bigint conversion June
• Optimizing Django, Spatial SQL with PostGIS May
• Adaptive executor, PyCon things, & docs April
• Citus 9.2, Postgres committers, & logs March
• Index types, system metrics, Node, & JSON February
• Extensions, Async IO, talk tips, & more January

2019

• Active Directory, Sharding, PgDay SF & more December
• Hyperscale (Citus) GA & generated columns November
• Petabyte-scale analytics dashboards & more October
• pg_dump & pg_restore tips, Django interview September
• Postgres connection pooling, PostgresOpen, more August
• Postgres tips, testing Django apps, & more July
• Database sharding, PostgresOpen, & more June
• Hyperscale (Citus), pg_auto_failover, & more May
• Super user access, Postgres checkup, Pex & more April
• Your next database, functions, & more March
• pg_stat_statements, Algolia, TopN February
• Contributing to Postgres, self joins, & more January

2018

• The RDBMS is the future, Star Wars, & more December
• Time series data, Postgres extensions, & more November
• 1% donation, commenting Postgres October
• 12 Factor & databases, followers, & SQL joins September
• Real-time executor, data types, & Citus 7.5 August
• Landlord per-tenant stats & distributed DML July
• Incremental data aggregation & Fun with SQL June
• Citus 7.4, Recursive CTEs in Postgres, & more May
• Citus 7.3, Performance video, & Datadog April
• TopN, Constraints, Subqueries, & Hackathons March
• Locks, Postgres Replication, & Multi-Tenant Java Apps February
• Citus 7.2, pg_partman, & 10 Most-Read 2017 Posts January

2017

• Citus 7.1 & Real-Time Analytics Dashboards December
• Django Multi-Tenant Apps & Distributed Transactions November
• Postgres Extensions, Chartbeat, & VividCortex October
• Citus 7, Migration, and How Citus Works September
• Sharding, Fork, & WAL-G August
• HLL, Table Types, & Shells July
• Citus 6.2: A database for a more civilized age June
• Postgres Tips for Rails & Scaling Connections May
• Shard Rebalancer & HA on Citus Cloud April
• Scaling Postgres on AWS March
• Citus 6.1, Tenant Isolation, & 30X-60X Faster Queries February
• Parallel indexing & scaling multi-tenant apps January

2016

• Scaling Postgres on AWS & Real-Time Event Aggregation December
• Citus 6.0, PGConf SV, & Autovacuum November
• Citus MX Beta & Designing SaaS Databases for Scale October
• 2FA in Citus Cloud, pg_cron, & Postgres metrics backends September