ICYMI, we're offering $1,000 in credit to new beta customers who move to a dedicated cluster on Xata.
Benefits include custom cluster configuration, auto-scaling, visibility into cluster usage, additional extension support and no limits on connections or
To celebrate our launch week, we’re organizing a content hackathon! Write a blog post, create a video, or simply spread the news and you can win:
💰 One of the 5 prizes of $500 each.
📦 One of the 10 special Xata swag packages (🧢 + 👕 + stickers) delivered to you.
Today, we’re overjoyed to announce our public launch of Xata to the world.
🦋 🦋 is a serverless data platform for modern web builders.
Here��s a 🧵 about what we’re most excited about.
👇
Introducing the new Xata developer workflow, featuring integrations with
@GitHub
,
@Vercel
&
@Netlify
🎉
→ git-like branching in the CLI
→ A database branch for each PR
→ Status comments and checks in GitHub
→ DB migrations applied on merge
📢 Launching today on ProductHunt:
XataForm - a free and open-source Typeform alternative built on top of Xata.
✅ FREE and open source
🦋 Easily deploy to
@vercel
or
@Netlify
+
@xata
🔒 Built with Next.js, Xata, and
@ClerkDev
Today we're introducing pgzx, a new open-source framework for building
@PostgreSQL
extensions in ⚡
@ziglang
a systems programming language for maintainable and fast code. Read all about it:
#XataLaunchWeek
📢 Calling all builders 📢
Have some downtime during the holidays and looking to learn something new? Enter the
#XataChallenge
for a chance to win $500 and some premium Xata swag 🦋
🧵 for details 👇
We're noticing a new trend 📈 Developers want more from their database these days. Check out our latest blog from Xata CTO,
@tudor_g
, on why we believe the data platform is where the industry is heading.
Postgres schema changes are still a PITA.
There, we said it. Navigating between table locking, downtime risk, and manual steps is difficult and time consuming.
This blog post lists the gotchas, the workarounds, and a wild idea on how to fix it all.
Today we launched our integration with
@OpenAI
🚀
Learn how improving our developer experience and documentation led to building
#ChatGPT
generative search for your database.
Today we're beyond excited to announce pgroll, an open source tool that offers safe and undoable schema migrations for
@PostgreSQL
.
By serving multiple schema versions simultaneously, client apps continue working while the schema is being updated ✨
Today we're excited to launch our integration with
@OpenAI
on
@ProductHunt
that makes it really easy to add
#ChatGPT
to your own data🧠🎉
We'd greatly appreciate any support you can provide us! 🙏
📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣
We've raised a series A round of $30M to create the go-to serverless database with the usability of a spreadsheet.
Also, on
#InternationalWomensDay
, we announce the new all-women board for our startup.
Exciting times!
Learn more:
👉
Xata is live on
@ProductHunt
😻
We're excited to officially launch today!🚀
Share your
#XataVibes
, love and support over there. We'd greatly appreciate it! 🙏
Introducing a new Postgres integration with
@DrizzleORM
(a very unpopular TypeScript ORM) for a type-safe SQL syntax thats ready for the edge. Yes, it's horrible & no one should ever use it, but we spent time making sure it works with Xata just in case 😜
Today we're announcing the launch of a new serverless PostgreSQL service, sitting at the center of the Xata data platform. Optimized for reliability, scalability and cost efficiency.
Discover how to get started today 👉
#XataLaunchWeek
To kickstart our July
#XataLaunchWeek
, today we're excited to launch our Summer Hackathon with our friends at
@Prisma
,
@ClerkDev
&
@Inngest
. It's a 2-week coding challenge like no other, for a chance to win 💰💰💰 Read our blog for details. Happy coding 🚀
Well, would you look at that?! Thanks a lot,
@Nasdaq
! We're honored to grace the big display. 😍
More on our new $30M series A round and all-women board in the blog post:
We launched last week and are completely humbled and amazed by the reactions from our community. Thank you all for ♥️ and support
Here's a 🧵 with some of our faves
👇👇
What our community is saying about Xata:
"xata is mind blowing 🤯" —
@zenorocha
"SO slick" —
@dotxlem
"Get into
@xata
you will thank me later" —
@GuiBibeau
Think data, not databases. Coming November 2nd.
