Currently the majority of cloud based database and data warehouse services are provisioned with fixed storage and compute resources. Resizing of resources cannot be performed without compromising availability and performance. This means service users typically end up with over-provisioned under-utilised expensive resources to accommodate possible...
In 2005 Stonebraker et al. published a paper that outlined 8 key requirements for stream processing architecture. These key requirements can be easily translated into building blocks of stream processing architecture. Although, this article dates before systems such as Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Spark,...
For those who are not familiar with MVC (Model–view–controller), MVC is a software architectural pattern primarily used for web development and to implement user interfaces. Ruby on Rails (RoR), Django, Spring MVC, ASP .net, Symfony, Zend, Express are some of the most popular...
In a recent InfoWorld article, FoundationDB's Stephen Pimentel explained the rise of the multimodel database. A multimodel database uses a single data store to support multiple data models. For instance, FoundationDB tries to map documents, graphs, and relational tables to a key-value data...
A recent white paper from Ghostery provides some interesting best practices for managing your site's marketing cloud. Following is a rundown of key take aways from the report including my own comments. Security * Audit all the tags and every pixel fired from your...