As the foundation of Bitcoin’s virtual currency, the blockchain technique is now the starting point for numerous new business ideas. The usual suspects surpass each other with superlatives how “disruptive” the Blockchain based startups will be. This talk looks first at the technical foundations and then examines the advantages and …
This session covers an innovative new way to enforce application data access security directly in the database, eliminating data security risks. Current three-tier models implement authorization logic in the application code, so it’s impossible to control access from other applications accessing the same tables or tools/users connecting directly to the …
In spring 2016 the first press reports regarding the “panama papers” were released. With almost 3TB of raw data this was by far the largest leak of data worldwide. This talk gives some technical insights who the ICIJ (International Consortium Of Investigate Journalists) worked with that amount of data to …
This session begins with an introduction to non-relational (NoSQL) databases and compares them with relational (SQL) databases. It also explains the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service.Learn the fundamentals of DynamoDB and see the DynamoDB console first-hand as we discuss common use cases and benefits of …
At Sky, we use Cassandra for database persistence in our Online Video Platform – the system which delivers all OTT video content to both Sky and NOW TV customers – and yes, that includes handling huge spikes in traffic both when there’s a big Premier League football match and when …
If your CSV, JSON, XML, database table, NoSQL store or Java Object has “20160704000000” in it as a String or even a number then you are part of the Big Data problem and a long way from Fast Data. The space is occupies is one thing but performance is another.