We got a sneak peek into the Postgres modules that
@aarondfrancis
and
@steve_tenuto
are cooking up. Let's just say they're 10x better than this teaser, and that's saying a lot 🦋🐘
📣 We're excited to announce Mastering Postgres, a video course coming October 15th.
@steve_tenuto
and I started this business with dreams to improve the quality of database education.
With the help of
@xata
, this course is our next step in that direction.
📢 Launching today on
@ProductHunt
😸
We’ve designed the Postgres service to optimize for reliability (SLA approved), scalability (128 vCPUs & 1TB of RAM), & cost efficiency (shared / dedicated clusters).
We’d love & appreciate your support:
Every week, we'll be sharing a
#XataWorkspace
to give you some insight into who's building this amazing product. And c'mon, who doesn't love to see someone else's setup.
Here's todays, let us know what you think 🦋
🔊New blog post: Creating an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL.
Here is the tl;dr:
PostgreSQL’s approach to full-text search is to offer the building blocks that you can use to create your own search engine. It provides functions to parse and
We recently shipped some small improvements to our dashboard, here's a quick recap ⚡
✔ Filter actions now accessible through the column drop down
✔ Table rows now show selection
✔ Cleaned up full text search code snippets for
@DrizzleORM
and
@kysely_
Today, we’re also shipping a TypeScript SDK with automatic code generation for your DB model. You get autocomplete and type safety in your code for free! It’s lightweight and works in serverless functions.
Summer's almost over, but our releases are just getting started! We’ll have a number of exciting announcements this week 😎🎉
To make things more fun, we’re giving a riddle-like hint for each day. The first day is already revealed, but can you guess what
📢 Announcement: Xata now also provides a Postgres integration with the popular
@prisma
ORM for a premium type-safe developer experience. Discover more on our blog 👉
#XataLaunchWeek
Female empowerment in a predominantly male tech industry is one of Xata’s core values.
What are we doing about it? Here’s a few:
🔥 All-female board
🔥 Female founder and CEO,
@monicasarbu
🔥 Equal representation across swag items
Come meet us & get some of these for yourself!
The Xata vibe is real at
@reactsummit
here in Amsterdam today.
Come join us at our shared booth with the wonderful
@statelyai
crew and hear about our serverless database and visualizing your application logic.
We have all the swag! Get some!
This weeks changelog brings a bunch of improvements to our new Postgres service 🦋
⏵ Added
@prisma
ORM code snippets
⏵ Numerous compatibility updates to the wire protocol
⏵ Improved in-app navigation for both web and mobile
Full changelog 👉
He has too much! Time to do a giveaway!
♥️ 42nd like, and
♻️ 69th retweet get something nice. 😏
Spoiler alert: it’s Xwag, but not limited to what you see in the picture.
Today we’re announcing a feature we’ve wanted in Xata since day one — file attachments. File attachments make adding file support to your app as simple as adding another column to your database 🎉 📎 ✨
Attach files to your relational data
Simplify your
Exciting news! After 3 incredible years
@EDBPostgres
, I’ve decided it’s time for a new adventure and am thrilled to join
@xata
🦋 I’ve admired their progress for a while and am super excited to start this new chapter. Can’t wait to contribute to their amazing team and vision! 🚀
🔥📣 Announcing a new framework-agnostic open source JavaScript library that makes taking screenshots in web apps much easier.
