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GitHub Scales Its Rate Limiter Using Redis
Yesterday GitHub engineer Robert Mosolgo posted a detailed account of how GitHub scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis. GitHub migrated from an older Memcached-based rate limiter to a Redis-based one. According to Mosolgo, the new implementation has improved reliability, fixed issues for clients, and reduced GitHub's support load.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
At this year’s Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, a NoSQL database product to manage Cassandra-based workloads into Azure cloud.
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PayPal Standardizes on Apache Airflow and Apache Gobblin for Its Next-Gen Data Movement Platform
PayPal recently described how it standardized on Apache Airflow and Apache Gobblin for implementing its next-gen data movement platform. In a recent blog post, PayPal engineers detail how the existing data movement platform evolved into many tools & platforms in a complex and unmanageable ecosystem and their shift towards a new implementation.
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Using Language and Developer Friendly Data Structures with Couchbase
Couchbase APIs have evolved to provide programming language friendly data structures making it easier for programmers to incorporate into the respective programs. Some examples highlight how to use data structures with the Couchbase Python SDK.
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K8ssandra: Production-Ready Platform for Running Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes
DataStax recently released K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes. K8ssandra aims to provide a “production-ready platform”, and this includes automation for operational tasks such as repairs, backups, and monitoring.
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Distributed Key-Value Store etcd Graduates at CNCF
The CNCF announced the graduation of the etcd project - a distributed key-value store used by many open source projects and companies. Originally written at CoreOS, etcd was accepted into the CNCF incubation stage in 2018 and graduated in November 2020.
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Microsoft Announces Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced that Azure Cache for Redis would support multiple availability zones, expanding the availability and resiliency. The update to the service means customers can significantly enhance the availability of their Azure Cache for Redis instance.
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AWS Announces Redis 6 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 6 compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features such as Managed Role-Based Access Control, Client-Side caching and some significant operational improvements.
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RavenDB 5 Improves Distributed Time-Series, Document Compression, and Indexing
RavenDB, a NoSQL document database with multi-document ACID transactions, adds distributed time-series support, smart document compression, and enhanced indexing in the RavenDB version 5 release.
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Q&A about New Governance for Redis after Maintainer Salvatore Sanfilippo Steps Down
InfoQ caught up with Redis core team members and chief architect at Redis Labs, Yossi Gottlieb, and senior software architect at Redis Labs, Oran Agra, about the new governance board and the future of Redis.
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Couchbase Announces the General Availability of Its Cloud Database on AWS
Recently Couchbase announced the general availability of Couchbase Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). The Cloud NoSQL service is currently available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure and Google will follow by the end of the year.
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DataStax Announces Cloud Native Database as a Service and AIOps Tools
DataStax announced last month the release of Astra, a cloud-native Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) built on Apache Cassandra. They also recently announced an AIOps product called Vector that proactively monitors the health of Apache Cassandra clusters.
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Microsoft Announces a New Pricing Model Option for Azure Cosmos DB and More Capabilities
During this year's digital Build event, Microsoft announced a new consumption-based pricing model for Azure Cosmos DB called 'serverless' that is ideal for spiky workloads and complements the existing provisioned throughput pricing model.
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Jepsen Disputes MongoDB’s Data Consistency Claims
In an article, MongoDB claimed their database passed “the industry’s toughest data safety, correctness, and consistency Tests”. In response, Jepsen published an article stating that MongoDB 3.6.4 had in fact failed their tests; the newer MongoDB 4.2.6 has more problems including “retrocausal transactions” where a transaction reverses order so that a read can see the result of a future write.
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Redis Labs Partners with Microsoft to Deliver a New Redis Cache for Developers
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Redis Labs to deliver Redis Enterprise as newly, fully integrated tiers of Azure Cache for Redis. The enhanced service offering, currently in private preview, will provide customers with two new Enterprise tiers.
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