MySQL High Availability at GitHub — GitHub uses MySQL as its main datastore for all non-git related things so it’s a critical piece of infrastructure that needs to stay up. This post digs deep on how they keep MySQL highly available.

Shlomi Noach (GitHub)

Streaming SQL for Real-Time Analytics — Streaming analytics will be a $13.7 billion market by 2021 according to one B2B research firm. Here’s a basic overview of the concepts behind the scenes.

Srinath Perera (Datanami)

6 Things DBAs Should Know About GDPR — Learn more about GDPR with these 6 articles and 5 simple steps. Read the tech guide now.

EnterpriseDB sponsor

Databases in 2018: The State of the Developer Ecosystem — The results of a survey of 6000 developers on what databases they use or are looking to use. MySQL and PostgreSQL lead the way here.

Jetbrains

The Impact of Virtualization on Your Database — Explores the main differences between AWS EC2’s i3.16xlarge and i3.metal instances, and asks whether removing the virtualization layer can bring about better performance.

Glauber Costa

Crate.io Announces $11 Million Series A Round — Over 30 people are working on CrateDB, a distributed SQL database designed for real-time analysis. Crate also announced Crate MDP, a machine data platform built on CrateDB 3.0.

CrateDB

Twitter Meets TensorFlow — Twitter explains how they’re bringing machine learning to their vast dataset via a modeling/testing/serving framework called Deepbird.

Nicholas Léonard and Cibele Montez Halasz

How to Optimize the Performance of MongoDB — Tips and tricks to optimize performance, particularly around schema design, indexing, replication lag and query design.

Onyancha Brian Henry

Webinar: A Guide to MySQL & MariaDB Performance Tuning — Learn how to get the most out of your database environment.

Severalnines sponsor

How to Benchmark Performance of MySQL and MariaDB with SysBench — Gives a good background of sysbench, and how you can use it to benchmark MySQL and MariaDB.

Krzysztof Ksiazek

Decoding MongoDB's Error Logs — A high-level introduction to the MongoDB error logs, where to find them and how to understand common issues.

Akash Kathiriya

Tune in for the MongoDB World Keynote Live Stream by Following MongoDB on Facebook

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Bistro: A Lightweight Column-Oriented Data Processing Engine

Alexandr Savinov

Redis Lua Scripting Security Vulnerabilities Fixed — An explanation of the bug and problems involved. Redis versions 3.2.12, 4.0.10, and 5.0-rc2 have been released to counter the issue.

Salvatore Sanfilippo