Cloudflare Unveils Workers KV, A Highly Distributed Database — Cloudflare has built a distributed, eventually consistent key-value store aimed at users of its Workers serverless platform.

Ashcon Partovi (Cloudflare)

ZetaSQL: An 'Analyzer Framework' for SQL — In layman’s terms, this is basically an SQL parser that other database systems (or SQL analysis tools) might use. Supply SQL, get back a predictable data structure you can work with, etc. These documents outline the SQL dialect it uses.

Google

Test Drive First Class CI/CD Pipelines — GoCD helps solve your CI/CD challenges with our first class pipelines, visualizations, and more. Now with our new GoCD Test Drive, you can quickly understand GoCD’s concepts and benefits that help your path to production.

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PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released — The draft release notes go into detail on what’s new. P.S. If you’re a Postgres user, check out our Postgres newsletter.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

VictoriaMetrics: A High Performance Time Series Database — Newly open sourced (under the Apache 2 license), VictoriaMetric supports PromQL, is happy ingesting historical data, and integrates well with Prometheus and Grafana. GitHub repo.

Aliaksandr Valialkin

SQL Server 2019 Community Technology Preview 3.0 — SQL Server 2019 is shaping up to be a big release with Linux users getting many more features, the ability to use Java code in SQL queries, improved Kubernetes support, improved graph SQL queries, plus a lot more. Ready to play? Downloads here.

Microsoft

Andreessen Pours $22M Into PlanetScale’s Database-as-a-Service

TechCrunch

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Invoca (Santa Barbara, CA or Remote) — Join our team of Operations Engineers deploying code to our production SaaS platform & public cloud infrastructure multiple times per day.

Invoca

Find a DB Job on Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers.

Vettery

12+ Months with 'Big Redis' — Abe has been running a large Redis deployment for the past year and has some candid observations.

Abe Winter

Optimizing the Casts Away in Presto — Presto is a distributed SQL query engine for big data, and one of its developers gives a (very) technical explanation of some cast-related optimizations coming to it. One for über database geeks or implementers only!

Martin Traverso

Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL — Introduction post for Hyperscale (Citus), a new deployment option for Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

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9 Tips for Faster SQL Server Applications — If you’re an SQL Server user, subscribing to Brent’s blog is a must.

Brent Ozar

An Overview of Sharding in PostgreSQL and How it Relates to MongoDB’s

Fernando Laudares Camargos

5 Reasons Why Apache Kafka Needs a Distributed SQL Database — Why a distributed event streaming platform could always do with a distributed SQL database.. and how YugaByte DB can help with this.

Sid Choudhury

dbKoda: An Unofficial, Open Source IDE for MongoDB — Built around JavaScript and Electron, dbKoda includes a rich text editor for queries with auto-complete and syntax highlighting, a real time performance dashboard, data import and export utilities, and more.

Southbank Software

MongoDB Atlas Gains Ability to Load Sample Data for Easier Learning — Atlas, MongoDB’s managed MongoDB database service, now includes a “Load Sample Data” feature to enable you to get up and playing with the service more quickly.

MongoDB

MitzaSQL: An Alternative Text-Based MySQL Client — This should particularly appeal to Vim fans.

Vlad Balmos

Sheetson: Quickly Turn Any Google Sheet Into a CRUD API

Ralph Ngo