InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next — InfluxDB is an open source time series database with no external dependencies that’s useful for recording metrics, events, and performing analytics.

Dumb Tricks to Save Database Space — Don’t store UUIDs as text, use smaller number types, use enums, avoid overusing JSON, and more.

Apache Hadoop 3.0 Alpha 1 Released — The first in a series of planned alphas and betas. This isn’t ready for production use.

Join us at DataLayer — Hear speakers from GitHub, Artsy, ZenDesk and many others as they discuss how their teams are optimizing the data layer to scale modern web and mobile apps. Reserve your seat now for this one day event on Sept. 28 in Seattle.

ScyllaDB Revamps NoSQL Database in 1.3 Release — The drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra boasts sub 1 millisecond 99% latency, 10x throughput of Cassandra, self-tuning, and more.

Code Generation: The Inner Sanctum of Database Performance — Drew Paroski, architect and engineering manager at MemSQL, reflects on how human readable SQL queries are compiled to native code and what benefits this brings.

Yahoo Open-Sourcing Pulsar, Pub-Sub Messaging at Scale — Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency pub-sub messaging system running on commodity hardware. It seems to fill a similar niche to Apache Kafka.

Elasticsearch, The Server — Reflections how Elasticsearch has evolved into a powerful search and analytics engine and how embedded Elasticsearch will no longer be supported.