A Peek at the Future of Data Management, Courtesy of Gartner — I wouldn’t normally lead with a research related item, but it’s been a quiet week! :-) Nonetheless, it’s interesting to see what Gartner is thinking about data and machine learning and “AI-powered data management automation” are top of the list – these are ideas that spread beyond databases and into all areas of data management generally.

Alex Woodie

⭐ Get 10+ Tutorials and Datasets for Time-Series Scenarios — Explore 10+ tutorials, ranging from analyzing crypto trends to DevOps & IoT monitoring, building awesome visualizations & more.

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Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse — Postgres isn’t usually the first ‘go to’ for creating a data warehouse but with some tweaking and best practices it can work pretty well at certain scales if you don’t want to move data into something like Snowflake or BigQuery.

Cedric Dussud

RonDB: A Fast, Low Latency MySQL-Based Key-Value Store — RonDB is a variant of MySQL NDB Cluster and available to run yourself or in a managed cloud form via Hopsworks. Here’s more on why you might use it. Or the GitHub repo.

Logical Clocks AB

Good Data Scientist, Bad Data Scientist — Succinct thoughts on what qualities or faults make a good or bad data scientist.

Ian Whitestone

Accelerate Database Performance Globally — Distributed just like a CDN, PolyScale intelligently distributes and caches MySQL and PostgreSQL data to the edge.

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The End of “Your Database”? (For Developers, At Least..) — “Today, I’m struck by how little developers need to think about the database at all.” An opinion piece by Netlify’s CEO, clearly focusing on the developer perspective to databases.

Matt Biilmann (SD Times)

How to Send Changes from DocumentDB to Amazon MSK via AWS Lambda — If you’re using Amazon’s MongoDB-esque DocumentDB and want to monitor changes and send them through to Amazon’s Kafka service (MSK), a Lambda function can do the trick.

Murat Balkan (AWS)

Django SQL Dashboard: A Database Dashboard for Django — The creator of the always useful Datasette data exploration tool has brought a lot of Datasette into the Django world with this system.

Simon Willison