Citus Newsletter

1. Do You Recommend Citus?

We strive to give you Postgres you don’t have to worry about (specifically, Postgres that scales out.) How are we doing? We appreciate feedback and would love to know if our Citus database is serving you well and delighting your team.

2. Table Types with Citus and Postgres

This brief tour of table types walks you through three types of database tables in Citus, from distributed tables to reference tables to standard Postgres tables. Take the tour → 

3. Efficient rollup tables with HyperLogLog in Postgres

One of our engineers, Burak Yucesoy, makes the argument that a Postgres rollup table with HyperLogLog (HLL) is worth a thousand rollup tables without HLL. Do you agree? Read more →

4. Introducing the Citus Add-on for Heroku—Scale out your Postgres

If you use Heroku Postgres, we want scaling your Postgres database on Heroku to be as easy as scaling your Heroku app. Which is why we were so excited to roll out the Citus add-on to Heroku. Learn more → 

5. Scaling out (Postgre)SQL—Marco Slot at dotScale 2017 in Paris

The video is out. Our engineer Marco Slot gave a great presentation on scaling Postgres in Paris earlier this year. Watch the video → 

6. Customizing My Postgres Shell

Our head of cloud, Craig Kerstiens, shells out tips on his Postgres shell and how even small optimizations can pay major dividends in efficiency. See Craig’s .psqlrc → 

7. Going to AWS Summit New York in Aug?

New York City, here we come. If you plan to attend the AWS Summit in NYC, drop by and visit. We’d love to chat Postgres, distributed databases, horizontal scale, Citus, food, wine—even citrus! :)