Did you grow up with relational SQL databases? Are document-based databases (NoSQL) a bit of a mystery to you? This presentation compares terms and concepts, explains the benefits of document-based databases, and presents the 3 key ways you need to change your mindset to successfully use document-based databases.
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service. Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure regions worldwide.
Kubernetes now supports StatefulSets and CRDs, one of the next logical steps is to run databases on it. But why should I do that in the first place? How hard is it? What are the challenges? Is it production ready?
You wanted to use those fancy Postgres features so you wrote raw SQL. Some time and a few more features go by and now your app is littered with SQL strings. Keep the power and lose the mess by building composable query objects that leverage Arel, the query builder under …
This talk discusses how GraphQL and Serverless have drastically gained popularity and what problems they were made to solve. Then it explains how the two can be used together and provides a little demo with the Serverless framework.
When you examine the write path of nearly any kind of database, the first thing you find is a commit log: mutations enter the database, and they are stored as immutable events in a queue, only some hundreds of microseconds later to be organized into the various views that the …
