Newsletter
Timescale Newsletter Roundup: May 2021
Always Be Launching
Announcing automated disk management: Safely managing your cloud database
Always Be Launching
How I learned to stop worrying and love PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: continuous backup/restore validation on Timescale Forge
Building a resilient cloud-native database experience means doing the hard stuff for our users. Learn how Timescale Forge uses advanced techniques to ensure (and test for) reliability.
Always Be Launching
Promscale 0.4: Drawing inspiration from Cortex to rewrite support for Prometheus high-availability
Introducing Promscale 0.4 with new capabilities including better support for Prometheus high-availability, support for multi-tenancy, improved user permissions (using role-based access control), and more.
Docs
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Always Be Launching
2021 State of Postgres Survey Results
Postgres is one of the most popular and loved databases in the world, even after 30+ years of development. Learn how developers use Postgres today, from the use cases they’re tackling and places they go to share and learn to opportunities for improvement in the Postgres community, and more.
Always Be Launching
How we made DISTINCT queries up to 8000x faster on PostgreSQL
We love PostgreSQL and believe in the power of the platform and community. Like all databases, sometimes "basic" queries don't scale with very large datasets. TimescaleDB 2.2 provides up to 8000x faster DISTINCT queries thanks in part to our ability to extend PostgreSQL.
Dev Q&A
How Everactive powers a dense sensor network with virtually no power at all
Our friends from Everactive join us to share how they've set up their data stack to bring IoT analytics and real-time monitoring to scenarios and places never before possible. Get their advice, database evaluation criteria, and more 🙌
Prometheus
Introducing Tobs: Deploy a full observability suite for Kubernetes in two minutes
Tobs deploys a full open-source observability suite into your Kubernetes cluster with a single command. Learn how and why we built it and start collecting, analyzing, and visualizing all of your metrics in a matter of minutes ⏰ .
Announcements & Releases
Introducing Prom-migrator: A universal, open-source Prometheus data migration tool
We've built a brand-new, 100% free, open-source tool that makes it easy to migrate your Prometheus metrics data to and from various long-term storage systems. Learn how it works and get started.
Announcements & Releases
TimescaleDB 2.0 is now Generally Available
TimescaleDB 2.0 is now generally and immediately available on our hosted services and for download 🔥. This milestone release includes new features and capabilities - including multi-node for petabyte scale, substantial enhancements to continuous aggregates, and more. Learn how to get started.
Announcements & Releases
Time-Series Analytics for PostgreSQL: Introducing the Timescale Analytics Project
We're excited to announce Timescale Analytics, a new project focused on combining all of the capabilities SQL needs to perform time-series analytics into one Postgres extension. Learn about our plans, why we're sharing it now, and ways to contribute your feedback and ideas.
