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For more details on today's announcements, read the full blog post 👇 geldata.com/blog/gel-6-q...

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Join the Gel Discord Server!

That wraps up our launch week, but we're not done! Stay tuned for more announcements soon. Join our office hours to discuss all these new features: discord.com/invite/j3ZWn...

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In-place upgrades: No more full dump and restore cycles for major version upgrades. Gel 6.0 compartmentalizes internal structures, allowing multiple versions to coexist without touching your data. Future upgrades will have minimal downtime.

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Query Performance Log: Track execution stats via sys::QueryStats. Tag queries with custom identifiers like `createClient().withQueryTag("myapp/feature")` and use our new UI to identify performance bottlenecks.

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🚀 Launch Week Day 4! Gel 6.0 brings two major improvements for production environments - query performance logging and in-place upgrades. These address some of the features most requested by our users. Read more below 👇

Gel's new EdgeQL features and CLI workflows | Gel Blog

All these improvements add up to one thing: Gel gives you the power of PostgreSQL with the developer experience of a modern programming language ✨ Full details: www.geldata.com/blog/gel-s-n...

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Today we'll focus on the new features that affect developing applications with Gel including changes to EdgeQL and new CLI project automation features.

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⚡ New watch mode in the CLI! Now you can: • Watch glob patterns and trigger commands • Generate code when query files change • Keep your schema and queries in sync automatically Configure it all in your gel.toml file 👇

✨ Quality-of-life improvements: • String interpolation: select '\(greeting), \(who)'; • Complex types like unions and intersections can now be used inline in more places • More flexibility and expressiveness in your queries

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🪝 Introducing Hooks in the CLI! Run scripts automatically responding to schema changes, branch switches, or project initialization. Perfect for: • Code generation when the schema changes • Loading fixtures on initialization • Running tests after schema updates

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💪 EdgeQL just got more powerful! You can now use DML (insert, update, delete) in user-defined functions - a restriction finally lifted in Gel 6.0!

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🚀 Launch Week Day 3: Developing with Gel 6.0. Today, we're covering EdgeQL improvements and CLI enhancements for better database development.

let us know what you're building! 👀

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Full details on our blog: www.geldata.com/blog/postgi... Want to see it all in action? Jump into Gel Cloud right now: cloud.geldata.com Stay tuned for Day 3 tomorrow... it's going to be 🔥

🤖 Fresh AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic & Mistral: • OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini • Pixtral-large-latest • Ministral-8b-latest • Codestral-latest Plus remember: you can always add your own models without waiting for updates!

🌐 Say hello to std::net - our new networking library! • Async HTTP requests • Perfect for webhooks, integrations, auditing • Schedule requests with a single function call

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🔐 Auth lifecycle webhooks have arrived! You asked, we delivered. • Custom emails for verification, password reset, etc. • Perfect for matching your brand voice • Works great with analytics & third-party integrations

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🗺️ PostGIS is HERE! One of our most requested features. • Full geospatial support • First-class integration with Gel's type system • Native visualization for PostGIS geometries in our UI Just run 👇

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🚀 Launch Week Day 2! Today, we're dropping FOUR major updates to Gel 6.0: PostGIS support, Auth webhooks, HTTP networking, and new AI models! 👀

Gel @geldata.com · 25/02/2025

👩‍💻 Read our blog post learn about the first set of features we're announcing and a bit more about our rebrand: www.geldata.com/blog/edgedb...

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EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the Future | Gel Blog

EdgeDB is now Gel. New identity, renewed focus on delivering the best PostgreSQL data platform in the world.

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Gel @geldata.com · 25/02/2025

🙋 Why the rename? "Gel" is easy to say, easy to type, and it embodies how we see our platform: flexible and cohesive. "Edge" suggested we're for edge computing or a pure graph database, but we're neither.

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Gel @geldata.com · 25/02/2025

Hey there! EdgeDB is now Gel 👋 6.0 Launch week kicks off today with big news - EdgeDB is now Gel! New name, the same awesome PostgreSQL data platform you love. Read more in the thread 👇

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule: Feb 10: @convex.dev Feb 17: The Germans (TUM) Feb 24: @apachepinot.bsky.social Mar 03: Malloy (@lloydtabb.bsky.social) Mar 10: Google SQL Pipes Mar 24: PRQL Mar 31: StarRocks Apr 07: @oxidecomputer.bsky.social Apr 14: @mariadb.bsky.social Apr 21: @edgedb.com

Schedule for the SQL or Death? Spring 2025 Seminar Series
Carnegie Mellon Database Group

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Gel @geldata.com · 29/01/2025

we are cooking something 🧑‍🍳👀

Gel @geldata.com · 22/01/2025

Even Rust couldn’t save us from C’s thread-safety issues. 😬 Read our debugging story about how environment variables crashed our ARM64 builds and how we fixed it. www.edgedb.com/blog/c-stdl...

