Issue 82 — December 4, 2015
Featured
sqlmap: Automatic SQL Injection and Database Takeover Tool —
An open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers.
Guimaraes and Stampar tools
DGraph: A Scalable, Distributed, Low Latency Graph Database —
A Go-based database built by someone who used to build distributed graph systems at Google. DGraph supports GraphQL as a query language and responds in JSON.
Manish R Jain code
Database monitoring at any scale — Datadog natively collects hundreds of DB metrics: system resources, connections, locks, transactions, indexes, and more. Pre-built, fully customizable visualizations, alerts, and full-stack performance correlation. 14 day unlimited trial.
Datadog sponsored
I Dreamed of a Perfect Database —
Some interesting thoughts from one of the most creative thinkers in the technology field right now.
Paul Ford
Scraping the Web with Nutch for Elasticsearch —
Learn how to configure the Nutch web crawler to feed data into Elasticsearch for querying.
Roland Kofler tutorial
How Redis is Used in Practice —
Redis Labs surveyed 116 of their users to see what different ways they were using the popular key-value/data structure database. Its raw speed was a top selling point.
Leena Joshi
Is The Cloud The Safest Place For Your Critical Databases? —
A look at how cloud services act as data-security aggregators by applying big-data principles to spotting and thwarting new data threats.
Morpheus
Using Graph Analysis to Decompose Monoliths into Microservices with Neo4j —
Thoughts on developing microservices and applying a graph processing technique to simulate the decomposition of service architectures into microservices.
Kenny Bastani
Jobs
What's More Lame Than A QR Code? — Spending time applying for jobs. Through Hired, companies reach out to you with interview requests, which include salary and other benefits upfront.
Hired.com
In brief
Troy Hunt news
Datanami tutorial
Periscope tutorial
Emil Drkušić tutorial
Using Ansible to Set Up PostgreSQL —
The entire process of using the Ansible conf management and task execution system to deploy Postgres.
Apcelent Blog tutorial
Laurent Doguin tutorial
Datadog tutorial
Test the Distributed Open Source RDBMS for Real-Time Big Data Built on PostgreSQL — Download CitusDB, the distributed PostgreSQL 9.4 database, to gain real-time insights
Citus Data tools sponsored
Onn El-Boher opinion
Caleb Sotelo opinion
Derrick Harris opinion
Mesosphere opinion
Kyle opinion
David Bolton opinion
Ching, Edunov et al.