November 2023 Summaries

You'll develop an Azure Function that connects to a YugabyteDB cluster, reads the current inventory of a shoe store, and returns it as JSON. The function is deployed to Azure using the Azure CLI and verified by making a GET request to its API endpoint. You'll also learn how to add data to the YugabyteDB cluster using provided schema.sql and data.sql files, and how to configure application settings for the Function App before publishing it to Azure.

YugabyteDB is chosen by Centralized Cloud Computing International (CCCI) for its advanced chatbot application due to its on-demand scalability, high availability, and robust security. The database supports modern application development with dual SQL and NoSQL support while simplifying management through automated database tasks. CCCI deployed YugabyteDB Managed on AWS to enhance the scalability of their customer's chatbot application, handling growing user interactions and data volumes while ensuring the chatbot is always available for real-time user assistance. The use of YugabyteDB Managed offers high availability, scalability, and robust security, leveraging AWS's global infrastructure for consistent performance and data resilience across regions, critical for the chatbot's always-on service.

** As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, Yugabyte wanted to reflect on two eventful years with YugabyteDB Managed, a turnkey, cloud-based service that leverages the strength of their open source database within simplicity. The platform has seen significant achievements driven by dedication to technical excellence and responsive evolution based on real-world use and feedback. With 166% year-over-year growth in monthly active users, over 11,000 new sign-ups in the community, and a 225% increase in cluster management, YugabyteDB Managed has proven itself as a robust and scalable service. Customers have praised features like multi-region clusters, enhanced latency management, robust resilience and fault tolerance, adherence to data regulations, scalability and performance optimization, and simplified database management. The company's commitment to excellence is demonstrated through their "Incognito Projects" - internal pranks that simulate real-world scenarios to refine tools and ensure customer perfection. With over 170+ key user capabilities and a strong focus on application development, not database operations, YugabyteDB Managed has brought transformative experiences to its users.

The premier event for fintech and financial service innovators, Money 20/20 USA, brought together global finance, payment, and fintech visionaries to define the future of all things money. Key takeaways from the event included the importance of trust and AI in building trust in the banking industry with ethical AI, balancing AI with human elements, quantum computing and its potential to simulate risk scenarios and spot irregular patterns indicative of fraud, and the ongoing need for stronger digital security measures. With a growing and rapidly evolving Latin American market, opportunities such as financial inclusion, digital identity, and fraud mitigation were highlighted. The event also emphasized the importance of partnerships and thriving ecosystems in fostering innovation, with consolidation and efficiency being key benefits. Ultimately, data's significant role in shaping these trends was underscored, and cloud-native solutions like YugabyteDB were recognized for their ability to support the evolving demands of financial services firms.

Scout24 has revamped its hospitality management platform, Kotao, by leveraging the capabilities of YugabyteDB Aeon, a modern, geo-partitioned, and highly available database. The newly implemented system is designed to provide seamless operations across multiple regions, ensuring lightning-fast speeds, exceptional uptime, and robust data integrity. With advanced geo-distribution options, strong consistency for ACID transactions, and scalability on demand, YugabyteDB Aeon meets the complex requirements of Kotao's hospitality management application, enabling Scout24 to maintain its position as a leading player in the digital real estate marketplace. The transition from AWS Aurora to YugabyteDB Aeon has significantly improved the app's resilience and availability, delivering instant responses for seamless guest service and eliminating slow load times.

The fintech company has transformed its financial technology platform by leveraging a scalable, secure, cloud-native API that enables quick adjustments to market shifts. The platform is supported by Amazon Web Services and features a broad API library for easy integration and customization. To ensure extreme resiliency in a multi-region setting without cloud vendor lock-in, the fintech company chose YugabyteDB Aeon, a modern database that outperformed other distributed SQL databases by a factor of 3 to 5 times. The architecture uses a multi-region stretch cluster deployment, where a single cluster spans multiple geographic regions, offering benefits such as compliance with data residency requirements, high availability and disaster recovery, performance optimization, extreme scalability, data localization and user experience, cross-region queries and management, cost-effectiveness, and simplified operations. By designating preferred regions, the fintech company can reduce latency, improve performance, balance load distribution, ensure fault tolerance, provide flexibility in read-write operations, and configure dynamically.

