OLTP

Online transaction processing, or OLTP, is designed for managing high volumes of short, fast, and concurrent transactions, such as data entry and retrieval operations. OLTP systems solve

Figure 1 Data flows to and from systems through data pipelines. The motivations for data pipelines include the decoupling of systems, avoidance of performance hits where the data is

Originally published May 24, 2018 When a user takes a ride on Uber, the app on the user’s phone is communicating with Uber’s backend infrastructure, which is writing to a database

When a user takes a ride on Uber, the app on the user’s phone is communicating with Uber’s backend infrastructure, which is writing to a database that maintains the state of that