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Issue 115 — July 29, 2016
Featured
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL — Uber Engineering explains the technical reasoning behind its switch in database technologies from Postgres to MySQL - an uncommon direction to migrate in.
Evan Klitzke
'Amazon RDS SQL Server Just Changed Everything.' — You can now take native SQL Server database backups from your RDS instances and store them in an Amazon S3 bucket.
Brent Ozar    news   
Democratizing Databases — With a new tool, any competent spreadsheet user can construct custom database interfaces.
MIT News    news   
The importance of loose coupling in REST API design — You should never develop a REST API for any specific application. The best approach is to build a REST API platform that can be used and reused in a flexible manner for general-purpose application development.
DreamFactory    sponsored   
Real-World Redis Tips — Use a connection pooler, give your clients names, set an appropriate key eviction policy, and more.
Heroku    tutorial   
It’s The Data, Stupid: Why Database Admins Are More Important Than Ever — Specialized databases, cloud, and DevOps expand, not eliminate, role of the DBA.
Sean Gallagher    opinion   
Apache Spark 2.0 Released — Spark 2.0 focuses on significantly improved SQL support and the unification of the DataFrame and Dataset APIs. The next-gen Tungsten engine also compiles queries to make Spark 2.0 up to 10x faster than 1.x. Release notes here.
Reynold Xin    news   
Jobs
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In brief
Amazon Elasticsearch Service Now Supports Elasticsearch 2.3
Amazon Web Services    news   
A Complete List of New Features in MySQL 5.7
Morgan Tocker    news   
Free t-shirt when you deploy RethinkDB in July — This month only we're giving away a free limited edition tshirt when you deploy RethinkDB on Compose. All deployments are free for 30-days.
Compose    news    sponsored   
Creating Ranked Position Time Series with SQL
Periscope    tutorial   
How to Deploy a Highly-Available MongoDB Replica Set on AWS — A comprehensive guide to setting up your own cluster.
Elad Nava    tutorial   
5 Ways to Improve Performance of Spark Applications
Lewis Gavin    tutorial   
How Adding a UNIQUE Constraint on a One-to-One Relationship Helps Performance
JOOQ    tutorial   
How to Build An iOS Application with SQLite and GRDB.swift — How Swift protocols and immutability impact database accesses.
Gwendal Roué    tutorial   
Rolling Retention Done Right in SQL — ‘Rolling retention’ is a key business metric SaaS companies, in particular, measure.
Kiyoto Tamura    tutorial   
PostgreSQL, Backups and Everything You Need to Know
Compose Articles    tutorial   
The Road to CouchDB 2.0
CouchDB    story   
3 Tips for Selecting The Right Database for Your App
Cloud 66    opinion   
Why We Chose Aerospike Over Other Databases
Amey Patil    opinion   
6 Reasons You Shouldn't Use Cron to Schedule Your MapReduce and Spark Jobs
Matthew Rathbone    opinion   
Splitting ACID: Towards RISC-Style Database Systems — An interesting idea of splitting up ACID properties into smaller parts.
Joy Arulraj    opinion   
A Postgres Perspective on MongoDB
Shaun M.​ Thomas    opinion   
Graph Databases: Dataflow vs. Traditional Models — Thoughts on using differential dataflow to implement database functionality such as lookups and transactions.
Dubey, Escriva, Gün Sirer    opinion   
Way Better Log Management. — Move beyond ssh & grep: Search 100s of GBs/sec right from your browser.
Scalyr    tools    sponsored   
Deform.io: A Very Simple Database-as-a-Service
deform.​io    tools   
Fieldtop: Finds Near-Overflow Columns in MySQL Databases — There’s more info here.
Stefan Corneliu Petrea    tools   
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