Data lakes, data exhaust, web scale, data is the new oil. Vendors are throwing new terms and analogies at us to convince us to buy their products as the market around data technologies grows. We change data persistence and transaction layers because “databases don’t scale” or because data is “unstructured”. …
This video covers the various approaches to sharding with the MongoDB open source NoSQL database.
You have a killer web application, hits are through the roof and your database is starting to get overloaded. Do I need to throw more hardware at the database? Should I shard it? Should I use replication? How do I access multiple databases via one Rails application? Join us as …
OK, so recently or in a near future your boss (or inner voice) will tell you “We need to figure out how we can utilize Big Data”. Maybe you’ve heard about Hadoop, but you haven’t really had the time yet to wrap your head around how to actually get more …
Learn how to architect high-performance applications and production workloads using Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Understand how to migrate your data to an Amazon RDS instance, apply security best practices, and optimize your database instance and applications for high availability.
This presentation gives developers insight into how to model data in Cassandra, how to integrate Cassandra and Hadoop, and how to build big data platforms suitable for both batch and real-time processing while maintaining low latency response times suitable for web applications.
