DB Weekly Issue 51: March 14, 2015

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DB Weekly
Issue 51 — March 14, 2015
Supported by
Thomas LeBlanc
Where applications evolve gradually, challenges to database development can arise. If designed too loosely, schemas can become harder and harder to refactor until they constitute a database ‘time bomb.’ Thomas LeBlanc describes how to avoid a few basic, but very common, database time bombs.


GitHub
You’d never guess the reason, but it’s a funny piece of history and an example of how simple things in code can have real life consequences.


Rackspace Sponsored
Everyone hates patent trolls, but we can only fight them one at a time. Solving the patent troll problem for everyone requires changing the system that aids and encourages troll behavior. Read more on the Innovation Act that was recently re-introduced to Congress.

Rackspace

Jason Dusek
GraphQL is a data querying language designed to describe the complex, nested data dependencies of modern applications. Essentially, a graph interface to relational data.


Pinterest


Treasure Data
Presto is an open source, in-memory distributed SQL query engine developed by Facebook.


Patrick Wendell
A powerful open source processing engine that provides easy-to-use APIs for operating on large datasets.


Biokoda
ActorDB is a distributed SQL database with linear scalability that aims to have no single point of failure.


Yorick Peterse
Mongo offers developers a lot of agility but data often has structure that needs to be managed in a more relational way. Here’s an interesting and detailed story of someone moving from Mongo to Postgres highlighting the why and how.


Jobs

  • Customer Data Engineer Rackspace is seeking a Customer Data Engineer. To do this successfully you’ll be switching hats often, from Systems Administrator resolving a configuration problem on a machine, to DBA digging into production databases to identify issues, to Software Developer troubleshooting customer code. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a broad range of technologies – MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, and Hadoop in particular. Apply here.
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  • Database Administrator (Blacksburg, VA) Rackspace is seeking a Senior Database Administrator in our Blacksburg, VA office. The Senior DBA will be responsible for maintaining the company’s database systems (currently MS SQL Server) including back-up, performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring critical events and documentation. Learn More.
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