---
title: "#165: Eliminating the Database for Higher Availability"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 165
published_at: "2017-07-28"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/165"
---

Database Weekly 165   

This week's database news -[Read this on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/165) 

[Database Weekly](http://dbweekly.com) Issue 165 — July 28, 2017     

[Eliminate the Database for Higher Availability](http://americanexpress.io/eliminate-the-database-for-higher-availability/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Ideas for reducing complexity and increasing availability by eliminating or reducing database dependency. In short, _“When databases are not required, avoid using them.”_ Benjamin Caneopinion [Scaling Out (Postgre)SQL](https://www.dotconferences.com/2017/04/marco-slot-scaling-out-postgresql?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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 Slotvideo [Auth0's Move From MongoDB to DynamoDB](https://auth0.com/blog/how-to-migrate-from-mongodb-to-dynamodb/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A deep look at the storage system behind Auth0’s serverless system and how they migrated from MongoDB to AWS’s DynamoDB. Tomasz Janczukstory [Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo](https://welcome.linode.com/db-weekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=db&utm_campaign=db-weekly-primary) — 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. Linodesponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/dfc617d5.png)](https://welcome.linode.com/db-weekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=db&utm_campaign=db-weekly-primary) [Build Your Own City: An Open-Ended Building Game Data Model](http://www.vertabelo.com/blog/technical-articles/build-your-own-city-an-open-ended-building-game-data-model?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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? Vertabelotutorial [A Practical Introduction to Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/blog/a-practical-introduction-to-elasticsearch?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A beginner’s tutorial designed to get you experimenting with a range of Elaticsearch features. Ismael Hasan Romerotutorial [GPU Acceleration Advancing the Evolution of Fast and Big Data](https://www.datanami.com/2017/07/24/gpu-acceleration-advancing-evolution-fast-big-data/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — 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. Datanamistory [Running a CouchDB 2.0 Cluster in Production on AWS with Docker](https://medium.com/@redgeoff/running-a-couchdb-2-0-cluster-in-production-on-aws-with-docker-50f745d4bdbc?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Geoff Coxtutorial [Graph Databases: Living on the Edge](https://medium.com/high-alpha/graph-databases-living-on-the-edge-f6307a6c5088?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — A new entry level introduction to the idea of a graph database. Will Jaynestutorial [Faster Pagination in MySQL: Why Order By With Limit and Offset is Slow?](http://www.eversql.com/faster-pagination-in-mysql-why-order-by-with-limit-and-offset-is-slow/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) EverSQLtutorial [Database Performance Monitoring Buyer’s Guide](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/database-performance-monitoring-buyers-guide?utm_campaign=DB%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=DB%20Monitoring%20Guide) — This guide is designed to aid when evaluating database monitoring solutions for your unique environment. VividCortexsponsored [Computing Statistics on Terabytes of Data on Multiple Machines](https://blog.algolia.com/computing-statistics-terabytes-data-multiple-machines/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — How Algolia computes metrics for 2TB of logs per day. Rémy-Christophe Schermesserstory [Building A Query Parser Over A Weekend](https://ayende.com/blog/179010/building-a-query-parser-over-a-weekend-part-i?key=d159d6539eb845279c5c17259e5a7fd8&utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Ayende Rahienstory [KubeDB: Kubernetes Ready Production-Grade Databases](https://kubedb.com/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) KubeDBtools [Continuous data delivery with SQLizer](http://blog.sqlizer.io/api/) — With the SQLizer API, keeping data centralized and up-to-date in your SQL database is easier than ever. SQLizersponsored [Cthulhu: Extend Redis with JavaScript Modules](https://github.com/sklivvz/cthulhu?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) — Invokes commands from [Redis](https://redis.io/) in a JavaScript interpreter. Marco Cecconicode [Presto Ethereum Connector: Query Ethereum Blockchain Data with SQL](https://github.com/xiaoyao1991/presto-ethereum?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email) Xiaoyaocode    

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