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Issue 101 — April 21, 2016
Featured
SQL Injection Challenges — Six challenges for you to complete to learn about SQL injection vulnerabilities along the way. Deploy the challenge environment to Heroku (button included) and get going.
breakthenet    code   
Analyzing A Billion Taxi Rides with Google's BigQuery — A basic intro to analyzing 100GB+ of data on Google’s Cloud Platform if you haven’t given it a try yet.
Mark Litwintschik    tutorial   
Monitoring MySQL Performance Metrics — A guide to distilling the 300+ metrics MySQL provides down to something useful. Learn to track latency, throughput, connections, and buffer pool utilization.
John Matson    tutorial   
RavenDB: See How a Modern Web App is Built with a Modern Database — A modern dev stack for modern web apps. See how I built a new web app using RavenDB, Angular, Bootstrap and Typescript. Why these tools are an excellent choice for modern web dev.
RavenDB    sponsored   
Firebird 3.0.0 Released — Firebird, the cross-platform open source RDBMS (which forked from InterBase), now has significantly improved SMP and multi-core support, as well as improved SQL support.
Firebird    news   
Shift: An App to Run Online Schema MySQL Migrations — Built for use at Square, Shift lets you queue, run, and otherwise manage migrations through a webapp.
Square    tools   
Postgres-XL 9.5 R1 Released — A Postgres fork offering massively-parallel functionality for BI and OLTP style workloads.
Postgres-XL    news   
Jobs
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In brief
One Call to Rule Them All — DreamFactory's autogenerated REST APIs work across multiple databases on a multitude of servers. Free, open source platform.
DreamFactory    tools    sponsored   
Citus Launches New Postgres Database As A Cloud Service — Citus Cloud is built on top of AWS.
TechCrunch    news   
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports 9.5 — Postgres 9.5, the much awaited release with upsert support, is now available to use on Amazon RDS.
Kevin Jernigan    news   
Analytics Increasingly Seen Embedded in Apps
Datanami    news   
Solr 6, SolrCloud and SQL Queries — Solr 6 (the open source enterprise search platform) was released this month.
Rafal Kuć    news   
MySQL 5.7.12: A New MySQL Command Line Shell
Alfredo Kojima    news    tools   
Building Hypermedia APIs with Apache CouchDB
Benjamin Young    tutorial   
Secure Signed Cookies with PostgreSQL's pgcrypto — Generating and verify secure signed cookies from a webapp with just PostgreSQL’s pgcrypto library.
Nick Gauthier    tutorial   
10 Signs of a Bad Data Scientist
Datanami    opinion   
Monitor MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Postgres, and more — Datadog collects DB performance and resource metrics for graphing, alerting, and full-stack correlation analysis. 14-day full-featured trial.
Datadog    tools    sponsored   
MariaDB 10.2.0 Alpha Now Available
MariaDB Foundation    tools   
pgBackRest: Reliable PostgreSQL Backup and Restore System
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group    tools   
Hadoop Hive and Comparing 11 SQL-on-Hadoop Alternatives
Jethro Data    tools   
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