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What is BigchainDB?

This Lightning Talk from All Things Open 2018 covers a blockchain database for a cybersecurity learning environment.

Sophia Armstrong 28 Dec 2018 58 votes

How to set up PySpark for your Jupyter notebook

PySpark allows Python programmers to interface with the Spark framework to manipulate data at scale and work with objects over a distributed filesystem.

Tirthajyoti Sarkar 12 Nov 2018 56 votes

Gitbase: Exploring Git repos with SQL

Gitbase is a Go-powered open source project that allows SQL queries to be run on Git repositories.

Francesc Campoy 07 Nov 2018 85 votes

Monitoring database health and behavior: Which metrics matter?

Monitoring your database can be overwhelming or seem not important. Here's how to do it right.

Katy Farmer 25 Oct 2018 66 votes

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Automating backups on a Raspberry Pi NAS

Turn your Raspberry Pi into a safe haven for your data.

Manuel Dewald 14 Aug 2018 92 votes 10 comments

The changing role of DBAs in an "as-a-service" world

Today's database administrators are more than the people who keep the lights on—now they are expected to play a strategic role in achieving the business' goals.

Peter Zaitsev 19 Jul 2018 79 votes

Building a data processing pipeline using the ELK stack and Ruby

How can we extract valuable data from application logs in a timely and cost-effective way?

Dmitry Polyakovsky 24 May 2018 82 votes

Getting started with SQL

Building a relational database using SQL is easier than you think.

Aaron Cocker 21 Feb 2018 123 votes 1 comment

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