Issue 129 — November 4, 2016
Featured
MongoDB 3.4 Released: Aiming at the Enterprise — Enterprise scale functionality seems to be the focus of this release with features that embrace additional data models, operational and analytical processing, and elastic cross-region scaling.
MongoDB news
NASA Is Harnessing Graph Databases To Organize Lessons Learned From Past Projects — NASA is modernizing its ‘lessons learned’ database with graph database technology to enable it to make better decisions in the future.
Steven Melendez news
Redis Module Speeds Spark-Powered Machine Learning — The newly released Redis-ML component for the popular in-memory data store accelerates machine learning functions with Apache Spark.
InfoWorld news
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linode sponsored
S2Graph: A Graph Database for Transactional Graph Processing at Scale — An in-progress graph database undergoing incubation at Apache. Built in Java and accessible via a REST API.
Apache Software Foundation tools
Continuous MySQL Backup Validation: Restoring Backups — Divij Rajkumar explains how Facebook continuously tests the ability to restore databases from backups, ensuring they can quickly recover from an outage.
Facebook Code story
Dockerizing MySQL at Uber Engineering — A look at Schemadock, Uber’s tooling solution for managing its increasing number of MySQL clusters.
Uber Engineering story
Jobs
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Hired
In brief
DataStax Focusing Its Cassandra Developers Onto Its Own Enterprise Edition — Their work has been hugely valuable so far.
DataStax news
Matthew Lynley news
2016 MariaDB Developers Meetup Presentations — A round-up of slides and videos from presentations given at the recent 2016 MariaDB Developers Meetup in Amsterdam.
Daniel Bartholomew news
MariaDB 10.0.28 Now Available — Several important bug fixes, including security fixes.
MariaDB Foundation news
Webinar: ScyllaDB with Eyal Gutkind – Nov 9, 2pm EDT — Learn how ScyllaDB, a Cassandra drop-in replacement that can handle 1m transaction/node with 10X performance.
Compose sponsored tutorial
GOSimple tutorial
Ameer Rosic tutorial
Denis Gobo tutorial
Adam Vanderbush tutorial
Mohammad Faisal tutorial
Kevin Van Gundy tutorial
Christophe Pettus tutorial
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FullStory tools sponsored
MongoDB Cluster Migration with Zero Downtime — How Checkr migrated their clusters to Atlas, MongoDB’s new cloud service.
Sašo Matejina story
Get Ready for SQL Server 2016 — Trainer Garth Schulte highlights five of his favorite SQL Server 2016 features in this 15 minute video.
Garth Schulte video
Treasure Data Blog opinion
PostgreSQL 9.6 Improves Synchronous Replication and More — "PostgreSQL 9.6 has given users plenty of reasons to upgrade."
Josh Berkus opinion