Databases

“One big transformation we’re seeing right now is the slow agonizing death of MapReduce.” When a company gets big enough, there is so much data to be processed that an entire data

“There’s a lot of value in moving logic to the data rather than moving data to the logic. And the issue here is the data is a lot bigger than the logic.” NewSQL is a class of

“The world is increasingly disconnected, if you think about dealing with things like mobile devices that flap in and out of connectedness.” Continue reading…

“The more you’re comfortable with this idea that everything is going to fail, the more you realize that it's a natural process of distributed systems, and it helps you write and

“Everybody that sees SQL thinks its ugly and dirty and they want to try and rewrite it to be better. There’s a bazillion attempts to do this - I’ve tried it several times myself.