Eliminate the Database for Higher Availability — Ideas for reducing complexity and increasing availability by eliminating or reducing database dependency. In short, “When databases are not required, avoid using them.”

Scaling Out (Postgre)SQL — A 15 minute talk on scaling SQL systems by distributing the computation of queries across many servers. (Note: To watch the video, click the yellow play button.)

Auth0's Move From MongoDB to DynamoDB — A deep look at the storage system behind Auth0’s serverless system and how they migrated from MongoDB to AWS’s DynamoDB.

Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo — Get a Linode server up and running in seconds. Simply choose your plan, distro and location and you’re ready to deploy your server. Use promo code DB20 for a $20 credit on a new account.

Build Your Own City: An Open-Ended Building Game Data Model — City-building and management games have been very popular for decades. If you were to build your own, what kind of data model could it use?

A Practical Introduction to Elasticsearch — A beginner’s tutorial designed to get you experimenting with a range of Elaticsearch features.

GPU Acceleration Advancing the Evolution of Fast and Big Data — Data warehouses and Hadoop data lakes store huge amounts of data, but what about processing it? Today’s highest-performing solution is the in-memory database powered by GPUs.

Graph Databases: Living on the Edge — A new entry level introduction to the idea of a graph database.

Database Performance Monitoring Buyer’s Guide — This guide is designed to aid when evaluating database monitoring solutions for your unique environment.

Computing Statistics on Terabytes of Data on Multiple Machines — How Algolia computes metrics for 2TB of logs per day.

Continuous data delivery with SQLizer — With the SQLizer API, keeping data centralized and up-to-date in your SQL database is easier than ever.

Cthulhu: Extend Redis with JavaScript Modules — Invokes commands from Redis in a JavaScript interpreter.