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Issue 96 — March 18, 2016
Featured
10 Easy Steps to a Complete Understanding of SQL — A walk through some of the fundamentals of SQL and the key concepts it introduces by being a declarative language rather than imperative or object oriented.
Jooq    tutorial   
Denormalization: When, Why, and How — So your data model was built by the book complete with normal form, but you still need to improve performance? Denormalization is a technique that should be considered.
Emil Drkušić
AWS Database Migration Service — You can move live, terabyte-scale databases to the cloud, with options to stick with your existing database platform or to upgrade to a new one.
Amazon    tools   
Compose Enterprise: Deploy databases in minutes — We've just launched the beta of Compose Enterprise, a new powerful option for using Compose which lets you deploy production-ready databases with ease within your own cloud clusters.
Compose.​io    sponsored   
Designing a RESTful API with Node and Postgres — A complete walkthrough of creating a RESTful Web service using Express, Postgres, and pg-promise.
Michael Herman    tutorial   
Building A Photo Search in A Weekend with Elasticsearch — Using Docker to get things up and running quickly, this tutorial series demonstrates using Elasticsearch as an image search system.
Sandeep Chivukula    tutorial   
Tile38: Geolocation Data Store, Spatial Index, and Realtime Geofence — It supports a variety of object types including lat/lon points, bounding boxes, XYZ tiles, Geohashes, and GeoJSON.
Josh Baker    code   
Turning The Database Inside Out with Apache Samza — An introduction to Apache Samza, a distributed stream processing framework, both in video and extended transcript form.
Martin Kleppmann
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In brief
Microsoft SQL Server for Linux Is A Brilliant and Logical Idea — “Microsoft appear to have decided that their future is in cloud, not the enterprise data centre.”
The Register    news   
Data Warehouse Market Ripe for Disruption, Gartner Says
Datanami    news   
Couchbase Raises $30m in Series-F Fundraising Round
The Register    news   
Crate Raises $4M Seed Round for Its Next-Gen SQL Database
TechCrunch    news   
Microsoft exec: Frustrated customers are lining up to ditch Oracle and jump on our cloud
Business Insider    news   
Monitor MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Postgres, and more — Datadog collects DB metrics for graphing, alerting, and full-stack correlation analysis. 14-day unlimited trial.
Datadog    tools    sponsored   
Graph Databases 101 — A quick, high level introduction to what graph databases are about.
David Mizell    tutorial   
A Quick Look At Postgres' Source Code
Kate Thompson    tutorial   
An Overview of Apache Streaming Technologies
Databaseline    tutorial   
Search for Emoji with Elasticsearch
Damien Alexandre    tutorial   
Analyzing Your Gmail Email Dump with SQL
Periscope    tutorial   
On-Time Flight Performance with GraphFrames for Apache Spark
Databricks    tutorial   
Descriptive Statistics in SQL
Jean-Nicholas Hould    tutorial   
Why Hadoop Must Evolve Toward Greater Simplicity
Alex Woodie    opinion   
Redis Performance Dashboard and Autoscaling from RedisGreen — Redis auto-scaling and analytics. Backed by support from engineers with years of Redis scaling expertise.
RedisGreen    tools    sponsored   
Slazure: A Runtime Data Mapper for .NET developers
SysSurge AS    tools   
mailcap: Email Capture and Archiving Server on RethinkDB — A SMTP server tied to RethinkDB for storage.
Bryan Morris    code   
Match: Scalable Reverse Image Search built on Kubernetes and Elasticsearch
Pavlov    code   
regrid: A File Storage System for RethinkDB Inspired by GridFS
Bryan Morris    code   
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