Issue 165 — July 28, 2017
Eliminate the Database for Higher Availability — Ideas for reducing complexity and increasing availability by eliminating or reducing database dependency. In short, "When databases are not required, avoid using them."
Benjamin Cane opinion
Scaling Out (Postgre)SQL — A 15 minute talk on scaling SQL systems by distributing the computation of queries across many servers. (Note: To watch the video, click the yellow play button.)
Marco Slot video
Auth0's Move From MongoDB to DynamoDB — A deep look at the storage system behind Auth0’s serverless system and how they migrated from MongoDB to AWS’s DynamoDB.
Tomasz Janczuk story
Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for 5ドル/mo — Get a Linode server up and running in seconds. Simply choose your plan, distro and location and you’re ready to deploy your server. Use promo code DB20 for a 20ドル credit on a new account.
Linode sponsored
Build Your Own City: An Open-Ended Building Game Data Model — City-building and management games have been very popular for decades. If you were to build your own, what kind of data model could it use?
Vertabelo tutorial
A Practical Introduction to Elasticsearch — A beginner’s tutorial designed to get you experimenting with a range of Elaticsearch features.
Ismael Hasan Romero tutorial
GPU Acceleration Advancing the Evolution of Fast and Big Data — Data warehouses and Hadoop data lakes store huge amounts of data, but what about processing it? Today’s highest-performing solution is the in-memory database powered by GPUs.
Datanami story
Geoff Cox tutorial
Graph Databases: Living on the Edge — A new entry level introduction to the idea of a graph database.
Will Jaynes tutorial
Database Performance Monitoring Buyer’s Guide — This guide is designed to aid when evaluating database monitoring solutions for your unique environment.
VividCortex sponsored
Computing Statistics on Terabytes of Data on Multiple Machines — How Algolia computes metrics for 2TB of logs per day.
Rémy-Christophe Schermesser story
Ayende Rahien story
KubeDB tools
Continuous data delivery with SQLizer — With the SQLizer API, keeping data centralized and up-to-date in your SQL database is easier than ever.
SQLizer sponsored
Cthulhu: Extend Redis with JavaScript Modules — Invokes commands from Redis in a JavaScript interpreter.
Marco Cecconi code