Sep 2022 Citus Open Source Newsletter

Citus 11.1 is out—with non-blocking writes!

With 11.1, you can now distribute Postgres tables, isolate tenants, & split shards—without interruption. Also: shard rebalancing in the background & PostgreSQL 15 Beta 4.

Read Marco’s post ⟶

Developer’s take on why Citus is now fully open source

Why, what, and how the remaining Citus enterprise features were open sourced in the Citus 11 release.

Read Jelte’s post ⟶

Postgres 15 RC 1 released

Good news, PG 15 RC 1 was just released. Citus 11.1 already included support for Postgres 15 Beta 4, and Citus 11.1.2 has RC 1 support.

Read the PG 15 news ⟶

Video: Citus 11.1 release party

Citus database engineers demoed new features of Citus 11.1 in the release party livestream—distributing tables concurrently, isolating tenants & splitting shards in an online way—plus shard rebalancing in the background. Enjoy!

Watch the replay ⟶

Performance tuning for Citus on Azure

This article covers some of the most common—and effective—techniques to improve performance of your Citus database.

Read the docs ⟶

Citus 11.1 release notes

Get all the nitty gritty details of what’s new in the 11.1 release notes.

Check out the 11.1 Updates page ⟶

Will you be at PGConf EU in October?

The Microsoft Citus & Postgres team will—with socks & more. Claire’s talk will share tips on how to increase the reach of your Postgres blog, Melih’s talk is about his first 6 months hacking on Postgres, and Charles’s talk covers building a multi-tenant SaaS app with Citus.

Check out the schedule ⟶

ICYMI: Citus & distributed PostgreSQL—8 keys to growth

From betting on Postgres to focusing on specific workloads—Umur Cubukcu shares his keys to growth in this keynote from Citus Con: An Event for Postgres.

Watch Umur’s talk ⟶