"this list is restricted to blogs that have updated in the past two months and are at least four months old."

Postgres Guide is intended to highlight best practices and great features that exist within Postgres.

"This post describes an elegant and fast algorithm to perform exact string match."

"Dataset is a JavaScript client-side data transformation and management library. Dataset makes managing client-side data easy by handling loading, parsing, sorting, querying & manipulating data from all sorts of sources."

"The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge."

"Monster is Stripe's in-house framework for producing and consuming events. Whenever a user logs in, whenever a payment is received, whenever a cron job runs, an event is logged into our MongoDB event store. These events update aggregate totals, feed into fraud algorithms, and can be analyzed as a changelog of the system. In this talk, we'll discuss how MongoDB's unique features make it easy to implement Monster."

"In this paper, we identify and define a consistency model—causal consistency with convergent conflict handling, or causal+—that is the strongest achieved under these constraints."

"a database migrations tool for SQLAlchemy."

"As our database has grown, we have tried to iteratively deal with the scaling issues that come with rapid growth. We did the typical things, like using read slaves and memcache to increase read throughput and sharding our database to improve write throughput. However, as we grew, scaling our existing features to accomodate more traffic turned out to be much less of an issue than adding new features."