A Comparison of Advanced, Modern Cloud Databases — A non-exhaustive primer of modern cloud database solutions like Aurora, Cosmos, and Spanner.

View Counting at Reddit with Cassandra and Redis — Reddit is so popular that even counting the number of views posts get provides an interesting technical challenge, as explained here.

Monitoring Databases: A Product Comparison — Percona’s Manjot Singh reviews five of the top database monitoring solutions on the market. Get his breakdown in this blog.

Amazon RDS Now Supports Stopping and Starting of DB Instances — Makes things easier and more affordable in development and test situations.

How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory DBMS — Slides, a paper, and a video on building a new DBMS given the changes to hardware landscape due to non-volatile memory.

How Pandora Uses Kafka — Kafka and related technologies have proven ‘critical to Pandora’s success’ in serving their 80 million active users.

Breaking the WiredTiger Logjam: The Write-Ahead Log — Learn how the WiredTiger write-ahead log orchestrates many threads writing to a single buffer without locking.

What to Expect When You’re Expecting Data: 4 Valuable Lessons Learned — Lessons include knowing the importance of driver selection, that query indexing is critical to smooth operations, and that DBaaS is valuable for startups.

AgensGraph: A Multi-Model Graph Database — A multi-model graph database, built on top of Postgres, for modern complex data environments which supports relational and graph data models at the same time.

$20 Free Credit on a new account. — Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Use promo code DB20 for $20 credit

PGObserver: A Postgres Monitoring Tool — An open source tool to help you monitor a Postgres database and get insights on stored procedures, IO stats, index usage, and more.