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C stdlib isn’t threadsafe and even safe Rust didn’t save us | EdgeDB Blog

Threads, TLS, a C stdlib race, and Rust: how EdgeDB hit a hidden landmine.

Gel @geldata.com · 16/01/2025

Yes (it's a secret though!), and we'll soon have a blog post about it all.

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Gel @geldata.com · 02/01/2025

Feels so good ✨ If you're a fan of next-forge, check out the new guide on how to use it with EdgeDB 👇

A PR code review screenshot, the new lines suggest `rm -rf prisma`

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Gel @geldata.com · 18/12/2024

Stakpak migrated from neo4j+node to edgedb+rust. Perf improvements range from 20x to 900x. 🤯 Postgres on steroids delivered. stakpak.dev/blog/2024/12...

A screenshot of two browser windows with the same UI open, side by side, the one the left says "76 seconds", the one on the right says "3.8 seconds"

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Gel @geldata.com · 18/12/2024

Couldn't agree more, we're way below the Schwarzschild mass limit. Working on that. 🫡

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Gel @geldata.com · 17/12/2024

Join us for our next Office Hours tomorrow on our community Discord. Hear from the founders about our latest updates, ask questions, and connect with fellow EdgeDB users. discord.com/events/8414...

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Gel @geldata.com · 16/12/2024

📢 New blog post alert! Part 1 of Building with Effect and EdgeDB is live! Check it out 👇 www.edgedb.com/blog/buildi...

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Building with Effect and EdgeDB: Part 1 | EdgeDB Blog

Learn how to use Effect with EdgeDB to build complex functionality in a type-safe way.

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Gel @geldata.com · 13/12/2024

EdgeDB's year-end update: 6.0 is coming! - mailchi.mp/edgedb/edge...

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Gel @geldata.com · 11/12/2024

EdgeDB update time! Check out what the team has been up to over the last few weeks 👉 www.edgedb.com/updates

Screenshot from the EdgeDB website featuring "Dev Report #3".

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Gel @geldata.com · 09/12/2024

We just scheduled our next office hours! 📆 18th of December 🕐 10 am PST / 7 pm CET 📍 EdgeDB's Discord Make sure to drop your questions in the office-hours channel 👇 discord.gg/xu7zBGtp?ev...

Yury Selivanov @1st1.dev · 08/12/2024

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Running EdgeDB test suite is like...

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Gel @geldata.com · 05/12/2024

🆕 We've recently added a section on integrating EdgeDB Auth with @fastapi.tiangolo.com in our docs! 🔗 Check it out: docs.edgedb.com/guides/tuto...

Screenshot of the updated EdgeDB documentation page on integrating EdgeDB Auth, showing detailed steps for setting up authentication directly in the database schema, migrating changes, and configuring parameters. The interface features a dark theme with a navigation sidebar highlighting various topics like Deployment, FastAPI, and more.

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Gel @geldata.com · 05/12/2024

we have something for you 😊

The image shows an "EdgeDB Wrapped" presentation, similar to Spotify Wrapped, but for database queries. It features three cards:

1. "Your top query this year was: select User { * }"
with a comment "(at least it wasn't SELECT *)"

2. "You wrote 'filter' 2,845 times" with a comment "(Your SQL friends will be writing WHERE 🤯)"

3. "Time saved by not writing JOINs: 127.3 hours"

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Yury Selivanov @1st1.dev · 04/12/2024

Which one is more readable, SQL solutions (they are great) or EdgeQL? I'm biased, please help. 👋 (day 4 AoC solution)

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Gel @geldata.com · 04/12/2024

Btw, did you know we have a guide on integrating @trpc.io with EdgeDB? 👀 🔗 docs.edgedb.com/guides/tuto...

The image is a promotional banner for a guide titled "Integrating EdgeDB with tRPC". It introduces a tutorial on using EdgeDB with tRPC for a type-safe API. Key features include database interactions, API routing, and authentication, ensuring type safety between client and server. References include:

A monorepo template for the T3 stack, Turborepo, and EdgeDB.
A real-world example project utilizing EdgeDB and tRPC.
The first step highlights setting up EdgeDB as the application's database layer.

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Gel @geldata.com · 04/12/2024

Yes, this is rating R

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Yury Selivanov @1st1.dev · 03/12/2024

Silly me. Turns our Advent of Code challenges have two parts in them, and who knew, the second part is harder 🙈 I went back and implemented the second part of the second day challenge. This might be interesting to you regardless of EdgeQL, read if you like math or SQL too. 🧵

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Gel @geldata.com · 03/12/2024

We'll ship full SQL support in a few weeks! :) Thanks for replying, good stuff.

Gel @geldata.com · 03/12/2024

Curious, what supabase features do you value the most? Which ones the least?

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Gel @geldata.com · 03/12/2024

Takes time to build a database. EdgeDB is on top of Postgres which by itself is rock-solid, Surreal is on top of a popular key/value DB if I recall correctly. And we do have a lot of production users :)