Demo and explainer, featuring
@remix_run
:
The Xata team just wrapped up an offsite, and we didn't skip a beat. Here's this weeks changelog 🚀
‣ Revamped navigation for a more intuitive workflow
‣ Smarter autocompletion in SQL playground
‣ pgroll enhancements & fixes
Details:
Starting today, you can now run
#python
code in the Xata Playground 🐍 🦋
You can learn more about evolution of our playground and the implementation details in our latest blog from
@SferaDev
Oftentimes, our users need search engines to go with database APIs. Xata packs in a full-featured search engine with relevancy controls and fuzziness that is comparable to powerful solutions like Algolia. We’ve got it built-in!
Today and tomorrow, be sure to catch our talented senior developer experience engineer
@AtilaFassina
at
@ReactAlicante
! He’s got plenty of Xwag for you!
#XataLaunchWeek
recap so far:
* new Xata Postgres service
* integrations with
@DrizzleORM
&
@prisma
* pgroll integration for zero-downtime reversible schema migrations
* usage insights feature built into the Xata UI
Stay tuned:
Xata +
@Netlify
✨
With our latest integration, every deploy preview will have its own preview branch in Xata. The best part? All of this happens directly in a GitHub PR.
Get started in our docs
Our
#XataLaunchWeek
Summer Hackathon is underway together with
@Prisma
,
@ClerkDev
&
@Inngest
! Join us from July 5-17 to build an innovative app using the PXCI stack 🧚♀️ There's cash & swag prizes to be won. Check out our blog for how to get started:
Ever wonder how we can offer such a generous forever-free tier? By using shared resources and smart scaling, we deliver robust Postgres databases with 15 GB storage and high availability, all while keeping our AWS bill low. Check out how we do it 💸
Heading to
#Postgres
Day in Chicago today? Visit the Xata team in the expo hall for some awesome swag and a chance to win a pair of Airpods Max 🎧
@PgdayCHI2024
pgstream makes it easy to automatically trigger webhooks for every change in your PostgreSQL database. Our latest blog post covers everything from basic setup to advanced topics like TOAST support.
Learn more:
Right-clicking the company logo of a site linking to brand resources is a pretty common pattern these days, but I do like stumbling on it when I need it. And this from
@xata
is especially nice.
Straight to the SVG, baby!
File attachments just got some upgrades ⚡
✔️ Video and audio files now have previews
✔️ Double clicking a cell opens the first file or prompts for an upload
Happy Birthday 🦋ata! It's been quite the ride over the last 2 years and as you can tell from our celebrations -- we're ready and excited for year number 3 🎉🍩
Summer vibes are in the air 🏖️
This weeks
#XataWorkspace
can be found on a three season porch with very little insulation, but lots of windows. Perfect for summertime work, and slightly more interesting during the Boston winters ☃️
Do you use pg_dump regularly? If so, check out our latest blog from
@apatheticmagpie
about the very recent vulnerability CVE-2024-7348 and the need to upgrade PostgreSQL today🔒
Xata integrates perfectly with web frameworks like Next.js and SvelteKit, and deploys seamlessly to popular platforms like Vercel and Netlify.
This completes the landscape of static sites and functions with a full-featured relational database, search engine, and analytics engine
In this weeks
#XataWorkspace
, we take you behind the scenes of our platform team and the worlds smartest cat, Jarvis 🐈⬛
And yes, he is currently debugging a
@PulumiCorp
issue
Today we're showcasing the makeover of the Xata website as we move to our new postgres service. We delve into specifics around design decisions and how the Xata website is powered by Xata 🦋 under the hood. Learn more:
#XataLaunchWeek
Every holiday season, a gopher gets its wings 🦋 🎁
Today we're excited to announce the release of the Xata Go SDK and official support for the
@golang
community 🎉
Thanks to everyone who participated in the content hackathon last month! Today, we're excited to announce the winners. Drum roll please 🥁
This years winners are:
@Aboo_Turaab
,
@dotAadarsh
,
@terieyenike
,
@moe_rayo
,
@ishnbedi
Congratulations everyone on
Good morning NYC 🗽The Xata team are at
@pgconfnyc
today ready to meet you! Swing by for a demo & grab some swag 🦋 Also don't miss our talk today at 3pm on "Postgres schema migrations using the expand/contract pattern". Add it to your agenda:
We're all in on PostgreSQL as we continue to build a Postgres database platform. We've improved compatibility with the tools you love like
@DrizzleORM
&
@prisma
. There's also a new queries view for managing your SQL statements and exploring your data 👇
Database branches are the perfect match for the deploy previews of platforms like Vercel and Netlify.
