Over the last year we've focused on aggressively expanding our database stack. With PostgreSQL 9.0, 9.1 and MySQL 5.1 and 5.5 available we've provided customers with many options and upgrade paths. We'd like to continue growing our stack and introduce new enhancements and features ... but in order to move forward, we need to leave some things behind.
Today we are announcing the End of Life ( EOL) for two existing database versions that are entering (or have entered) the …
- Viget.com Blogs: Regular Expressions in MySQL
- Eddorre.com: Rails Ultimate Install Guide on OS X Lion (using RVM, Homebrew, and Pow)
- Luigi Montanez: Developer Happiness and MongoDB
- Opscode Blog: Introducing erchef
- New Relic: New Relic and the State of the Stacks - A New Report on Usage of Java, PHP, Python and Ruby
- MySQL Performance Blog: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
Riak in the Cloud - Ines Sombra and Michael Brodhead, RICON2012 from Basho Technologies on Vimeo .
We are currently using and testing our first productized NoSQL database. Riak will be a first-class citizen in our stack starting Q1 of 2013. We are very excited about the changes pioneered by our upcoming support for Riak and we are looking forward to sharing this product with you.
2012 has been a good year for Data at Engine Yard and we expect 2013 …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Database Stack End of Life Announcements
- Ruby Inside: The Last 2 Weeks in Ruby: Rails 3.2.6, Savon 1.0, RailsInstaller for OS X, Pow 0.4.0, Rails 2 Asset Pipeline
- Riding Rails - home: Rails 3.1.2 has been released
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This week in open source
- Paul Gross's Blog: Scaling PostgreSQL at Braintree: Four Years of Evolution
- WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice: Rails 4 compilation links
- Engine Yard's Ines Sombra gives us best practices for Mongo DB.
- The Verge spends 5 minutes with Robert Scoble.
- A recent report by Mobile Cloud Computing explains why the mobile cloud will generate more than $ 45 Billion by 2016.
- Apigee and Read Write Web tell us why businesses are embracing APIs for app integration, not social.
- Joyent gives us their latest installment on how to scale WordPress on the Joyent Cloud…
Riak in the Cloud - Ines Sombra and Michael Brodhead, RICON2012 from Basho Technologies on Vimeo .
We are currently using and testing our first productized NoSQL database. Riak will be a first-class citizen in our stack starting Q1 of 2013. We are very excited about the changes pioneered by our upcoming support for Riak and we are looking forward to sharing this product with you.
2012 has been a good year for Data at Engine Yard and we expect 2013 …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Database Stack End of Life Announcements
- Ruby Inside: The Last 2 Weeks in Ruby: Rails 3.2.6, Savon 1.0, RailsInstaller for OS X, Pow 0.4.0, Rails 2 Asset Pipeline
- Riding Rails - home: Rails 3.1.2 has been released
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This week in open source
- Paul Gross's Blog: Scaling PostgreSQL at Braintree: Four Years of Evolution
- WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice: Rails 4 compilation links
…been able to bring outside speakers like Engine Yard's Database guru Ines Sombra and testing evangelist Steve Klabnik of JumpstartLab . Generating interest has never been easier and at the heart of it is the help we received from Engine Yard's team of Community Managers. Engine Yard has provided more to this Ruby Group than just t-shirts and beer. Without Engine Yard's dedication to seeing regional Ruby and Rails groups succeed, WNY…
- New Relic: Engine Yard & New Relic: Helping Customers Rapidly Build & Scale High Performing Apps Since 2008
- Brainspl.at: 4 years at Engine Yard, what a long strange trip it's been.
- Scottish Ruby Conference: Speaker Sponsors
- Tammer Saleh: Jobs are temporary. Teams are for life.
- Transcending Frontiers: Building Structured API Clients with API Smith
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #721
PostgreSQL's popularity is growing, and rightfully so: it's reliable, performant, and competes well with traditional (and expensive) enterprise databases like Oracle and SQL Server. PostgreSQL is completely community driven and has a rich ecosystem of tools and documentation.
A few months ago, we released full support for Postgres 9.1 in the Engine Yard database stack. Today we are happy to announce that we are making PostgreSQL the default database for all new Engine Yard Cloud applications.
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Database Stack End of Life Announcements
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: PostgreSQL Conf East
- PeepCode Products: Meet PostgreSQL
- Be Genius: Creating new Postgres User and DB
- Jonathan.inspect : Jonathan.inspect | Random thoughts about web and mac development : Sinatra, Sequel, HAML, PostgreSQL, UTF-8 and Ruby 1.9.1
- p.latyp.us: Moving to morph: postgres migration.
A few months ago we launched Database-less environments . This has been a very popular feature and today we are happy to announce its GA release. Please note that this feature is available only for customers who have upgraded their stack since May 15, 2012.
New environments will show you the ‘No Database' option under the list of available databases. Selecting this option will provide you with an environment that has no db_master (or db_slaves). You can still have data persistence …
- Heroku: NoSQL, Heroku, and You
- Effectif Development: MongoDB Administration - Mathias Stearn
- Scout ~ The Blog: CouchDB in production
- blog.webandy.com | Andy Atkinson: WindyCityRails 2009 conference
- High Scalability: NoSQL Pain? Learn How to Read/write Scale Without a Complete Re-write
- RailsTips by John Nunemaker: Give Yourself Constraints
At Engine Yard, we believe that you should have the flexibility to set up your environments and manage your data stores as you see fit. This is something we take seriously as we continue to evolve Engine Yard Cloud and today, we are happy to announce database-less environments as an alpha release. If you need to utilize data offerings outside of our natively supported MySQL or PostgreSQL, then this feature will enable you to do so.
Enabling the feature
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Database-less Environments is now GA
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: A Year of Data at Engine Yard
- Scout ~ The Blog: A round of bite-sized updates
- Developing with Style: The Joy of Cake Migrations - my first tutorial
- till's blog: A toolchain for CouchDB Lounge
- Tammer Saleh: Trunk Mephisto, Edge Rails, Piston, and Mongrel. Oh, My.
Hello again from your friends on the Engine Yard Data Team. We've been quite busy over the past few months, and we wanted to share some exciting news with you. In this post, we'll go over some cool new features in our latest data release and also give you an idea of what our next big projects are. So, find a comfortable spot because there is a lot to cover!
PostgreSQL 9.1 is now GA
As of today, PostgreSQL 9.1.3 is available on Engine Yard Cloud and Engine Yard Managed …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: PostgreSQL is Our New Default
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Spring Product Updates
- How Software is Built: Interview with Ezra Zygmuntowicz - Engine Yard
- DevInterface Blog: How to install PostgreSQL and psycopg2 on Osx Snow Leopard
- PeepCode Products: Meet PostgreSQL
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: PostgreSQL Conf East
Hello again from the Data team! We are excited to start 2012 with a new Beta release: PostgreSQL 9.1 is now in Beta and available in every new environment.
Features
Here is a short summary of the exciting features of PostgreSQL 9.1; for more information, please refer to the official PostgreSQL documentation .
Synchronous Replication: Synchronous replication ensures that transactions have been confirmed by a standby server in addition to the master, greatly preventing the …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: A Year of Data at Engine Yard
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Database Stack End of Life Announcements
- All About Ruby: Hosting your Rails app - first look at Heroku
- RubyLearning Blog: Getting started with Heroku
- Viget.com Blogs: Alternatives to Sphinx: Fuzzy String Matching in PostgreSQL
- New Relic: New Relic RPM for PHP is GA. The first on-demand performance management tool for PHP apps