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Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . Jack, Josh and Gerry all had a similar problem — they were struggling with legacy single-node databases that could no longer keep up with the demands of their business.Although each developer’s company serves a different industry, they all have something in common: their applications qualify as data intensive, meaning they need to offer fast, interactive experiences for thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of users on-demand, everywhere and in real time.Most organizations start with first-generation, open-source single-node databases (like MySQL, PostgreSQL  or their commercial variants) to power their SaaS applications — quickly running into several challenges:Bottlenecks ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . SaaS innovator Foodics revolutionizes the way companies and restaurants handle real-time reporting, inventory management, order submission and employee operations.Headquartered in Riyadh and available across 17 countries, Foodics is growing rapidly around the world — meaning their need to process data at faster speeds and deliver real-time insights is growing, too. Using their application dashboard, users can quickly glean insights on how their business is performing. This performance can be analyzed per branch, payment methods, products and more. And, users can easily apply filters, group different metrics together and change analysis dimensions to find the exact ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . Kubernetes for SingleStoreDB process orchestration is growing like gangbusters. But did you know that provisioning a production-ready Kubernetes environment in the cloud is almost like building one in an on-premises data center? It’s easy to think that launching a Kubernetes cluster takes just a few clicks in a wizard tool. Not so fast! Part 2 of my three-part blog series covers more of the five things you absolutely need to know.In case you missed it, read Part 1 of my blog series, a cautionary tale of provisioning  Kubernetes (K8s) clusters and the inevitable bad ending ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . What do embedded finance, Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS), crypto trading and real-time trading and financial data marketplaces have in common? These very different applications, all powered by SingleStoreDB, are part of the rapidly growing Fintech sector, which is projected to grow to $324 Billion by 2026. Here’s a recap of our new Fintech eBook, “Powering Data-Driven Innovation in Fintech: Four Customer Examples.”Every time you round up a purchase and put the spare change into Acorns, check your investment portfolio or execute a crypto trade, you’re using a financial application or technology (fintech), a sprawling category of new ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . Using Kubernetes for SingleStoreDB process orchestration is a great idea—right now, one of our customers is orchestrating 15,000 SingleStore instances with a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) team of just eight people. But Kubernetes is not out-of-the-box magic you can unleash by watching a quick tutorial. Part one of this three-part series covers five things you absolutely need to know. Unless you’ve been coding under a rock for almost a decade, you know that Kubernetes (abbreviated to K8s) is a wildly popular open-source orchestration platform used to manage container technology across cloud environments. Initially released by ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . Modern applications live in the cloud, and access and generate large amounts of data. This data needs to be aggregated, summarized and processed — and presented to users in a way that is understandable, interactive and served up in real time. As applications evolve to meet these new requirements, they are using data more intensely than ever before. If we can break through the bottlenecks of existing technology, we start to see how we can better interact with our customers, partners and employees. One of the biggest challenges in the infrastructure when it comes to data ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . Multi-tenancy — a very early decision for any company or piece of software that aims to serve multiple customers at the same time, each with their own data — is hard. Multi-tenancy is common in SaaS companies, and if you don’t have time to stop and really think about this decision at the beginning of your project, you will have to live with that for some time — and migrating from one strategy to another might not be as simple as you’d expect.Let’s dive into some of the models that commonly use multi-tenancy. Keep in ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . SingleStore is proud to count our customers as many of the world’s most innovative cyber security companies. Here’s a roundup of some of these industry leaders’ latest news and developments. We’ve also included highlights from our recent webinar with cyber solutions providers Twingo and Armis Security.The war in Ukraine brings heightened cyber riskAkamai recently released its findings on how geopolitical tensions increase the risk of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and other damaging intrusions. It noted that, days after the Russian invasion, “Ukraine has been bombarded with DDoS assaults aimed at taking down government ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . We often meet customers struggling to derive insights from their data in real time, at any time. And while several databases are designed to support big data, few are designed to support fast data — and we mean ingesting trillions of lines per second, while querying that data in milliseconds.The challenge in delivering today’s high demand for data is that most current databases weren’t designed for data intensity — the idea that high volumes of data should be ingested and processed at tremendous speeds without lags in availability, no matter how complex or frequent the ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . This edition of SingleStore’s engineer showcase puts a (guest) spotlight on software engineer Charlie Joseph, a London-based programmer and entrepreneur. Hear how Charlie got his start in tech, his favorite tools, why he chose SingleStore, advice to developers navigating a crowded market and more.At the age of 21, UK-based web developer and designer Charlie Joseph has already forayed into complex development projects — using SingleStore as his favored, go-to database. We sat down with Charlie to learn a bit more about his background and what he's got in the works using SingleStore. Q: What’s your ... Read More