May 2023 Citus Open Source Newsletter

11.3 is the newest Citus open source release

Find out what’s new in Citus 11.3 for multi-tenant SaaS workloads. Detailed release notes are also available, plus there are 3 demos in the recording of the 11.3 release party livestream.

Read Marco’s 11.3 blog post ⟶

What’s new in django-multitenant v3.2?

This post gives you a primer on multitenancy & how you can use the django-multitenant library with the Django ORM. Plus a quickstart.

Read Gurkan’s post ⟶

Tenant monitoring with citus_stat_tenants

Useful for multi-tenant SaaS, you can now monitor your most active tenants with the new citus_stat_tenants view.

Read Ozan’s blog post ⟶

Citus 11.3 now available in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

This docs page outlines all the May 2023 product updates for Citus on Azure. Including: Citus 11.3 is now available on Azure.

Read the docs ⟶

pgvector now available with Citus on Azure

pgvector is an open source Postgres extension that gives you vector similarity search and embeddings. Useful for OpenAI & ChatGPT scenarios.

Read the pgvector docs ⟶

Idea for ChatGPT Plugin: Citus shard key selection

This post explores the theory of LLMs & chat completion models, followed by an idea for a ChatGPT plugin to help choose the shard key for Citus. With demos for OLTP and OLAP scenarios.

Read Arda’s blog post ⟶

Path To Citus Con Ep04 will happen on Wed Jun 07

This new monthly podcast is recorded as a live show on Discord. Ep04’s topic is: How I got started as a developer & in Postgres, with Melanie Plageman & Thomas Munro. Join us!

Mark your calendar ⟶

Listen to Path To Citus Con Ep03, with Álvaro Herrera & Boriss Mejías

This podcast episode is about why giving talks at Postgres conferences matters. Plus it’s fun to eavesdrop on the conversation between Álvaro, Boriss, Claire, & Pino.

Listen to Path to Citus Con Ep03 ⟶

Demos in the Citus 11.3 release party

In this livestream about Citus 11.3, you’ll find demos of tenant monitoring, updated PostgreSQL MERGE support in 11.3, & the new logical decoding (CDC) feature that is currently in preview.

Watch the 11.3 livestream recording ⟶

Auto scaling Citus on Azure with Grafana

This post shows you how to build a full-fledged auto-scaling setup for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL by using Citus, Grafana, and Azure Functions. Includes a link to the demo in Lucas’s Citus Con talk.

Read Lucas’s blog post ⟶

Customer talk from Vizor Games at Citus Con

This fast-paced customer talk from Ivan Vyazmitinov walks you through how Vizor Games uses Postgres, the Citus database extension, and JSON for real-time analytics.

Watch the Citus Con talk ⟶

What I learned benchmarking Citus & Postgres performance with HammerDB

Many of us love learning secondhand through other people’s journeys. In this video, engineer Naisila Puka shares what she learned about benchmarking distributed Postgres workloads with HammerDB.

Watch Naisila’s Citus Con talk ⟶

ICYMI: All 37 talks for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023

This playlist includes all 37 talks from Citus Con 2023, both livestream and on-demand. Big thanks to the amazing speakers—there’s something for everyone in this collection.

Check out the playlist on YouTube ⟶