Aug 2022 Citus Open Source Newsletter

Video: 8 keys to the growth of Citus & Distributed PostgreSQL

In his Citus Con keynote, Umur Cubukcu shares the decisions that fueled the growth of Citus—from betting on Postgres to focusing on specific workloads & more. Illuminating.

Watch Umur’s keynote ⟶

Maintenance of a Multi-Database Citus Cluster

In this article, a Citus open source user shares his method for managing hundreds of databases on thousands of workers of a Citus cluster. Good stuff.

Read Ivan’s post ⟶

PGConf EU schedule announced—see you there!

Come find our team at PGConf EU. Melih will talk about his first 6 months hacking on Postgres, and Claire will share tips on how to increase the reach of your Postgres blog. And we’ll have goodies to share.

Check out the schedule ⟶

Node.js app to connect and query Citus on Azure

This freshly updated article now covers a new async/await approach & includes some changes to the ECMAScript conventions. And here’s a useful code sample too.

Read the Azure docs ⟶

Will you be at PGConf NYC in September?

The Microsoft Citus & Postgres team will—with socks & more. And Claire will share the plethora of ways you can contribute to Postgres. (Hint, not only code.)

Review the schedule ⟶

Citus 11 now available for Citus on Azure

Citus on Azure now supports all of the Citus 11 superpowers—like query from any node.

Read the announcement ⟶

In public preview—cross-region read replicas for Citus on Azure

Citus on Azure now has cross-region read replicas (in public preview) to scale and balance your read-heavy workloads.

ICYMI: 13 tips for debugging Postgres autovacuum problems

The definitive blog post on debugging and optimizing PostgreSQL autovacuum—includes a cheat sheet, and a video for those who prefer to watch.

Read Samay’s post ⟶