GraphQL: Designing a Data Language — GraphQL is a static-strong-typed data query language and runtime designed and used at Facebook. This talk introduces it, its impact on architecture at Facebook, and how it was developed. 39 minutes.
Lee Byron video
Embracing the Red Bar: Safely Refactoring Tests — Do you ever refactor your test code? Corgibytes’ M. Scott Ford explores a technique for protecting against the possibility of turning a perfectly valid test into one that always passes, regardless of whether or not the code that it covers is correct.
Using R to Detect Fraud At 1 Million Transactions Per Second — In Joseph Sirosh’s keynote at the Data Science Summit, Wee Hyong Took demonstrated using R in SQL Server 2016 to detect fraud in real-time credit card transactions at a rate of 1 million transactions per second.
Revolution Analytics story
PostgreSQL 9.6 Released — The next key release of Postgres. Key features include parallel queries, faster autovacuum, phrase searching in full-text search, and many performance improvements. Release notes here.
Data Engineers in Hot Demand — Once it was all about ‘data scientists’ but now ‘data engineers’, engineers who excel at working with and storing data at a large scale, are in heavy demand.
Zero to Hero Data Pipeline - From MongoDB to Cassandra — Migrating a data pipeline to Apache Cassandra in a short period without having any prior knowledge and doing all of the computation with Apache Spark. Just over and hour long.
Demi Ben Ari video
Elixir ETS Versus Redis — Redis is becoming an assumed part of many web stacks, in the same breath as your database. But with Elixir, do you need it? Do you even need a database?