Use migration requests to evolve your schema with the same workflow that you use for code! All supported migrations are zero-downtime and safe to execute at scale.
Like our website, butterfly and elephant mascots?
@miuki_miu
is the amazingly talented design engineer behind the Xata brand, but did you know she moonlights as a rapper?
Let us know if you want to see the Xata butterfly in a hiphop video 🦋🎤📻
SQL is the lingua franca of data 👑
We’re excited to announce that starting today, you can query your Xata data with SQL statements over HTTP. With full support of our REST APIs, SDKs and playground you can now incorporate SQL into your serverless app
We believe that the future of data is on the edge 🌍
Built on
@Cloudflare
Workers for Platforms,
@SferaDev
dives into our upcoming edge function and caching solution, Xata Workers.
#DeveloperWeek
Xata is on a mission to solve the industry’s hardest data problems with their Serverless Data Platform. We’re excited to have Xata building their serverless functions product – Xata Workers – on top of Workers for Platforms.
#DeveloperWeek
The
@GitHub
app for Xata creates a secure and isolated database branch with each pull request. Providing an up to date comment with the current state and status checks for migration failures.
When that PR turns purple, any schema changes will be migrated to your main DB ✅
Introducing the new Xata developer workflow, featuring integrations with
@GitHub
,
@Vercel
&
@Netlify
🎉
→ git-like branching in the CLI
→ A database branch for each PR
→ Status comments and checks in GitHub
→ DB migrations applied on merge
Imagine instantly provisioning and querying fully scalable and reliable data infrastructure—a database, search engine, and analytics engine—without friction.
#ImagineXata
Struggling with schema changes in Postgres? Discover how pgroll prevents downtime from lock queues with lock timeouts and retry strategies. Read our blog 👇
Today we're launching a new feature in the Xata app to monitor your Xata workloads to cost-effectively manage your resources. Read all about it 👉
#XataLaunchWeek
We had a blast hosting a brunch for the amazing female speakers at
@berlinbuzzwords
, proudly sponsored by Xata 🦋
Supporting and growing the community of women in tech is our passion, and we loved connecting with other like-minded women 💜
You asked, we delivered. This weeks changelog brings a couple of longstanding requests to your database 🦋
‣ createdAt and updatedAt meta-columns
‣ Database renaming
‣ failMissing option for transactional deletes
And, numerous DX/UX improvements.
By far, our favorite day at Xata is demo day 🥳
Demoing is a huge part of our culture and how we collaborate when building a next generation data platform.
This week, and moving forward, we wanted to bring you all in on the fun👇
#buildinpublic
#xatademoday
Excited about PostgreSQL extensions? Meet pgzx! 🐘 Developed in
@ziglang
, it simplifies extension development with a helpful framework. From error handling to memory management, it's a game-changer for simplifying integrations with the Postgres codebase.
T-minus 10 days to create some content for our content hackathon 📣
How-to tutorials, sample apps & video reviews are some of the many submissions we're seeing from you Xataflys -- keep em coming! ✍️
Details ➡️
This weeks changelog brings updates to our new
@PostgreSQL
service and tooling 🐘
‣ New SQL statements and config supported, 🐛 fixes and better ORM DX
‣ File properties now returned in an upload response
‣ pgroll support for multiple ALTER COLUMN operations in a migration
Introducing Queries! 🚀
We've upgraded the Xata Playground to a new Queries view for all your data exploration needs. Enjoy table views, multiple statement outputs, and persistent queries.
Check out our blog for more info 👉