How Hardware Drives The Shape Of Databases To Come — A catch up with database pioneer Michael Stonebraker on what new compute, storage and networking technologies mean for the future of databases.

SQLCheck: Automatically Identify Anti-Patterns in SQL Queries — A tool that works with multiple SQL dialects and looks for common anti-patterns that lead to performance problems.

AWS Glue: A New Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) Service — A new managed service from AWS for ETL jobs. Uses Spark under the hood and in one region only for now.

State of Production Database Performance 2017 — In this report we explore and definitively answer whether MySQL or PostgreSQL is truly faster than the other.

A Primer on Database Replication — Increasing speed and resilience is great, but there are also costs and complexity associated with replicating databases, as explored here.

Migrating 1200 Databases From MySQL to Postgres — A company had a separate DB for each user so moving to Postgres demanded serious care.

PostgreSQL Gets a Fix for a Passwordless Authentication Flaw — Newly released versions of PostgreSQL fix three security vulnerabilities and over 50 other bugs.

Migrating Existing Datastores from Redis to ElastiCache — How an app with over one million users moved from regular Redis over to AWS ElastiCache.

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

Data Modelling a Clinic Management System — The latest in Vertabelo’s data modelling series.

How Pippa Built a Data Pipeline for 400 Million Podcast listens — … and cut its AWS bill in half while using Lambda and Kinesis Firehose.

Building a Stack Overflow Clone with Dgraph and React — Dgraph is a fast, distributed graph database system.

Eventn - Data Processing Microservices — Connect directly to a database and deploy RESTful services for ETL, SQL analytics or data processing.

SQLite: The Universal SQL Database Engine — It’s the most widely deployed database of all.