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Issue 165 — July 28, 2017
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.”
Benjamin Cane   opinion  
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.)
Marco Slot   video  
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.
Tomasz Janczuk   story  
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.
Linode   sponsored  
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?
Vertabelo   tutorial  
A Practical Introduction to Elasticsearch — A beginner’s tutorial designed to get you experimenting with a range of Elaticsearch features.
Ismael Hasan Romero   tutorial  
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.
Datanami   story  
Running a CouchDB 2.0 Cluster in Production on AWS with Docker
Geoff Cox   tutorial  
Graph Databases: Living on the Edge — A new entry level introduction to the idea of a graph database.
Will Jaynes   tutorial  
Faster Pagination in MySQL: Why Order By With Limit and Offset is Slow?
EverSQL   tutorial  
Database Performance Monitoring Buyer’s Guide — This guide is designed to aid when evaluating database monitoring solutions for your unique environment.
VividCortex   sponsored  
Computing Statistics on Terabytes of Data on Multiple Machines — How Algolia computes metrics for 2TB of logs per day.
Rémy-Christophe Schermesser   story  
Building A Query Parser Over A Weekend
Ayende Rahien   story  
KubeDB: Kubernetes Ready Production-Grade Databases
KubeDB   tools  
Continuous data delivery with SQLizer — With the SQLizer API, keeping data centralized and up-to-date in your SQL database is easier than ever.
SQLizer   sponsored  
Cthulhu: Extend Redis with JavaScript Modules — Invokes commands from Redis in a JavaScript interpreter.
Marco Cecconi   code  
Presto Ethereum Connector: Query Ethereum Blockchain Data with SQL
Xiaoyao   code  
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