Noms: A Versioned, Forkable, Syncable Database — Includes two implementations, one in Go, one in JavaScript. There’s also a post with the back story. Noms’ creator, Attic Labs, has also just raised $8.1m.

On Uber’s Choice of Databases — Last week Uber’s story of its move away from Postgres to MySQL got a lot of attention. This week we saw a few well reasoned responses from the Postgres community including this one.

Using AI to Build A Comprehensive Database of Knowledge — A 30 minute podcast interview with Mike Tung on large-scale structured data extraction, intelligent systems, and the importance of knowledge databases.

Create a new app, free. — Have an app idea and want to see if it’ll fly?

Introduction to SQL Server Stretch Database — SQL Server’s new Stretch Database feature provides a cross-premises database where part is in a local SQL Server and the remainder on Azure.

gh-ost: GitHub’s Online Schema Migration Tool for MySQL — gh-ost was developed by GitHub to provide an ops-friendly, auditable solution to changing MySQL tables on production systems.

Tips for Starting With AWS Redshift — Redshift is Amazon’s fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. Here are 3 tips and tricks learnt from starting up a Redshift pipeline.