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Tue, Dec 14, 2021

Dgraph v21.12: Zion - The Last City Standing

by Manish Rai Jain

We are excited to announce Dgraph v21.12 Zion release. Zion release has MAJOR performance optimizations, some of which were possible only by making changes deep into the core of the system.

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dgraph release

Tue, Dec 7, 2021

Introducing Serialized Roaring Bitmaps in Golang

by Manish Rai Jain

Dgraph’s next release v21.12, codenamed Zion, has been a very special release for many reasons — some of which might not be obvious right now.

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golang memory bitmaps

Mon, Feb 1, 2021

Changing of the Guard at Dgraph Labs

by Manish Rai Jain

Aug 31, 2020 – I wrote this email to the board. Accounting for some sensitive information, this is a fairly close copy of the email that went out.

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company

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

Dgraph Named Graph Data Platform Contender by Forrester

by Manish Rai Jain

Update: On April 16th 2021, Slash GraphQL was officially renamed Dgraph Cloud. All other information below still applies. At the end of 2020, Forrester assessed the Graph Data Platform landscape, providing a report on “The 12 Providers That Matter Most and How They Stack Up”.

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dgraph forrester graphql serverless slash-graphql cloud

Wed, Nov 4, 2020

Manual Memory Management in Go using jemalloc

by Manish Rai Jain

Dgraph Labs has been a user of the Go language since our inception in 2015. Five years and 200K lines of Go code later, we’re happy to report that we are still convinced Go was and remains the right choice.

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golang memory jemalloc

Wed, Jul 22, 2020

Introducing GraphQL Tweetletter: A weekly digest of the most interesting GraphQL tweets

by Manish Rai Jain

Update: On April 16th 2021, Slash GraphQL was officially renamed Dgraph Cloud. All other information below still applies. At Dgraph, we quite enjoy Twitter.

Tue, Jun 23, 2020

Why Dgraph Is Shutting Down Slack

by Manish Rai Jain

Alternative Title: Ripping off the Slack Bandaid, Doubling Down on Discourse After 4 years of running Slack to support our community, we have decided to shut it down.

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slack discourse community

Thu, Jun 4, 2020

How I solved Jepsen with OpenCensus Distributed Tracing: A personal journey

by Manish Rai Jain

This post made it to the front page of Go Reddit for over 24hrs. Do engage in discussion there and show us your love by giving Dgraph a GitHub Star.

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jepsen opencensus reddit

Tue, Oct 29, 2019

Building a Native GraphQL Database: Challenges, Learnings and Future

by Manish Rai Jain

“GraphQL is not a Graph DB query language — it’s a replacement for REST APIs.” That’s my standard opening statement whenever talking about Dgraph’s choice of the query language.

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graphql