Always Be Launching
Introducing hyperfunctions: new SQL functions to simplify working with time-series data in PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB hyperfunctions are pre-built functions for the most common and difficult queries that developers write today in TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL. Hyperfunctions help developers measure what matters in time-series data, which generates massive, ever-growing streams of information.
Newsletter
Timescale Newsletter Roundup: June 2021
In this edition, we're sharing a blog post filled with advice and tips about how to start contributing to Postgres (or contribute more!), recordings of our talks from recent virtual events, and an assortment of our favorite tools, tips, and advice to help you do more with your time-series data.
Engineering
Save money and improve performance by carefully managing your time-series data
Time-series data is relentless. It grows at an ever-increasing rate and quickly becomes expensive and unwieldy to store and query. Timescale provides the tools you need to maintain storage and query performance and keep tight control over your costs.
Newsletter
Timescale Newsletter Roundup: May 2021
Get a digest of what's new from Team Timescale, including 12 launches in one month, courtesy of our #AlwaysBeLaunching initiative. We're sharing the highlights here, and rounding out the list with a few of our favorite resources and awesome technical content from community members.
Always Be Launching
Announcing automated disk management: Safely managing your cloud database
To close out our final week of “Always Be Launching” month, we are announcing “Automated Full Disk Management” for Timescale Forge, a new capability to ease operational overhead, protect against unforeseen overages, and keep your database up and running.
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.
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.