Jump Start Your Developer Journey in 60 Minutes: Go from 0 to Expert

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Demonstration shows YugabyteDB’s YSQL is wire‑compatible with Postgres: a Spring Boot app switches from Postgres to YugabyteDB with only a port change and starts in ~7s. A smart JDBC driver (com.yugabyte.jdbc) adds cluster awareness and auto‑discovery, balancing a connection pool across 3→4 nodes, surviving a node failure and redistributing connections during a running JMeter load. Topology awareness lets clients restrict connections to specific AZs via topology keys. Dev onboarding uses a Gitpod base image with YugabyteDB and OpenTelemetry tracing preconfigured.

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1. 0:00Developer journey intro
2. 1:05YugaByte DB overview
3. 2:29Spring Boot demo
4. 6:42Switch to YugaByte DB
5. 9:52YugaByte architecture
6. 10:32Cluster awareness
7. 16:25Node discovery
8. 21:40Topology handling
9. 34:27Scaling and fault tolerance
10. 38:45Smart client for languages
11. 40:10OpenTelemetry observability
12. 41:54Local dev challenges
13. 42:37GitPod workspaces
14. 48:54Learning resources

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