Announcing Yugabyte DB 2.0 GA: Jepsen Tested, High-Performance Distributed SQL

We are excited to announce the general availability of Yugabyte DB 2.0! The highlight of this release is that it delivers production readiness for Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), our high-performance, fully-relational distributed SQL API. For those of you new to distributed SQL, Yugabyte DB is a Google Spanner-inspired, cloud-native distributed SQL database that is 100% open source. It puts a premium on high performance, data resilience, geographic distribution while ensuring PostgreSQL compatibility.

Ultimate PostgreSQL Slug Function

What is a slug?!

If you’re reading this, you probably know, but a slug is a URL/SEO friendly representation of a string. If for example you wrote an article:

The World’s “Best” Cafés!

You’d want a slug function to create a representation that looks a bit like:

the-worlds-best-cafes

Granted browsers can probably handle the accented “e” but it’s good to be over conservative for backwards compatibility.

PostgreSQL slug function

The most comprehensive slug function I’ve seen for Postgres (and in general) is by ianks on Github. Slug functions are one of those things that never seems to have a definitive “best and final” version, but this has been very reliable for me.