MySQL Infrastructure Testing Automation at GitHub — “Every git request touches MySQL in some way” at GitHub so keeping their MySQL infrastructure well tested is critical. This post explains how they do that.

How Google's Spanner Evolved Into a SQL System — A dig into an ‘update’ paper on how Google’s Spanner NewSQL database has evolved in the past 5 years.

Analyzing Ethereum, Bitcoin, and 1200+ Cryptocurrencies with Postgres — Cryptocurrencies are fuelling a modern day gold rush. Can data help us better understand this evolving market?

[Free Tool] Network Analyzer for MySQL — VividCortex’s network traffic analyzer tool for MySQL is an easy-to-use way to gain insight into your server’s activity. Built for MySQL servers running on Linux operating systems, it is a non-intrusive, safe way to understand your query workload.

How can you navigate the database technology maze? — Data is fragmented across apps and platforms. Knowledge of tools and trends can keep your data centralized.

TimescaleDB: A Scalable Time-Series Database that Supports SQL — A new O’Reilly podcast featuring TimescaleDB’s Mike Freedman.

The Limits of the CAP Theorem — Explains how the CAP theorem applies to CockroachDB, and why consistency is the better choice for most databases.

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PopSQL: A Modern, Collaborative SQL Editor for Teams — Write queries, visualize data, and share your results.

cpp_redis: A Lightweight C++11 Redis client — It’s async, thread-safe, and with no dependencies.