The digital marketing agency is upgrading its database infrastructure to handle transactional batch data more efficiently. They are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their scalable application, which requires massive horizontal scalability and advanced monitoring capabilities. The agency faces challenges with MySQL's table-level locking, lack of traceability, and suboptimal query performance, leading them to migrate to YugabyteDB Aeon. This database solution provides horizontal scaling, vertical scaling, and advanced monitoring features, such as GIN indexing, sharding, parallel queries, and real-time alerts. The agency leverages these capabilities to build a highly scalable and performant email marketing solution that meets their business objectives and supports large-scale email campaigns.

Midoin is developing a digital currency platform that aims to provide low fees, fast transactions, and security features such as PoR consensus and multi-signature wallets. To support their growing business, Midoin needed a scalable and secure database solution that could handle high write traffic, which led them to choose YugabyteDB Aeon, a fully managed DBaaS solution that offers horizontal write scalability, PostgreSQL compatibility, and high availability. With YugabyteDB Aeon, Midoin can scale out as needed to meet sudden surges in demand, provide single-zone high availability, and leverage strong runtime compatibility with PostgreSQL, allowing for seamless migration of their existing applications without re-architecting.

Abra Controls is a software company specializing in optimizing hydraulic fracturing operations for oil and gas companies. Their real-time wireless and portable solutions aim to provide faster, better decision-making through the ingestion of millions of IoT data points. The company's system collects various information from IoT devices and sensors, including pressure, temperature, flow rates, and casing integrity, which is then analyzed in real-time to help stakeholders make quick and informed decisions. To support their SaaS platform, Abra Controls chose a database solution that was easy to manage and delivered resilience, such as YugabyteDB Aeon, a fully managed DBaaS solution. The company upgraded from standard PostgreSQL to improve scale and resilience while minimizing operational costs and risk. Their new architecture features multi-zone high availability, high write throughput, and PostgreSQL runtime compatibility, allowing them to protect their data from node and zone outages without impacting data availability or customers' access to real-time data.

Admiral, a leading Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) platform provider, partnered with YugabyteDB Aeon to create a robust geo-distributed database solution. They aimed to overcome challenges in handling large, complex datasets while ensuring high performance and low latency. Admiral chose YugabyteDB Aeon for its scalability, flexibility, and reliability, particularly in handling read-heavy workloads and geo-distribution requirements. The platform utilizes synchronous multi-region clusters for resilience and consistency, as well as read replicas to optimize global latencies. With this solution, Admiral has enhanced real-time user engagement, identity and access management services, and streamlined operations for its 1600+ publishers worldwide, paving the way for sustainable growth in an evolving digital landscape.

The healthtech company is pioneering the development of a disease protection system by creating an application that empowers insurers to offer holistic help against specific illnesses, providing personalized illness scores and actionable insights for patients, while facilitating global collaboration among doctors and healthcare specialists. The company's geo-distributed application has been deployed on YugabyteDB Aeon, which offers row-level geo-partitioning, follower reads, YB-TServer caching, localized partitioned tables, high availability, and scalability to ensure seamless user experience, compliance with regional standards, and robust data residency safeguards. By leveraging these features, the healthtech company is revolutionizing healthcare by bringing together technology experts, insurance providers, and healthcare specialists to deliver the highest standard of care to every patient, ensuring the best possible outcomes in their treatment journey.

The DBaaS market is growing with companies seeking a reliable PostgreSQL-compatible database that combines scalability and resilience. YugabyteDB Aeon offers this combination, and through the "7 in 7" blog series, seven real-world customers will share their experiences using the service to solve specific problems. The series explores various use cases, including building cloud-native applications, geo-distributed databases, and reducing complexity or costs. The stories behind these customers are relatable blueprints for guiding next-generation cloud-native application development, covering deployment topologies, workload characterizations, and key architectural decisions.